So what do you think guys? Do you agree with my assessment that AEW has a major problem in Chris Jericho, and what do you think about my ideas to solve that problem? If you enjoyed the video your 👍are always appreciated!

It's called the 'fat Elvis stage' of his career.

Jericho's mic skills mean he could be a manager forever, and a great one too.

It's kind of depressing when you see a guy just get progressively worse and they don't realize it. Ideally, I'd like to see him disappear for a while and then a short run in WWE with a career ending match at WrestleMania or something.

He's become Hulk Hogan and those dudes he complained about in the 90's.

Chris Jericho’s physique is weird. How can someone be fat and flat and the same time 😂

Hulk Jericho-'That wont work for me brother'. 🤟

This is the exact same problem TNA fans had with Kurt Angle when he signed with the company: overexposure. Like Jericho signing with AEW, Kurt Angle signing with TNA was a big deal due to the sheer star power Angle brought with him, not to mention Angle's reputation as a wrestling technician. However, once the initial "wow" factor wore off, it became obvious that TNA was trying to shoehorn him everywhere for exposure purposes. They are not wrong from a PR standpoint, but TNA's booking was what caused a shift from promoting their homegrown talent to big name free agents, and Angle was by far their hottest name after Christian Cage. Plus, Angle was still in his late 30s when he signed with TNA, whereas Jericho is 49 when he made his first AEW appearance. At least Angle can still put on a show physically back then, whereas Jericho had to rely more on his character work now, since age has already caught up with his body.

Its kinda ironic, he feuded with Mickey Rorke, now he looks like Randy the Ram

Jericho is like the drunk uncle on the dance floor of your wedding that just won't go home

I think Jericho has always had a chip on his shoulder, because his entire career there's always been someone else who was "The Guy": Hogan, Austin, Rock, Triple H, Cena, etc. Now he's in a company run by a guy who's a massive mark for him and he's taking advantage to always be the center of attention. He's become what he always hated.

You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.

I remember when Jericho was on the Stone Cold podcast and he told Austin when he wasn’t performing up to his standards, he’d retire. I think it’s well past that point and has been for months now. How ironic that he called CM Punk a cancer on AEW because Jericho is the only parasite in that case.

Jericho was great but his time is over

Jericho has become the one thing he swore to destroy: Early 2000s Triple H.

Go away heat for Jericho??? It actually makes me sad

Where AEW started, who would've thought the fans would be begging for Jericho's disappearance before Orange Cassidy's

He looks like Mickey Rourke's The Wrestler at this point...

Its an addiction these wrestlers just cant give the spotlight up. They would rather die in the ring than to over give up their "spot"

Hes terrible in the ring now, so heavy, looks like hes gonna land on his head every lionsault

Chris Jericho was an asset when he debut with AEW, and he was doing well up until the JAS. There were hints of Jericho being over exposed around the end of the JAS, as that faction simply stayed together too long, and it felt like no one was truly benefiting from it. AEW leaning into the "Jericho Vortex" and trying to get "The Learning Tree" over is simply not working, and Chris Jericho is tarnishing his legacy. He simply needs to go away, and give the fans a break because we are burnt out.

It doesn’t help that Tony Khan wants to be everyone’s best mate and head/sole booker, someone more experienced or simply better wouldnt over expose Jericho so much

Lived long enough to see himself become the villain

In terms of his match quality, Cody Rhodes said that he himself felt he struggled to keep at peak performance due to the more relaxed schedule. I'm not defending Jericho by any means. I'm just saying if a younger guy was struggling to keep up the pace how is Jericho supposed to? He defo needs to take some time away or possibly retire, or as was stated in the video, both. He seems like the kind of guy who would want to do a retirement run properly. Get into as good a shape as he can and do the best he can in terms of quality and have the fans appreciate him instead of just wanting him to disappear.

