{"id":317779,"date":"2025-12-01T05:07:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T05:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/317779\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T05:07:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T05:07:39","slug":"chris-jericho-allegedly-offered-wwe-retirement-storyline-as-aew-contract-nears-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/317779\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Jericho Allegedly Offered WWE Retirement Storyline as AEW Contract Nears End"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chris Jericho\u2019s AEW contract is up at the end of 2025, and WWE isn\u2019t sitting on the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report from The Wrestling Observer Newsletter, WWE has already made a move\u2014offering Jericho a retirement storyline if he chooses to return. While nothing is confirmed, the idea is reportedly on the table if Jericho decides not to re-sign with AEW. Dave Meltzer wrote:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis one is a Jericho decision and all hints are in the WWE direction. I know that WWE has offered him a retirement storyline and those in WWE have said that\u2019s what they\u2019d be interested in. Others expect him to be there early next year but nothing is confirmed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s worth noting Meltzer\u2019s reporting often leans on speculation, and no official statements have been made by Jericho or WWE.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Khan, however, made his stance very clear during a recent interview with Adam\u2019s Apple, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ringsidenews.com\/tony-khan-says-hed-love-chris-jerichos-last-match-happen-aew\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">saying he hopes Jericho finishes his career in AEW<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI absolutely\u2014I\u2019ve loved having Chris here and I love Chris in AEW and outside of the ring\u2026 I would love it if Chris\u2019s final matches\u2014eventually, whenever Chris someday would want to hang it up\u2014were in AEW.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For now, Jericho hasn\u2019t made any public decision about what comes next. But WWE is reportedly interested\u2014and the door may be open.<\/p>\n<p>Would you want to see Jericho close out his career in WWE or AEW? Drop your thoughts in the comments below.<\/p>\n<p>November 29, 2025 10:21 am<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Jericho\u2019s AEW contract is up at the end of 2025, and WWE isn\u2019t sitting on the sidelines.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,50133,75,11805],"class_list":{"0":"post-317779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-chris-jericho","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-wwe-featured"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317779","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=317779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}