{"id":560146,"date":"2026-04-02T12:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T12:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/560146\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T12:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T12:06:08","slug":"chris-jericho-opens-aew-dynamite-with-two-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/560146\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Jericho opens AEW Dynamite with two words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cagesideseats.com\/aew\/430066\/chris-jericho-aew-return-report-wwe-pro-wrestling-dynamite-winnipeg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">We heard this afternoon<\/a> that AEW\u2019s original Le Champion could return to the company tonight on Dynamite. And sure enough, the April 1 episode from the town Chris Jericho\u2019s from (you idiot) opened with Jericho\u2019s return to AEW, and pro wrestling in general, for the first time since last April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 55-year-old Winnepegger was greeted by a cheering crowd, many of whom sang some of his vocals from Fozzy\u2019s \u201cJudas\u201d as he made his way to the ring and soaked in the pop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After shouting out Winnipeg, Jericho had just two words for fans in Canada Life Centre and watching on TBS and HBO Max: \u201cI\u2019m home\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Did he mean Manitoba\u2019s biggest town, or AEW? From commentary, Nigel McGuinness made it sound like he meant AEW.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Us? We were kind of hoping he\u2019d pull an oldie out of his bag of gimmicks and not talk for the first six weeks of his comeback, and maybe he still will. Let us know what your reaction to Chris Jericho\u2019s AEW return is in the comments below, and get the internet\u2019s best play-by-play from Dynamite it Claire\u2019s Live Blog <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cagesideseats.com\/aew\/428904\/aew-dynamite-results-live-discussion-apr-1-2026-pac-vs-osprea\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We heard this afternoon that AEW\u2019s original Le Champion could return to the company tonight on Dynamite. And&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[5894,231214,88],"class_list":["post-560146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-aew","tag-aew-dynamite","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}