10 Things We Learned From Chris Jericho On Stone Cold's Broken Skull Sessions Podcast
Chris Jericho puts AEW over big time on WWE TV; talks Vince McMahon and more with Steve Austin.
Hell just froze over.
That's how it felt when WWE shockingly announced that AEW's very own Chris Jericho would be the next guest on Steve Austin's must-see 'Broken Skull Sessions' show. Nobody saw that one coming, and many even believed the company were playing some kind of late April Fool's Day joke on the world.
They weren't - this actually happened. Jericho sat down with 'Stone Cold' for a full two hours during WrestleMania 37 week, and the pair chatted about everything from All Elite Wrestling and Tony Khan to ECW, WCW, WWE and Vince McMahon himself.
This, bar none, is the best 'Skull Session' that Austin has conducted.
Jericho didn't overdo it with the AEW chat, to be fair. He was respectful of the platform he was on, and was happy to revisit familiar old stories (and tell a few new ones) in between sinking some shots with an old friend. The pair explained how the appearance had even come up in conversation to become with, and they explored Jericho's 30-year career in-depth.
Here's everything we learned from one of the most unexpected wrestling interviews of all time...
10. It’s Weird To Hear AEW Chat Immediately
Hearing Chris Jericho sit there and tell Steve Austin that AEW and Tony Khan changed the pro wrestling business all over again was always going to be weird. Anyone tuning in for this episode knew what they were going to get - 'Stone Cold' was not going to avoid the proverbial elephant in the room.
He broached the subject straight away.
Jericho played ball by speaking freely, and positively, about All Elite on WWE's platform. He put over guys like The Young Bucks, Kenny Omega and Hangman Page big style; Austin even chipped in to say that all of those workers are "really good". This was bizarro world stuff.
One could almost picture Vince McMahon just off camera. He probably (definitely?) wasn't there, but the WWE's patriarch's furrowed brow was burned into this fan's subconscious throughout the interview. Lord only knows what he really thought of all this AEW love on his own network.