Inaugural AEW World Champion Chris Jericho has given insight into how Tony Khan structures pay-per-view events.
On a recent edition of his “Talk Is Jericho” podcast, Jericho discussed his and Kenny Omega’s Full Gear match with The Young Bucks and Khan’s structuring. He said,
“Any time you have a little bit of a street fight type thing, [it’s like] ‘Should you put a buffer match after it?’ And I was like ‘Tony likes to structure his cards with part 1, part 2, part 3.’ And part 3 is always match 7, 8, and 9, let’s say. And I don’t have a problem going on after that match. Somebody has to. You could’ve put on a nonsensical, nothing match, but to me, this is the way the card is structured. You want three exciting matches, and I thought if anybody could follow the street fight, we could. We did. It took a bit to get the crowd into it, but I was very happy with how we did it.”
Jericho & Omega defeated the Bucks, earning a shot at the AEW World Tag Team Champions. Had the Bucks won, Jericho & Omega would have had to disband as a team.
