Chris Jericho has taken on a lot of gimmicks over his time in AEW. He has gone from his original status as the world champion and leader of the Inner Circle to a sport's entertainer and the leader of the Jericho Appreciation Society. He has also taken on his old roles as the Painmaker and recently Lionheart once again.

It was with his reemergence as Lionheart, which Chris Jericho first used to challenge Jon Moxley for the AEW World Championship and will next battle Bryan Danielson at AEW All Out, that he made a claim. Moxley called Jericho the "last survivor of the Hart Dungeon" and Jericho has kept using the slogan to refer to himself. However, is Chris Jericho really the last survivor of the Hart Dungeon?

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How Did Chris Jericho Break Into Wrestling?

Chris Jericho with Lance Storm

Chris Jericho has been really open about how he broke into professional wrestling. He told his story brilliantly in his first book, A Lion's Tale: Around the World in Spandex. Jericho was a kid in Canada who loved two things — heavy metal music and professional wrestling. Over his career, he found tremendous success in both ventures. However, wrestling came first, and as Jericho wrote, he thought he had a perfect chance to break into wrestling by training in the Hart Dungeon. The Dungeon had some relentless trainers, with Stu Hart as the first, followed by Mr. Hito after Stu stepped down. Its location was in the basement of the Hart family mansion. This was not where Chris Jericho trained.

Jericho saw a chance to train at the Hart Brothers Training Camp. On his first day at the building where the training took place, he met Lance Storm, another young Canadian who wanted to wrestle. However, Jericho also said he got a rude awakening at the Hart Brothers Training Camp. There were no Hart brothers there to train him and the other students who brought their money to join the camp. Instead, referee Ed Langley and Canadian wrestler Brad Young served as the trainers. Jericho said that there was one day that Keith Hart showed up, but did nothing to help train anyone and just threw some students around before leaving.

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Was Tyson Kidd The Last Survivor Of The Hart Dungeon?

Tyson Kidd and Natalya

Chris Jericho went to the Hart Brothers Training Camp to train in 1990. However, Tyson Kidd trained at Stu Hart's Dungeon in 1995. Kidd talked about this on Total Divas, as it was where he worked alongside Harry Smith and became a close friend and confidant to the Hart family, eventually marrying Natalya Neidhart. Because Kidd trained there five years after Jericho worked with Keith's camp, and by this time, Jericho was already working all over the world, Kidd clearly trained after Jericho with the family. Some could argue that Kidd retired, so Jericho "survived" in the business longer. However, Harry Smith trained in 1994 with Bruce Hart and Davey Boy Smith, and he is still an active wrestler, so he also is closer to holding this title than Jericho.

Who Was The Last Person Stu Hart Trained?

The Hart Foundation

The question seems to come down to who was the last person trained in the Hart Dungeon. However, with Jericho talking a lot about Stu Hart stretching people out, who was the last man that he trained? Stu had retired from full-time training by the time Jericho, Storm, Kidd, and Smith showed up to get their start in wrestling. Stu helped train people in his later years, and he even worked with Natalya Neidhart, who didn't even graduate from high school until 2000 - when Jericho was already in WWE, making her clearly a later survivor than Jericho in the Dungeon. However, Natalya also had some interesting trivia for fans. "A lot of people don't know this but [Jim Neidhart] was the very, very last person that my grandfather, Stu Hart, trained," she said on Table Talk w/D-Von. "My grandfather would come down and watch some of the practices in The Dungeon. And he taught me how to throw a forearm. So TJ, my husband, Tyson Kidd/TJ was actually put in a lot of submissions by my grandfather, and my grandfather was a shooter."

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Is Chris Jericho The Last Survivor Of The Hart Dungeon?

Chris Jericho in AEW

Chris Jericho eventually received some training in the Hart Family Dungeon. He said that he got to do some work in the Dungeon with Mr. Hito working with him. With Hito as the successor to Stu Hart, this was a legitimate training session in the Dungeon, so Jericho has some claim to training there. The truth is that names like Natalya, Tyson Kidd, and Harry Smith all worked in the Dungeon after Jericho was already a wrestling star. However, the fact remains that this is professional wrestling. Everything done is part of a story, and nothing has to be based fully on the truth. Chris Jericho claims to be the final surviving student of the Hart Dungeon heading into his All Out match with Bryan Danielson. There is no reason that can't be true for the sake of the story. This makes him as arrogant as ever and gives him something to fall back on to prove his toughness, even if he never really was a student of the great Stu Hart.