Chris Jericho: AEW is ‘absolutely’ better than it was a month ago

Chris Jericho believes AEW is “absolutely” a better place than it was a month ago.

On Tuesday, Jericho was a guest on Busted Open Radio. Though CM Punk wasn’t mentioned by name, the conversation turned to how the backstage altercation at All In overshadowed AEW’s historic Wembley Stadium show for some fans.

Jericho addressed whether he was frustrated by how fast news of the incident between Punk and Jack Perry got out.

It’s wrestling though, man. It’s only rock ‘n’ roll. I think people like to focus on negative. I remember when I got into the fight with Goldberg in Milwaukee [in 2003], it was out on whatever version of the internet was then 10 minutes later… So it’s not like this is the first time there’s been incidents backstage. It happens. I just think now with social media that people want to jump on the negative.

Jericho said the backstage issues within AEW have been rectified. He noted that there are so many positive things going on in AEW, but sometimes that gets a little bit downplayed and the negative gets focused on.

We know the issues. The issues have been rectified. But the point is, it’s like — there’s so much positive things going on. And those things are always kind of a little bit downplayed. But it’s the negative that gets focused on. I know what’s going on in the locker room, and we know what areas we need to work on. I mean, negative press is negative press.

Once again, you still got, out of those 81,000 people [at Wembley Stadium], how many people know what even happened or even really care? You know what I mean, the hardcore, and the journalists, and the guys who do this care. And we should. But there’s also fans — not just 81,000, how about being number one on cable once again four weeks in a row? Number one — the number one show out of all shows [on Wednesday], is AEW.

So to me, that’s a huge positive that also gets kind of lost in the shuffle because somebody’s in a bad mood one day, or whatever it might be. It happens, it’s wrestling. We’re all gypsies, tramps, and thieves, and there’s gonna be issues from time to time.

Bully Ray asked Jericho if AEW is better now than it was a month ago.

Yes. Yes, absolutely.

AEW announced on September 2 that Punk’s contract had been terminated with cause following the All In incident.

Jericho is facing his protege Sammy Guevara on Dynamite Grand Slam this Wednesday night. It’s the first one-on-one match that Jericho and Guevara have ever had against each other.