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NEWS - Chris Jericho WWE Return INTENSIFIES! AEW Exit A Reality?

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🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Andy talks about the recent speculation and likelihood of Chris Jericho leaving AEW and returning to WWE...


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0:00.0

Hello there, my very good friends. On this wrestling news video, Chris Jericho to

0:04.6

WWE just became a very big story. I'm Andy, this is the news, and yeah, we're talking about

0:12.5

Chris Jericho. His name has been in the headlines a lot this past week or so, and it continues

0:17.5

because there's been some new developments, and now there's a lot more to this than the guy just going on Instagram and pressing like on a photo that somebody had made saying he might be leaving AEW.

0:29.4

So, hey, later on today as well, myself and Phil will be here with even more wrestling news.

0:33.8

But for now, this video is all about Chris Jericho once again.

0:38.3

So, earlier this week, I just kind of went over it there.

0:41.3

A lot of speculation on Jericho's A.A.W. status because he seemed to like on Instagram a post

0:48.3

linking him with an A.A.W. exit. Now, it's, you know, he put a little heart emoji on a thing, right? At first glance, it might not seem like a huge deal, but Chris Jericho's not dumb. He would have known that when he did that and people saw his name attached to this thing, people will be talking about it. Now, people are talking about it and there's all kinds of smoke to the fire now, which is pretty interesting.

1:13.4

So Fightful had reported last month, by the way, that unless Jericho's contract was frozen

1:18.7

by A.A.W. for time he has been away from TV, including the past four months. He hasn't

1:23.9

appeared since April. So unless they've added that time or other time,

1:29.4

Jericho's deal with AW is up at the end of this year.

1:32.4

There's only four months left in this year.

1:34.0

That's not a long-ass time.

1:35.8

On top of this, on Wrestling Observer Radio now,

1:39.3

Dave Meltzer, who always had some good Jericho stories.

1:43.5

I'll leave it at that,

1:45.1

confirmed that WW is interested in bringing their former world champion back.

1:51.5

So here's what Dave said.

1:53.2

I know from a WW standpoint that there is a lot of talk there about Jericho.

1:57.8

People are speculating the Royal Rumble. Nobody has officially said anything,

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