10 Things We Learned From Chris Jericho’s WWE To AEW Podcast

8. He Wasn't Interested In A Surprise Rumble 2019 Spot Anyway

Chris Jericho Royal Rumble 2018
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Any casual WWE fans listening to the podcast would've been disappointed to learn that Jericho had no plans to make a Royal Rumble 2019 return before signing with AEW. To some, such a move would've made sense. Why wouldn't Chris want that WrestleMania 35 season moolah?

To him, the Rumble berth was a bit of a snore.

Jericho said on the pod that he'd already done the surprise entrant gig in 2013, and he successfully managed to pull the wool over everyone's eyes by showing up in Phoenix unannounced back then. Doing the same in 2019 didn't get him excited. It was too predictable, and it wouldn't have been the progressive move he yearned for.

Basically, Jericho hadn't talked terms with WWE on a Rumble comeback anyway and he wasn't going to instigate the discussions. AEW didn't get in the way of any pencilled-in plans to show up in Arizona a second time, put it that way.

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