It looks like The Wizard almost replaced Punk, not Jon Moxley.
At AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door, Jon Moxley and Hiroshi Tanahashi will battle for the interim AEW World Title. We saw a face to face between the pair on Dynamite, but it was interrupted by Chris Jericho and the JAS. Jericho would announce a big 6 man tag for the PPV. After this, Mox and Tanahashi cleared the ring and had one more stand off before the segment ended.
While speaking with TSN, Chris Jericho revealed what he originally thought about CM Punk getting injured. Jericho stated that he hoped he would get to face Hiroshi Tanahashi at the Forbidden Door event.
“To be honest with you, when Punk got hurt, I thought maybe I would get the call to work with Tanahashi,” Jericho said. “Obviously, Mox is a great choice as well, but that to me is the status of what I should be doing in a New Japan situation. Don’t forget, we’ve got Blood and Guts three days later, so if I do something at Forbidden Door, it has to be something that leads to Blood and Guts. It has to be the next step in the story, so where does that fit in? Well, we have to use our heads and figure something out to make it fit in somewhere.”
“And you can’t really have a pay-per-view without Chris Jericho on the show or Eddie Kingston on the show or Bryan Danielson on the show at this point, especially with Punk and other guys out. I’m sure I’ll be involved in some capacity, but it’s going to have to be more of something that fits together with what’s going on at Blood and Guts, which probably means not so much a singles match and more of a faction-based match with the Jericho Appreciation Society at the crux of it versus the BCC or whatever New Japan guys we decide could fit in there.”
Chris Jericho to TSN
Of course, the night Punk announced his injury, Jericho expected Punk to relinquish and believed a new champion would be crowned at Forbidden Door. Chris was wrong, but as he mentioned, Jericho is a little busy building to Blood And Guts which goes down only a few days after Forbidden Door.
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