Double Or Nothing Is Everything

Talk Is Jericho

Chris Jericho

Tv & Film, Sports, Wrestling

4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

AEW’s inaugural event, “Double Or Nothing” is this Saturday in Las Vegas! Chris breaks down the card and the events leading up to this historic show, and shares what it means for his career, the WWE, and the wrestling industry as a whole. He explains the origins and development of his new finishing move, The Judas Effect (and what Dave Bautista has to do with it), and what fans can expect as AEW grows and makes it way to TV via TNT and ITV this Fall! He also has a very pointed and personal message for Kenny Omega.

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0:00.0	I'm talking to Cherico baby, talk to Cherico.
0:07.0	I'm talking to Cherico mama, talk to me.
0:13.0	Alright, so I guess a couple months ago I did a solo show talking about my journey from
0:21.7	the WWE to OliLite and kind of how I ended up signing with OliLite Wrestling.
0:28.5	And it's so funny because even though that was probably the beginning of the year January
0:33.6	February, still haven't had an official match with AEW yet.
0:39.4	Because we haven't had our show, that show obviously happens on Saturday, double or nothing
0:43.9	at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, 12,000 tickets sold in just under half an hour.
0:51.3	So it seems like we've been waiting forever for this to kick off.
0:55.8	But now it's almost here, it's so close and so many things going on, obviously the fact
1:02.3	that we just signed with TNT for the weekly show that starts in the fall.
1:08.8	The buzz definitely has never been greater.
1:11.6	Double or nothing starts at 8 p.m. Eastern with the pre-show is dubbed the buy-in that
1:16.2	leads us into the main card at 7 p.m.
1:19.1	You can check all this out through the Bleacher Report live streaming service for 49 and
1:24.2	99 as well as through traditional pay-per-view for the same price.
1:27.6	I believe fight TV is involved in there as well.
1:31.1	It's exciting to actually see this taking off and getting off the ground.
1:38.4	Because once again we're starting completely from scratch.
1:40.6	This is not something where there was 30 years of history, for example, like there was with
1:47.5	WCW that used to be of course in WA or the WWE that was the WWF that was the WWF when
1:56.3	Vince McMahon senior started the company.
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