Chris Jericho Crowned First AEW World Champion At All Out
The Painmaker beats Hangman Page to become inaugural champ.
We finally learned the identity of AEW's inaugural world champion at tonight's All Out supershow, after Chris Jericho sensationally overcame Hangman Page in the night's main event.
A gruelling, bloody encounter, which saw Jericho nastily split open from just above the eye following a discus punch, ended when The Painmaker smashed the horse (who actually rode to ring on a horse) with his vicious Judas Effect elbow to lift the nascent promotion's utterly massive top title.
Being crowned AEW's champion means Jericho has now won the premier belts in each of WWE, WCW and Tony Khan's brand new promotion. It's quite the record.
It's also Y2J's first major championship since he bested The Undertaker, John Morrison, Rey Mysterio, CM Punk and R-Truth at to win WWE's World Heavyweight Championship at 2010's Elimination Chamber - courtesy of a Shawn Michaels assist.
Jericho's most recent title came in New Japan Pro Wrestling, when he bested Tetsuya Naito for the promotion's Intercontinental Championship at last year's Dominion. He lost the strap back to Naito at Wrestle Kingdom 13.7
As yet, we have no real hint as to who the new champs first challenger will be when AEW debuts on TNT next month. A certain Jon Moxley seems a very good bet.