{"id":315758,"date":"2026-04-09T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T01:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=315758"},"modified":"2026-04-09T07:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T01:30:18","slug":"chris-jericho-picks-aew-dynasty-opponent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/chris-jericho-picks-aew-dynasty-opponent\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Jericho Picks AEW Dynasty Opponent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<article class=\"news-post\">\n<div class=\"news-article\">\n<div class=\"slide-key image-holder gallery-image-holder credit-image-wrap lead-image-holder\" data-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlinginc.com\/2143725\/chris-jericho-picks-aew-dynasty-opponent\/\" data-post-title=\"Chris Jericho Picks AEW Dynasty Opponent\" data-slide-num=\"0\" data-post-id=\"2143725\">\n<picture id=\"pb3c36535248f809ed3b0bc5a31616ff6\"><source media=\"(min-width: 429px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlinginc.com\/img\/gallery\/chris-jericho-picks-aew-dynasty-opponent\/intro-1775698047.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source media=\"(max-width: 428px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlinginc.com\/img\/gallery\/chris-jericho-picks-aew-dynasty-opponent\/intro-1775698047.sm.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n                    <span class=\"gallery-image-credit\">AEW\/Lee South<\/span>\n                    <\/div>\n<div class=\"columns-holder \">\n<p>Chris Jericho will face Ricochet at AEW Dynasty.<\/p>\n<p>Jericho returned during last week&#8217;s &#8220;AEW Dynamite&#8221; for the primary time since April last yr, putting an end to any and all speculation over a possible WWE return and affirming his loyalty to the corporate. But he waited until Wednesday to deal with the group properly and set the wheels in motion for his next run, bringing a contract into the ring for his return bout at Dynasty on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Soon enough, Ricochet and the Gates of Agony emerged to interrupt him, with Ricochet imploring Jericho to not sign the contract and saying Canada sucks. Jericho said, &#8220;You are really bald,&#8221; and seemed to be talking in a well-known cadence that became clearer because the promo went on.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He finally made his match official with Ricochet after stripping the backboard from his contract to disclose his name on it, resurrecting the &#8220;List of Jericho&#8221; and putting Ricochet&#8217;s name on it to verify their contest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Now that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IAmJericho?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">@IAmJericho<\/a> has signed his recent contract, he&#8217;s challenged <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KingRicochet?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">@KingRicochet<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AEWDynasty?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">#AEWDynasty<\/a> and added him to a really special list!<\/p>\n<p>Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AEWDynamite?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">#AEWDynamite<\/a> LIVE on TBS + HBO Max <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EtVL2cWC2j\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/EtVL2cWC2j<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AEW\/status\/2042046909905334317?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">April 9, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The match was made official complete with a graphic because the show went on. It&#8217;ll be his first match in AEW since last yr&#8217;s Dynasty, losing the ROH World Championship in a Mask vs. Title match against Bandido.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AEW\/Lee South Chris Jericho will face Ricochet at AEW Dynasty. Jericho returned during last week&#8217;s &#8220;AEW Dynamite&#8221; for the primary time since April last yr, putting an end to any and all speculation over a possible WWE return and affirming his loyalty to the corporate. But he waited until Wednesday to deal with the group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":315759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[10436,1183,2162,4770,8845,4847],"class_list":["post-315758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-aew","tag-chris","tag-dynasty","tag-jericho","tag-opponent","tag-picks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315761,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315758\/revisions\/315761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}