Chris Jericho says he has no intention of ever leaving AEW or returning to WWE

Most people when they think of Chris Jericho, they think WWE legend.

The now-AEW star, who turns 50 next week, has been in pro wrestling for 30 years now and is cemented as one of the greatest of all-time.

This weekend the leader of the Inner Circle takes on MJF and if he loses, Jericho will have to let MJF into his stable.

Although Jericho has been the star leading the rise of AEW from nothing to number two wrestling promotion in the world, his near 20-year association with WWE won’t fade easily.

In fact, many fans expect that he will one day return to WWE and take his rightful place in their Hall of Fame.
However, according to the man himself, don’t be so sure.

Talking on his podcast, Jericho says he has no plans to exit AEW at all and explains why it’s a better place to work than WWE.

“Right off the bat, not to get into the specifics, but things that I have here in AEW I never had in WWE for 20 years,” he said. “Even something as simple as paying your expenses on the road, like any team does.

“If the Jaguars go to play a game in St. Louis, the hotel is paid for and ‘Here’s the trip,’ and ‘Here’s the team bus to pick you up and drive you around.’ That’s just the way it is. It’s not even a second thought, right? That’s how it is here in AEW as well, which it’s never like that in WWE.

“They still go with, ‘Here’s your plane ticket. You’re flying to Detroit. You’re working Detroit, Chicago, Cape Girardeau and St. Louis.’ So you rent your car in Detroit, you drop it off in St. Louis.

“You got to find your hotel rooms, you got to get a car that’s got a good rate for the drop-off. All this stuff. And those are your expenses and your responsibility to do that.

“And that’s another thing that I think people are just like, ‘Alright, are you kidding me? You really have to do that?’ So that’s the biggest difference.

“To me, it’s one of those things where I’m really glad that we were able to take a chance, and get this company off the ground and make it successful. And I have no intentions of ever going anywhere ever again.

“I like it here, I like working for the Khan family. And it’s been a lot of fun which, sometimes, it was not as fun in WWE. So it’s definitely a whole different vibe here.”