Matt Hardy does this too! Putting him with Private Party destroyed them! Anyone who watched AEW from the beginning knows how over they were. Then, when they were put with Matt, people didn't know how to respond until they stopped responding at all. I've not watched AEW in the past few months; so, maybe there's been a turnaround, but this was a long time of nonsense. Jericho needs to go. And I don't like him on commentary either, quite frankly.

Fuck the Learning Tree bs, I'm ready for Hollywood Jericho

JR (or maybe it was Cornette) said it best: How can I miss you if you never go away? Jericho definitely needs that.

3:21-3:30 So basically he's HHH.

We can say it started with Kylie Rae, but that's more just where the dam burst open. People were starting to get tired of Jericho well before. The JAS (which always sucked and helped no one) lasted waaaaaay too long. He had a worst feud of the year candidate with Cole that killed all Cole's momentum. Kenny vs Callis was white hot....then Jericho decided he needed to be part of it and it instantly died off. Then we got to the Kylie issue and people finally said enough

Jericho should respond to the Please Retire chants the same way Big Show did: You want me to retire? Buy out my contract. I’ll be happy to. Until then, shut up.

I honestly thought he'd won the FTW championship to disappear with it since it's a pointless belt and would give Hook a chance to go for a real belt. I was surprised that he was back on Dynamite.

Jericho needs to follow in Flair's footsteps and avoid Flair's mistake. Come back to WWE for a retirement match against The Rock and then be a manager for younger stars. He has the charisma and star power to be more effective at getting people over as their manager than their opponent.

Unpopular opinion becky lynch is starting to become hulk hogan also.

Just don’t go out like Flair, Chris. Please. Do it respectfully, man.

I caught a bit of AEW the other day and Jericho was on the tv and I had to change it. Him and Hook.. that segment was too lame for me to watch.

People are really upset that Jericho beat an ECW legend's kid for a title belt that was only meant to be that ECW legend's reason to get a title match against then champion Shane Douglas in a promotion that's been long since dead.

actually, with all respect to you, i disagree with you except one thing that his ring ability decreased due to his age.

Jericho should just focus on being the next Paul Heyman now.

Jericho can do whatever the hell he wants.

Loving these modern takes you're doing, keep up the good work brother

Remaining relevant for decades without forever blocking titles, that's what makes Jericho a legend. I don't know any other wrestler who brought over more young talents. The comparison with Hogan, Flair, etc. is so ridiculous, who exactly have they ever helped other than themselves? Chris is one of the greatest wrestlers of all time, just his donations to old colleagues and the like. AEW also has a lot to thank Chris for.

When I saw AEW has a big chris jericho problem I thought you meant his gut

Once u hit about 45 to 50 it's time to retire..jericho is 53,I think it's time...these guys had there prime.. time for the younger generation to keep it moving..

He was the first UNDISPUTED champion, ever. Beat The Rock and Stone Cold in the same night!

I don’t want Jericho to retire atleast not yet. Seeing him retire at this point would only ruin his legacy. He needs to reach a high point again and then retire because genuinely Jericho is one of the best wrestlers of all time and he shouldn’t be remembered the way Ric Flair and Hulk Hogan are. I still believe he can do something good with his career but he just needs a break.

He doesn’t suck it’s just that people are sick of seeing Jericho every week and if he left tomorrow people would miss him in fact he would be welcomed back in the wwe with open arms

The Bubbly was just a dumb and dumber quote

Elite Jericho was when he was in the cruiserweight division in WCW. Him and Dean Malinkos beef was awesome.

They do have a problem, started when they hired him

Jericho is one of those guys who needs a person who will tell him when to rein it in a bit to get the best out of him, and sadly, he doesn't seem to have that at AEW.

I do agree he should take some time off, but his match with Takeshita in Japan last year was one of the best of '23.

Time to pull a Cody.

