4 Ups & 7 Downs From AEW Dynamite: Fight For The Fallen (August 17 - Review)

4. Chris Jericho Gives His Answer To Don Callis

More from Uncle Don and his family came next, with the 'Invisible Hand' taking the ring to welcome Chris Jericho out.

Abandoned by the bulk of his own appreciation society last week, a lone Jericho cut a coy figure before announcing that yes he would indeed like to get the old Winnipeg band back together. Calls' own shock was sold well, but he took the freebie and motioned them both out of the ring to get beers and talk about the good old days and theoretically bright future.

All until 'The Ocho' spotted the covered framed artwork in the ring. As Calls tried to hurry him away from it, Jericho became keener to see what lay beneath. When he was greeted with the sight of his own severed head in Don's hand, the fix was in. Jericho raged at his now-former pal, reneged on the decision to join The Family, and was subsequently decked and bloodied by Konosuke Takeshita and Will Ospreay in order to facilitated a supposed dream clash with the latter.

Let's dig in a little here; Jericho walks to the ring as the abandoned babyface, then turns heel by earnestly agreeing to join Callis. Callis is happy enough with that outcome, even though he's gone expecting rejection (?!) and planning an attack on a man he's courted for a month. Having heeled on the crowd and his former friends by linking arms with Callis seconds earlier, Jericho is supposed to be garnering sympathy as the victim of an attack, and goes into Ospreay's back yard in two weeks as the hero?

It's a mess save for the gorgeous painting, and all because a minimum of one of the wrestlers wanted the Wembley match rather than because there was a captivating story to be told.