Chris Jericho

WWE's MVP and AEW's Chris Jericho reportedly had a confrontation at a Houston hotel last month.

According to Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter (h/t Michael Perry of Ringside News), the incident occurred on May 18 when AEW was in Houston for Dynamite, and saw MVP interrupt a conversation between Jericho and fellow AEW star Matt Hardy.

Those who witnessed the argument reportedly thought it was a joke at first, but things eventually got "tense." It ended when Jericho got on an elevator and said he "doesn't fight jobbers," which reportedly led to MVP "screaming about it in the lobby."

It is believed that the confrontation stemmed from an exchange Jericho and MVP had on Twitter in November 2020.

Jericho tweeted a conspiracy about how long it was taking to finalize the result of the United States presidential election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, which led to MVP replying and telling him to delete the tweet:

About five months later, MVP confirmed that Jericho had blocked him on Twitter.

Jericho and MVP were previously co-workers in WWE from 2007 to 2010 before Jericho took a hiatus and MVP got released.

They wrestled each other on several occasions during that time, including Jericho and Big Show twice successfully defending the WWE Unified Tag Team Championships against MVP and Mark Henry in 2009.

Jericho, who was a multi-time world, intercontinental and tag team champion in WWE, signed with AEW in 2019 and became the promotion's inaugural world champion.

Meanwhile, MVP returned to WWE in 2020 as a surprise entrant in the Royal Rumble match and stayed on to manage Bobby Lashley to a pair of WWE Championship wins. Currently, MVP is a part-time wrestler and the manager of Omos.

During his first stint in WWE, MVP was a two-time United States champion and held the tag team titles once with Hardy.

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Becky Lynch Wants 'No Smoke' From Chris Jericho

On Monday's Raw, Becky Lynch used an interesting phrase to describe herself, calling herself a "wizard" for her ability to take away Bianca Belair's championship in the blink of an eye.

As you might know, Chris Jericho is currently calling himself "The Wizard" over on AEW. While Lynch's comment was more of a one-off than building a new nickname for herself, she made sure to clear up the air and make sure there was no beef with Jericho.

Lynch's increasingly manic gimmick has been one of the best-running things on WWE programming since her loss to Belair at WrestleMania. Each week brings a new hairstyle, a new pair of sunglasses, a whole new wardrobe as The Man becomes increasingly frustrated with her inability to get back the gold.

Jericho is throwing fireballs in people's faces as part of a cosplay boyband and having blood-and-mustard-fueled matches.

Even if Lynch drops off the "wizard" line a couple times moving forward, there's more than enough room for these two different kinds of wildly entertaining wizards in professional wrestling.

For everyone's sake, let's hope they never change.

AJ Styles, The Miz Slated for SmackDown Appearances

WWE's brand split has been only loosely in place for months now, so it's no surprise when we see so-called SmackDown superstars popping up on Raw and vice versa.

As far as the go-home SmackDown for this week's Hell in a Cell, it appears we'll be getting appearances from AJ Styles and The Miz, per PWInsider. It's unclear whether they'll be having a match or a promo segment.

The Miz is currently on a promotional jaunt ahead of the season premiere of Miz and Mrs. while bouncing around a number of other feuds to add fuel to the fire. He's not currently slated to have a match at Sunday's premium live event, though one could be set up Friday night.

Styles is set to team up with Finn Balor and Liv Morgan to take on The Judgment Day. Odds are that feud will be furthered when Styles makes his appearance at the house he built.

MJF, AEW Relationship Update

Whew.

There's not really much else to say about the whirlwind of controversy surrounding MJF and AEW. MJF spent the entire weekend putting a scare into the wrestling world by not showing up to a meet-and-greet Saturday and scheduling a plane out of Las Vegas before eventually coming to the arena (late) and doing the job to Wardlow.

Tony Khan has refused to comment on the situation, and MJF's only public comments came via Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful that did little other than confirm we likely won't be seeing him for a while on AEW programming.

With the two eyes of the storm not giving out much information, all that's left is reporting sourced from people close to the situation. Sapp reported MJF and AEW management were set to speak before leaving Las Vegas, but no details on the contents of the meeting have been made available.

Following the departures of Sasha Banks and Naomi from WWE programming, this has been a time of talents making borderline unprecedented stands. In the case of Banks and Naomi, it's creative frustration. In the case of MJF, it's apparently long-simmering frustration with his contractual situation.

AEW and WWE have also handled these matters far differently. AEW's kept itself quiet, while WWE went on the offensive and ripped Banks and Naomi as the talent stayed silent.

Your mileage may vary on both strategies, but we'll see which of the three winds up being back on our televisions first.

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The Jericho Appreciation Society defeated Blackpool Combat Club in a 10-man Anarchy in the Arena match at AEW Double or Nothing on Sunday night.

Chris Jericho and Jake Hager combined for a double submission on Bryan Danielson as the match neared its conclusion. Jericho had Danielson trapped with a single-leg crab while Hager was choking Danielson out with the ring rope.

The referee called for the bell when he passed out.

That capped off a physical, bloody affair.

The basis of Sunday's bout was a feud pitting Eddie Kingston, Santana and Ortiz against the JAS comprised of Jericho, Hager, Daniel Garcia, Angelo Parker and Matt Menard.

Jericho formed the new stable after his singles feud with Kingston, which essentially caused the implosion of The Inner Circle.

While Hager stayed by Jericho's side, Santana and Ortiz aligned themselves with Kingston. That wasn't initially a fruitful move for Santana and Ortiz since the numbers advantage allowed the Jericho Appreciation Society to get the upper hand.

That all changed a couple of weeks ago when Kingston's longtime friend, Jon Moxley, confronted Jericho and Co. and made it clear that he would fight alongside Kingston.

Also, despite the fact that he and Kingston aren't necessarily close, Danielson entered the fray in support of his BCC stablemate in Moxley.

William Regal is the founder and manager of BCC, and while he is no longer a wrestler, he even got in on the violence by knocking out Jericho with a single punch.

That didn't sit well with Jericho, who eventually challenged Moxley, Danielson, Kingston, Santana and Ortiz to a 10-man tag at Double or Nothing. Specifically, Jericho called for it to be a Stadium Stampede match.

Mox accepted the challenge on behalf of his group but shot down the idea of Stadium Stampede, saying the match needed to be a brutal battle with no rules.

It ended up being precisely that, but BCC could not get their revenge as the Jericho Appreciation Society came out on top.

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