Chris Jericho has opened up about recent leaks from taped episodes of AEW. The issue became most apparent when Eric Bischoff’s cameo, at the August 5 episode, was posted on Reddit prior to broadcast.
Chris was speaking on his Saturday Night Special show. If you haven’t seen the show (full video above), Chris spends the whole show answering questions from fans. Questions cover all subjects from if Chris likes ABBA, to why he bled so much during a Smokey Mountain match.
Chris maintained that AEW knows who had leaked the material, apparently, the culprit is a former NXT star. Jericho says that they’ll never, ever, work for AEW again. While Chris didn’t reveal the name of the star, Le Champion did let slip that they’re male.
See below for a transcription of his comments:
“Social media is a different ball of wax, though. I think the amount of people who are on social media is very small compared to the overall people watching,” Jericho said. “For example, when we had the debate and Eric Bischoff was announced on Reddit — and we know the spy is, by the way. Oh, we know. He’ll never fucking be back in AEW. [An] NXT reject was a spy, so print that,”
He continued:
“I was like, listen, we can announce this or we can just not announce it and don’t worry about it and see, you know, the people that know will know and maybe they’ll watch if they weren’t going to. The people that don’t know, will still be surprised. That’s exactly what happened. People were super surprised that Bischoff was there and it worked out great.”
Transcription c/o Fightful.com