AEW: 3 reasons why Chris Jericho should not be AEW Champion

“It’s pro wrestling 101! When he loses the championship it will mean so much more!”

There could have been any ending to the main event of All Out and that first argument could have accurately fit. It is the wrestling version of confirmation bias. More often than not, wrestling fans don’t know what will happen at the end of the match. Whatever the outcome is, it can be framed as “IT’S PRO WRESTLING 101!!!” It’s a lazy take that fans trot out there whenever they are trying to make sense of a result that they can’t explain.

One of the more consistent ideas of pro wrestling is the older talent whose best years are behind them, making a younger talent mean more by the younger character defeating the older character.

AEW had an excellent chance to establish the character of Adam Page by having him defeat Chris Jericho for the AEW Championship. One of Jericho’s many strengths in professional wrestling is, in defeat, Jericho has the ability to make a new talent appear credible to the fans. Defeating Chris Jericho in 2019 still means a great deal. If you question that, then why Chris Jericho was defeated by Okada, Omega, Naito, and Kevin Owens in the last 3 years.

Being defeated by Chris Jericho did more damage to the character of Adam Page, than helped the character of Chris Jericho.

What’s done is done. Chris Jericho is the AEW Heavyweight Champion.

The age old question is wrestling is now rearing its head “whats next”? There could be a feud with Jon Moxley without the constraints of WWE programming. There could be a feud with Cody Rhodes. There could be a feud with Kenny Omega. All of those are great feuds. The challenge is that Jericho doesn’t need the AEW Championship in order to make any of those feuds matter.