Chris Jericho Reveals The One Thing He Would Change About His Match With Action Andretti

Chris Jericho reveals the one thing he would want to change about his match with Action Andretti.

At the AEW Dynamite special Winter is Coming last year, Chris Jericho came out for what was expected to be a squash match as he faced the lesser known Action Andretti. However, this would be anything but a squash match as Andretti put up a fight. After a Codebreaker kick out that shocked everyone, Andretti would continue battling, eventually shockingly pinning Jericho for the victory.

Speaking on his Talk Is Jericho podcast, Jericho reflected on the match and noted the one thing he would change about the match.

“I put it together where he looked really good, and then of course I hit him with the Codebreaker. Everyone knows that’s the finish…except for it wasn’t, and he kicks out. What I wanted to do, much in the same vein as Ishii [Tomohiro Ishii] and the chops and Mox [Jon Moxley] in the Walls of Jericho, is I wanted him to sell it through the entire commercial break, and I was just going to sit there with a surprise look on my face. He didn’t quite understand that, he started moving, I was desperately trying to tell him to stop moving, and we lost the moment. I still claim to this day, people were so surprised when he kicked out of the Codebreaker, if I would have sat there on my knees and had that look of surprise on my face, I could have sat there for three minutes and people went nuts. I tell you, it would have worked. I could probably never do it again, but at that moment, I just knew, ‘Don’t move, don’t move,’ and he moved. ‘Argh,’ but it’s okay,” 

 “It all depends on where you go with it. After, I threw a fireball in his face, we had some stuff with him and Ricky Starks, had him with Jericho Appreciation Society, get some wins. Then, the dust settles and now he’s working with Darius and Dante Martin, which is great, and you have to build yourself back up. He took the opportunity and ran with it, and then you come back down to earth and that’s just how the wrestling world works.”

Chris Jericho

Andretti has remained a common face on AEW and Ring Of Honor television, having competed on Collision regularly since the show’s inception.

H/T to Fightful

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