Top AEW Star Chris Jericho spoke with Monthly Puroresu on a variety of topics such as how he disliked former NJPW President Harold Meij so much that he even put a sign up on his room which said No Harold Meij allowed and that is because he just really didn't understand what he was dealing with as well as the big picture of putting up a show like WrestleKingdom and having someone like Chris Jericho on the show.
Chris Jericho said:
“The problem was Harold Meij, that was the problem. He just didn’t get it. I don’t think he even really understood what he was doing there. I even put a sign up on my room at, I think, the last Tokyo Dome show which said, ‘No Harold Meij allowed.’ Like, I just didn’t want to talk to the guy. He just didn’t understand. I don’t think he really understood what he was dealing with and what the big picture was. And how big, like for example, having Chris Jericho on the show could be. He was worried about the money I was making… Meanwhile, the money that I made was far eclipsed by the subscriptions that we sold and the tickets sold.”
Chris Jericho also spoke about how Harold Meij just didn’t know the pro wrestling business and how he even looked down on AEW in the past because he just didn't get how huge it was.
Chris Jericho said:
“He didn’t know the wrestling business. He just didn’t get it. He didn’t know the wrestling business. It was a strange call (not to work with us), and it just didn’t work… But I spoke to him about it like, ‘If you’re a marketing guy, you’d understand how huge it could be to have AEW, you know, in the Tokyo Dome.’ And how huge it’d be for New Japan to invade The Forum. Maybe he just didn’t get it, didn’t want to have anything to do with it. Almost looking down on AEW. What are you guys gonna do? And now… you can see what we have going on with New Japan.”
You can check out Chris Jericho's full comments at this link.
