Cody Rhodes on signing Chris Jericho to AEW, His early discussions with Tony Khan

Cody Rhodes

ESPN is featuring a lengthy interview with Cody Rhodes talking about the launch of All Elite Wrestling, signing Chris Jericho and his early discussions with Tony Khan.

Cody referred to Jericho as a “wrestling outlaw” and that he seemed to grasp the concept of going beyond just the ALL IN event last September in Chicago.

“For several years now the business has literally been changing, and it’s just ripe for this movement and this revolution and ultimately this alternative, which is what we’re trying to be. He (Jerihco) had the foresight to see that. The next piece of that puzzle was he brought us onto the Chris Jericho Rock ‘N’ Wrestling Rager cruise and the magic continued. I think he’s capable of making magic, and I think he wanted to make it with us.”

Cody also talked about having early discussions with Tony Khan about investing in a second ALL IN event after the success of the first show.

“A lot of what happened stemmed from me, Matt and Nick [Jackson, The Young Bucks] doing All In. We have just the time of our lives and get a lot of great what I guess I call “consumer feedback” from fans for Starrcast, Conrad Thompson’s event, and our event All In. It just seemed to be this kind of renaissance, Woodstock for wrestling, and I just had the idea of, “What if we did this more? What if we did this quarterly or what if we potentially did this weekly?” Everyone said you can’t do that, and I don’t believe that. The wrestling I grew up on was that every week. It filled your soul up with the goodness. And Tony was somebody who we discussed initially investing in a sequel show. Once I was no longer under contract to Ring of Honor, which was about two months before Final Battle, that’s when we started to get into the weeds a bit on that and talk about the opportunity that exists out there.”

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