From the overexposure, to the lackluster matches, to the allegations that may or may not be true, Jerchio’s reception right now with the fans is not good. Jerchio just needs to take some time off & really do some self-reflecting. Stay off tv for about a year, go on tour with Fozzy, reinvent himself, get into shape & have 1 last epic run or just retire all together. He needs to do something to fix all this & quick! I don’t enjoy watching him ruin his own reputation like this. It’s heartbreaking for me as someone who grew up a Y2J fan. 💔

So we all dont want to gain knowledge from "The Learning Tree"? 😂

It's crazy how a decade ago he was being praised for putting so many younger guys over like Fandango, Punk, etc... But now he's just going full Hogan and putting nobody over..

for me jericho is one the stone cold or hulk hogan type all time greats wrestlers, but for me his run when stale after the oc feud and even more after eddie Kingston, he does not have to retire just take half a year off.

It's sad that Y2J was the peak of his character (at least for me)

He needs to take time off and reveinvent himself. Then go back and face hook as a heel.

Hard disagree. The learning tree gimmick is cooking and almost everyone that works with Jericho leave in better positions than when they were before. He just almost killed himself at the PPV so that Hook would look impressive even though hes still fairly green.

😊 you just made the list 📜

He’s at the age right now where he is either going to be hated or beloved until he’s gone. He needs to tread carefully.

This video made me like Jericho more

Jericho has gone downhill since he came to Aew.

I’m in a hell bent missionary to get a “Randy Robinson” chant going. It’s the name of the guy from The Wrestler. 😂

I agree with what you said 100% He needs a break and maybe a retirement angle like sting had

Jericho is still an asset

Why doesn't he stick with the Lion Tamer instead of the boring boston crab? ASK HIM!

Anyone ever consider the fact that these “new” stars are not all that over for Jericho to put them over. If I were a legend from the Attitude era, I wouldn’t put anyone over not named Roman Reigns, The Rock, Seth Rollins, Drew McIntyer or Cody Rhodes…:😂

I agree with you. I haven't enjoyed Jericho in AEW.

When Jericho was being kept under by HHH, Goldberg and Hogan, he come up with some of his best stuff, on the mic and in the ring. Back then he was hungry to prove he was as good, if not better than the office and the guys who kept burying him. One of the reasons I loved watching Jericho back in his WWF/WWE prime was the fact that he was constantly working on improving himself with regards to his mic work, ring work and general character/gimmick; it was great watching him upstage HHH who like Goldberg, Hogan etc, has grown lazy and didn't put in the effort they should have done due to backstage politicking and the stroke he had with the office. So many times you'd watch Jericho and HHH go at it and you knew that Jericho put in that extra effort as if to say "well, fuck you HHH, if you're going to go over in all our matches and try to bury me, then I'll put on a show", and that was one of the reasons why HHH was a cunt to Jericho, as HHH was intimidated and felt threatened because Jericho WAS better in the ring in almost every aspect. Sadly, he's now in a position where Tony Khan, out of gratitude for Jericho's work in AEW's early days, lets him do whatever the fuck he wants and it's hurting Jericho and AEW. Someone is needed to pull Jericho aside, read him the riot act and basically tell him that he's become the very same kind of wrestler who attempted to bury and derail his career when he was younger i.e. a fat and lazy Hogan and a HHH that relied on politicking, not talent, and needs to take time to get his head and body in better condition. Granted, he's in his 50s, there was ALWAYS going to be a decline in his physical ring work as that is just how ageing works, but he needs to get help i.e. time off to sort himself out and get his priorities straight if he still wants to be a physically performing wrestler and before he ends up completely tarnshing his reputation and legacy.

I think the learning tree has potential to be fun. The ending should be to elevate or create a babyface and leaving for a while

Yeah I do love Jericho, and I’m glad I got to watch him with my SON, but yeah, he just doesn’t want to go

Chris should be able to be on top long as he can. The young guys can still prove themselves, but saying the older guys gotta put young ones over has always been weird to me

Sadly this wednesday feel like it'll be no different. Shibata will most likely job to Jericho just so Big Bill show up and make him win the match and retain the title, it IS FTW rule too so the outcome is sadly obvious.

