Chris Jericho Shares When He First Came Up With Idea For Sting Showdown Segment

Chris Jericho and Sting shared the ring together for the first time in their careers last week on AEW Dynamite. 

It happened when Sting, who is aligned with Darby Allin, confronted Jericho, who had been trying to get Sammy Guevara to gang up on Allin with him. While speaking on the AEW-some Podcast, Jericho talked about the segment. 

“This is the very first time in both of our careers, which spans probaby 70 years combined, that either one of us have ever been in the ring together. Ever. Not for a showdown, not for a battle royal, nothing. We have never ever touched or been face-to-face in a pro wrestling ring before,” he said.

Jericho continued, “A few years ago, there’s a guy called Keith Mitchell, he was the longtime director of Dynamite, he directed Nitro for years, he directed World Class with the Von Erichs, he retired in 2021. We had a goodbye ceremony for him in front of one of the small Jacksonville crowds during lockdown. Sting was in the ring and they asked me to come to the ring. That was the first bit of time that Sting and I had been in the ring together. It was off camera, off TV. I remember thinking and talking to him, ‘this is crazy. We have never done anything. When the time is right, we have to do something.’ The time was right on Wednesday for the first-time ever confrontation, Sting vs. Chris Jericho.”

H/T to Fightful 

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