After a huge upset on Wednesday night’s AEW Dynamite broadcast on TBS, a new star is born.
Chris Jericho stated that he will wrestle a “tune up” match against a “jobber” on this week’s broadcast. The “jobber” was Action Andretti, who is a rising star that has been wrestling for about three years.
Andretti has wrestled on independent shows all over the country, as well as at AEW Dark tapings. On this week’s show, he looked great and came close to winning the match several times, but Jericho came out on top.
To everyone’s surprise, Andretti was able to roll up Jericho for the victory. Following the match, Jericho stared in disbelief as Andretti celebrated at ringside.
The announcers discussed Jericho’s loss to Claudio Castagnoli’s airplane spin at ROH Final Battle prior to the match, and it appears that Jericho may be going through some rough times until he regains his confidence.
Following the commercial break, Jericho was shown destroying furniture backstage, and Tony Khan declared Andretti to be All Elite.
Click here for complete AEW Dynaite results. If you missed it, you can watch Andretti’s big upset win below.
.@IAmJericho is LIVID.
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— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) December 15, 2022
Did we just witness the BIGGEST. UPSET. in the HISTORY of professional wrestling?!?! @ActionAndretti just BEAT @IAmJericho in his #AEWDynamite debut!!!!
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— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) December 15, 2022
Disbelief all around as @ActionAndretti just kicked out?!
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— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) December 15, 2022
A glimmer of hope for @ActionAndretti?!
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— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) December 15, 2022
Congratulations! It's official! @ActionAndretti is ALL ELITE!
Thank you to everyone watching #WinterIsComing on @TBSNetwork Wednesday Night #AEWDynamite TONIGHT! pic.twitter.com/b22U3v1da9
— Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) December 15, 2022