Mike Tyson continues his guest appearance in wrestling on the TV show AEW Dynamite and ignites the next stage: He gets physical against Chris Jericho.
Mike Tyson had been comparatively tame in his wrestling guest appearance at the weekend – now he has made a surprisingly big effort.
On AEW Dynamite, the weekly All Elite Wrestling TV show, Tyson arrived with a big entourage that included other martial arts stars. And he started a giant brawl with show fight legend Chris Jericho, with whom he once had a fight on WWE.
Mike Tyson and Chris Jericho fight in the wrestling ring
Jericho and his group “The Inner Circle” made an appearance at the end of the show, dealing with their defeat in the main event Double or Nothing – a mad “Stadium Stampede Match” against Matt Hardy and the alliance “The Elite” in the empty NFL arena of the Jacksonville Jaguars.
The comedy-heavy segment reached its peak when Jericho was not satisfied with the various attempts to cheer him up that his colleagues Jake Hager, Sammy Guevara, Santana and Ortiz had in store for him. Instead, he demanded “Mike Tyson’s head on a silver platter”, pointing out that “Iron Mike” had knocked him down on WWE ten years ago when he was a guest on the flagship show there, Monday Night RAW.
Tyson was not long in coming, he came along with numerous companions, including UFC legends Vitor Belfort and Rashad Evans and Henry Cejudo, and posed with his shirt off in front of Tyson.
Jericho’s request to apologize for the outstanding bill fell on deaf ears – instead, Tyson pushed Jericho, who pushed back, and a big rowdy session erupted. Tyson and 49-year-old Jericho were eventually separated, but swore revenge on each other.
The 53-year-old Tyson is, as is well known, currently planning a boxing comeback for show purposes, and of course the scandal in the wrestling ring was not real, but staged according to the script. And it looks like Tyson is not finished at AEW yet.
The other highlights:
– The second coup next to the Tyson performance: The Revival, fired from WWE, made their debut on AEW, with the new name FTR. Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler, as the former Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder are now called, arrived with a pickup truck when the Young Bucks got into a fight with the duo The Butcher & The Blade after the opening fight of the show. Harwood and Wheeler initially hinted that they would go for the Bucks, but turned on the Butcher and Blade instead, making them official crowd favourites.
The other highlights:
– The second coup next to the Tyson performance: The Revival, fired from WWE, made their debut on AEW, with the new name FTR. Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler, as the former Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder are now called, arrived with a pickup truck when the Young Bucks got into a fight with the duo The Butcher & The Blade after the opening fight of the show. Harwood and Wheeler initially hinted that they would go for the Bucks, but turned on the Butcher and Blade instead, making them official crowd favourites.
– Debutant Brian Cage, who immediately secured himself a match for the World Title in Double or Nothing, underlined his dominance: The muscular ex-champion of Impact and Lucha Underground (and it cannot be said often enough: “murderer” of TV legend Lorenzo Lamas) celebrated a quick victory over Lee Johnson. Cage’s manager, Taz, warned champion Jon Moxley (formerly: Dean Ambrose at WWE) about Cage with the same words he once used to warn himself during his active time at the cult league ECW: “Beat him if you can, survive if he lets you!