In All Elite Wrestling, tag team wrestling has been given a major focus thus far. This is great, as with teams like The Young Bucks, Lucha Bros, SCU, Best Friends, Dark Order and Santana & Ortiz, you have some of the absolute best teams in the world today. But there has been a very common complaint with tag matches, sometimes the rules of tag matches aren’t followed. There is too many situations where you have no idea who the legal men is, which is a pretty big issue. Many fans took issue with this along with Jim Ross, and Le Champion himself, Chris Jericho was someone who had enough.
Chris Jericho & The Backstage Meeting
On the Keepin ‘100 podcast hosted by Konnan, Jericho had this to say. ““I called a team meeting…the lack of tags and normal tag team wrestling psychology drove me nuts. It’s sort of making excuses for The Lucha Brothers because tagging in and out, they’re lazy, they don’t care. They walk in and out whenever they want and it’s not right. They would make excuses where they would say, “oh it’s lucha libre style.” That’s funny, I worked in Mexico for two years and guess how you make a tag in a lucha libre match? You stand in the corner and you wait for a guy to touch you and you walk in.”
Chris Jericho was especially critical of The Lucha Brothers, and even sat down to chat with Pentagon Jr about this. “Once we had a couple of talks with them, guess what they started doing? They started tagging. Maybe it was a habit or maybe nobody told them. You have a whole locker room of guys that have just worked Indies their whole career and they don’t know little things.”
The Importance Of Veterans
Things like this are why it’s so important to have veterans like Chris Jericho & Dustin Rhodes in a new company like AEW. There are many wrestlers who are still learning all aspects of pro wrestling, despite years of experience. It is many in the companies first time on major TV, while people like Jericho & Rhodes have decades of experience with that.
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