This past Saturday, Chris Jericho lost the ROH World Championship to Claudio Castagnoli at Final Battle pay-per-view. Despite losing his momentum, Jericho focused to put young talent over.
Last night, The Ocho faced the newcomer Action Andretti on AEW Dynamite. Andretti shocked the fans by defeating the former ROH World Champion.
On Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer explained the reason behind Chris Jericho losing to Andretti. Meltzer said Jericho sees Andretti as a future star.
“The story behind this is that Action Andretti had a match on one of the streaming shows (Dark) against QT Marshall, and Chris Jericho was watching the match, and decided at that moment, ‘This guy’s gonna be a star’.
And so he decided that he was going to make him a star. This was way back, he had all this stuff to do, the Claudio feud, these other matches… This match on this date, this was not something where it was decided like yesterday. This was weeks and weeks and weeks ago.”
H/T Ringside News
AEW President Tony Khan announced that Action Andretti signed a contract with All Elite Wrestling.
Congratulations! It's official! @ActionAndretti is ALL ELITE!
— Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) December 15, 2022
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