{"id":228403,"date":"2025-10-21T03:28:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T03:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/228403\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T03:28:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T03:28:15","slug":"chris-jericho-leaving-aew-joining-wwe-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/228403\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Jericho Leaving AEW &#038; Joining WWE Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/aew-wwe-chris-jericho.jpeg\" alt=\"Chris Jericho Leaving AEW &amp; Joining WWE Update\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    WWE\/AEW<\/p>\n<p>A new update has emerged from AEW CEO Tony Khan on the possibility of Chris Jericho leaving the promotion and returning to WWE.<\/p>\n<p>Jericho has been absent from AEW since April with his contract coming up at the end of the year, with the belief being that he\u2019ll exit the company and return to WWE.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on Busted Open today, Tony Khan provided the latest update on Jericho\u2019s status. He said:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cI love Chris Jericho. He\u2019s a huge part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allelitewrestling.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AEW<\/a>. He\u2019s been here since the beginning. I think we\u2019ll see what happens here in the coming months. But Chris is always a welcome big part of AEW we\u2019d always wanna have here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cI absolutely am so grateful to Chris Jericho for everything he\u2019s done. And you mentioned that AEW book looking at the history, <a href=\"http:\/\/wrestletalk.com\/topic\/chris-jericho\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Jericho<\/a> is a huge a part of that history. The very first AEW World Champion and somebody who\u2019s now a nine-time world champion, and has won several of those championships here with us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cSo I am very, very grateful to Chris, and Chris is always a very welcome huge part of AEW.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">If you use this transcription or any portion of it please credit WrestleTalk.com and link to this page.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll continue to keep you posted with further updates on Jericho\u2019s future as they emerge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlingmasterclass.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-436300 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760823129_75_wrestling-masterclass-9-stars-webp.webp.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"778\" height=\"128\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To make sure you stay up to date with all the biggest wrestling and WrestleTalk news, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@wrestletalk.official\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">follow us on Threads by clicking this link<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>                      <a href=\"https:\/\/wrestletalk.com\/author\/liam\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761017295_233_c03366d4bea508f17b6fca940d92f7861bba78091c07dcd3923391a8aad4bd2d\"  class=\"avatar avatar-96 photo\" height=\"96\" width=\"96\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"share\">Share this article with friends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WWE\/AEW A new update has emerged from AEW CEO Tony Khan on the possibility of Chris Jericho leaving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[79,49,48,50133,75,13015],"class_list":{"0":"post-228403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-aew","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-chris-jericho","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-wwe"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}