10 Best Matches AEW Still Haven't Booked
4. Chris Jericho Vs. Sammy Guevara
The Inner Circle have faded badly in storylines since Double Or Nothing, at which the Elite won the war that defined the first era of AEW Dynamite.
Chris Jericho has slipped into the upper midcard to at once play to the Orange Cassidy character and, you'd sort of hope at this point, gently further the notion to his stablemates that they are getting nothing from this arrangement. The main event spots, the TV time, the profile that has since diminished, deeper into 2020, is motivation for the Inner Circle to turn on their leader. That, ultimately, is why most alliances are formed: to be torn apart, in the end, and enrich a match with backstory.
And there is a great deal to the eventual, inevitable Chris Jericho Vs. Sammy Guevara match: Guevara in parallel to Jericho's recent flirtation with comedy has mutated into a vicious little prick removed from the comedic foil he was in 2019. He's totally convincing in the role of an unhinged heel, which bodes well for the tone of a prospective match loaded with such personal history.
Guevara using his effortless youth to do old Y2J spots, where the master can't quite as well these days, is a potent hybrid of heat and pathos.