Chris Jericho discusses meeting with IMPACT!

Long before signing with All Elite Wrestling this month, it had long been rumored that Chris Jericho would wind up appearing for IMPACT Wrestling, mostly due to his relationship with Co-Executive Vice Presidents Scott D’Amore and Don Callis who he referred for the positions.

On the newest episode of Talk Is Jericho, ‘Y2J’ his signing with AEW, but also revealed that he did have a meeting with IMPACT and received a “great offer”:

“I gotta tell you guys man, I’ve been really impressed by IMPACT over the past year. I thought Don Callis and Scott D’Amore have really turned things around in that company and I really, really enjoy it and I thought long and hard about doing some shows there. I even had a meeting with Scott and Don in Toronto and Ed Norholm. The offer they made was a great offer. That’s something that’s funny when I hear, you know, ‘All these companies are vying for the talent, the free agents…WWE, AEW, Ring Of Honor, New Japan’, and somebody mentioned MLW. Dude, what about IMPACT? They’ve got money! They were gonna spend some money on Chris Jericho. We had some great matches planned with Jericho vs. Sami Callihan maybe or with Johnny Impact to Brian Cage…you know, Rich Swann, I’d love to work with Rich Swann.”

Jericho would continue:

“So I did honestly talk to IMPACT and really, really thought about going there and then Tony Khan came in with this offer that’s you know, the biggest offer I’ve ever been offered in my career and then you have to stop and think, ‘Okay. If you’re gonna get this offer then you know you’re gonna have some real focus. As big as The Bucks and Cody are…Hangman Page has some steam and all the guys that were kind of earmarked to go to All Elite…even if Kenny went there. He hasn’t gone there yet, but what if he did? So there’s a lot of different ways that can go here and when Tony kinda puts the money where the mouth is, now I’m like, ‘Well, I really have to think do I wanna make this jump’.”

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You can listen to the entire new episode of Talk Is Jericho at this link.