Jericho is in his 2017-2019 WWE era form. Squash the upcoming talent and start storylines and don’t finish them. Wrestling past his prime like the Undertaker. This Jericho would’ve been perfect in Vince’s 2017-2019 WWE.

It's a damn shame it happened cause i figured he'd know better or at least told people who book for him to not do this.....

To be fair the fact that he has been doing this for 25 plus years and just now people are starting to turn on him says a lot about this legend!

When they started saying that to big show he was almost done

I feel sad Jericho re-invented himself as mid-2000s HHH without the roided body.

Excellent video

Jericho has reached his expiry date he's 53 and looks every bit of it. You could argue R-Truth is 52 but he's aged gracefully almost like a vampire. He's another reason why AEW is getting worse not better at the moment.

I hope jericho runs with the hate and makes it an angle then whats funny all you clowns will be saying how great he is

Slating Jericho? YOU JUST MADE THE LIST!!

They chanted please retire at one ppv. If it continues then you have issues. He is definitely on the downward end of his career.

While I do think Jericho going away then coming back might be the best thing for him to do right now I don't think that'll change much once he comes back. The biggest issue with Jericho is that he has too much creative freedom which serves no one but him. Let's face it, LAX were a dominant tag team in TNA prior of leaving then they ended up as his lackys, Sammy Guevara has the same issue even though he can establish himself as a own heel, Jack Swagger has the looks but does need more improvement. Don't even let me get started on the whole JAS which litterally helped no one who was involved in it. My point here is that Tony needs to grow some balls and tell Chris "NO" when he comes up with a stupid idea. One of the reason Chris managed to do well in WWE is because he knew how to work under Vince's restraints and still managed to get over. His 2008 heel character was amazing and he singlehandendly carried Raw through 2016 with his "list" gimmick which ended in a great fued with Kevin Owens. I know I'm expecting much but I do want Chris to end his career well because I grow up on the guy and it sucks seeing him swallowed within his own ego.

I love Chris Jericho's Common man Heel gimmick in WWE

Jericho is a world class wrestler, I enjoy him,

If been watching CJ long enough to think he can overcome and make an angle out of it

You die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

People said the same thing about triple H and now they praise him. “Give it time to play out”- triple H, Nash, Bischoff, McMahon, and everyone producing wrestling.

well... I mean I get it, AND I actually DO agree; at this point in his career it seems like the only person who needs a faction in order to function more than Jericho is Luke Gallowss. Jericho has always been the "reinvent" himseslf guy, but in AEW "Le Champion", "The Painmaker", "The Wizard", and "The Learning Tree" have all just been synonyms for "I'm leading a different group of guys and have a different jacket". However the ticket sales and viewership aren't reflecting the notion that Jericho has Xpac Heat. It's completely anecdotal. People are still watching when he's on screen (or rather, the people who are watching continue watching rather than changing the channel). The only thing AEW could actually do to test this is just leave him off TV for several months without changing anything else and see if ratings improve. Unless something drastic happens he ain't going away.

I’m a huge Jerichoholic and he needs to go back to WWE like NOW!!! They’re the only organization that knows how to use him

The main problem is with Mercedes Mone

Jericho trademarking "the Jericho Vortex" because he hears the critics- yes. But to make a course correction- no. His actions since Blood and Guts vs the Pinnacle has been that fans dont know what theyre talking about and that criticisms are only from trolls so hes been trolling back

I’d like to see Big Bill turn out to be disingenuous about wanting to learn from the Learning Tree, turn on him and deliver a humiliating loss, chopping down the learning tree. Jericho leaves for a few months to recover and then comes back with a vengeance to prove he’s still got it.

Jericho is a legend but need to be a part time. Just to keep the attention on AEW and put young talents over

Jericho clearly overstay his welcome he needs to be part timer or manager type role

I agree

I think criticising his physique is harsh as it is just age. He just needs to retire. Should be a manager.

I still prefer watching Jericho wrestling than Omos. Making him winning the FTW title left me a strange impression, but since it's not the major title, it's not a big deal. And I don't think a WWE comeback would be useful to him.