10 Times Wrestling Feuds Crossed Over Promotions

10. Mike Tyson Vs. Chris Jericho

AEW has enriched itself by reviving classic wrestling standards lost to sports entertainment's monopolised abandonment of them: the Flair Vs. Steamboat judging system, to lend a Championship match sporting gravitas; the deft intricacies of peak Mid-South booking; the...

...seminal Guest Host Era of WWE Monday Night RAW?

In 2010, riffing on a 1998 bit as a cute callback and ratings ploy, Mike Tyson knocked out Chris Jericho. It was a moment booked to generate short-term publicity - virtually the opposite of how Jericho has weirdly folded it into AEW canon.

While it is beyond irritating that WWE is perceived as this untouchable entity that can only acknowledge itself - sorry, independent contractors in your mid-30s, it's the convention circuit for you! - this Jericho Vs. Tyson deal is still contrived and desperate. Le Champion didn't call him out randomly - Tyson happened to be there - but the use of an ageing celebrity to whom the company is in thrall is a very, literally WWE move.

Again, they don't own celebrity involvement, but the press release for the TNT partnership took WWE's approach and pummelled it like Michael Spinks. It's all a bit rich.

None of this tedious discourse on proprietary would matter, if the angle where white hot, but it isn't. Jericho can get anything over, and if he gets the Guest Host Era of RAW over, somebody needs to etch him into Mount Rushmore - the one with the f*ckin' Presidents on it.