Chris Jericho has responded to criticism of his fall from a cage on Dynamite, detailing how much work went into it.
More than a year after AEW was originally supposed to give fans Blood and Guts, it was finally able to pull the trigger on the match last week. Sadly, an otherwise brutal and tremendous match was overshadowed by its finish. MJF pushing Chris Jericho off the top of the cage and onto the floor below, which had naturally been prepared for such a twist in the match's tale.
The fall and the landing have been watched and dissected from just about every possible angle. The argument has been over whether the landing looked too staged, or if it was needed in order to prevent Jericho risking serious injury. Le Champion has taken a few days to digest the feedback and responded to what fans thought of his stunt.
"I thought the fall looked amazing, maybe because I was the one who took it and I knew how scared I was," Jericho explained on Talk Is Jericho. The veteran also revealed it was not a crash pad, but a number of items meticulously put together to make the fall safe but spectacular. "It was a black gym mat, about six inches high from the bottom, and it was a bunch of cardboard boxes... then there was plywood and decoration, like a flat piece of plastic, that looked like a steel grate. That was it."
The idea for the fall was thought of a month before the match, and a stuntperson was brought in to show Jericho how to take it. The same stuntperson who helped Kenny Omega and Sammy Guevara orchestrate their risky bump in the Stadium Stampede match. Apparently, the stuntperson wore a helmet when demonstrating how to take the bump. Jericho obviously didn't have that luxury.
The first-ever AEW Champion has watched the fall back a number of times and is very happy with how it went and how it looked. He also points out that his head came very close to hitting the stage lights, which would have been disastrous. The final point Jericho makes is, like most things online, those who didn't like it are probably just the vocal minority.