AEW and NXT Wednesday Night Wars: 3 winners of night #4
Cody & Chris Jericho
If not for the angle that we’ll get to in the next slide, this would’ve been the best moment from either show. This was everything you would want in a non-wrestling segment, and it’s no surprise that AEW World Champion Chris Jericho and Cody were at the forefront of it.
Both men filled their roles as snugly as a foot fills a well-worn slipper. Jericho did everything you want a top heel to do.
He exhibited arrogance and false toughness when Cody threatened to jump the guardrail and fight Jericho and his Inner Circle stablemates inside the skybox they had reserved, as he knew that he had the numbers advantage — going as far as to call Cody a coward and an entitled millennial to goad him into an unfair fight.
He continued to puff his chest out when Dustin Rhodes and Maxwell Jacob Friedman joined him, but he quickly shed the bravado once Diamond Dallas Page evened the odds.
When the quartet made their way to the box, Jericho and his gang hid in a luxury suite and gloated behind the locked door because, again, they’re cowardly heels.
But once Cody’s scarf-covered fist punched through the glass and his crew got their hands on Jericho, Sammy Guevara, Santana, and Ortiz for a fair fight, they got the upper hand and forced Jericho to flash his ticket tell arena security to get Cody and the others out of there.
For his part, Cody showed great babyface fire and came across as smart for not falling into the heels’ trap, opting to wait for help to arrive.
All in all, this was an outstanding way to forward Cody and Jericho’s issues ahead of their match at Full Gear.