Chris Jericho Fires Shot At WWE Over Use Of Mics In Crowdless Era
He's got a point...
During a recent appearance on Barstool Sports’ “My Mom’s Basement” with Robbie Fox podcast, former AEW World Champion Chris Jericho commented on 'other shows' allowing wrestlers to cut promos with microphones in front of no live audience.
Both AEW and WWE have had to adapt to the current global situation and both shows have had very different approaches to the new environment.
WWE have refused to plant any staff or wrestlers in the crowd to generate any immediate atmosphere, whereas AEW have taken to surrounding the ring with a variety of their stars in order to pump some noise into the arena.
On top of this, WWE - or 'other shows' as Jericho referred to them as - have also continued to make their stars hold microphones during one-on-one promo segments. Jericho felt this was a bit odd when he was tasked with a one-on-one face-off with Broken Matt Hardy a few weeks back and so he decided to use the 'old laugh mic' instead, as it made things feel 'more like a movie'.
His full statement reads as follows:
"The first thing I remembered is that when I had the face-to-face promo with Matt Hardy and other shows have the guy standing there talking on a microphone to each other… I mean, if you have to use the microphone to talk to the camera… So I said why don’t we use the old lav mic and that way we can be more expressive. We’re one-on-one. It’s more like a movie – rather than ‘there’s nobody f*cking here. What are we doing, right?"
Do you think that WWE's decision to continue using microphones at this time during their in-ring segments is strange? Or is this just Jericho finding another way to throw shade at his former company?