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“There’s a lot of unfinished business for me in New Japan” – Chris Jericho says he isn’t done with NJPW

Archie Blade
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Chris Jericho says he isn’t done with NJPW

Chris Jericho says he isn’t done with NJPW. The former AEW Champion named a list of dream matches he still wants to have with the NJPW roster.

Before officially leaving WWE and joining AEW, Chris Jericho had a brief stint with NJPW. He even won their IWGP Intercontinental Championship. He also appeared on their show with the AEW World Championship facing Hiroshi Tanahashi at Wrestle Kingdom last year.

Also read: Kenny Omega says Will Ospreay injured himself and vacated IWGP title because he tried to fill his shoes

While speaking to TSN, Jericho claimed that he wasn’t finished with the Japanese promotion. He listed a few names that he still wanted to wrestle against. He even suggested current AEW World Champion Kenny Omega could team up with him in the main event at Tokyo Dome.

Chris Jericho says he isn’t done with NJPW

“There’s a lot of unfinished business for me in New Japan. Jay White is one [potential opponent], [Minoru] Suzuki is another one that would draw big money. Kota Ibushi and [Will] Ospreay — those four guys I’d love to work with. I’d love to do a ‘Golden Jets’ team — Kenny and Jericho — versus [Kazuchika] Okada and Ibushi or [Hiroshi] Tanahashi and Okada or Tanahashi and Ibushi.

“I think that’s a Tokyo Dome main event right there. So there’s a lot of stuff I’d still like to do in New Japan and as soon as we can start going over there again, I’m more than agreeable to doing more work there. I really enjoyed the six matches that I had there in 2018 and 2019 and think there’s plenty of room for more.”

Hopefully fans will get to see Jericho fight in NJPW once again. For now, he is scheduled to be on Double or Nothing. His faction, The Inner Circle, will fight The Pinnacle, in a Stadium Stampede match. If the Inner Circle lose, they must disband as a team forever.

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Archie Blade

Archie Blade

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Archie is a WWE and UFC Editor/Author at the SportsRush. Like most combat sports enthusiasts, his passion for watching people fight began with WWE when he witnessed a young Brock Lesnar massacre Hulk Hogan back in 2002. This very passion soon branched out to boxing and mixed martial arts. Over the years he fell in love with the theatrics that preceded the bell and the poetic carnage that followed after. Each bruise a story to tell, each wound a song of struggle, his greatest desire is to be there to witness it all. His favorite wrestler is Shawn Michaels and he believes that GSP is the greatest to ever step foot inside the octagon. Apart from wrestling, he is also fond of poetry and music.

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