One of Chris Jericho’s most memorable AEW feuds was his lengthy story with Maxwell Jacob Friedman, which laid seeds that only paid off months later, and according to the veteran, took a year and a day to reach it’s conclusion.

“There were people like: ‘this feud is too long’ – why go to something else? Why? What else do you got going on?” he said. “That was the thing with Shawn Michaels and I. They wanted it to be a one month thing and [we were like] ‘what do you have coming up?’ ‘Nothing?’ ‘Well, what do you have coming up, Shawn?’ ‘Nothing.’ Well, then why are we ending this in a month? Let’s keep going!”

Jericho pointed out that his storyline with Shawn Michaels ended up becoming one of the greatest rivalries in wrestling, and while the veteran could easily be speaking from bias, the sentiment is often echoed online.

“That, to me, is the brilliance of wrestling,” he mused, explaining that sometimes you need to remove a component of a story for a long time, in order to let other parts play out, before picking it up again. “Until then? Just sit back and enjoy the show! It’s a show! It’s show business; it’s not real, it’s like watching your favorite TV series.”

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