{"id":28902,"date":"2018-10-19T21:03:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T01:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=28902"},"modified":"2018-10-19T21:03:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T01:03:03","slug":"chris-jericho-axs-tv-deny-involvement-with-new-super-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/10\/19\/chris-jericho-axs-tv-deny-involvement-with-new-super-promotion\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Jericho, AXS TV Deny Involvement With New Super Promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sescoops.com\/chris-jericho-jim-ross-barry-bloom-wrestling-promotion\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a report from SEScoops<\/a> stated they&#8217;d discovered that WWE Legends <strong>Chris Jericho<\/strong> and <strong>Jim Ross<\/strong> were looking into starting a new super promotion in professional wrestling, bankrolled by\u00a0billionaire\u00a0<strong>Shahid Khan<\/strong>, the Pakistani-American businessman\u00a0that owns the <strong>Jacksonville Jaguars<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Fulham F.C.<\/strong> of the English Premier League. Super agent <strong>Barry Bloom,<\/strong> who manages multiple wrestling stars, would also be working with the promotion, <strong>The Elite<\/strong> (Kenny Omega, Cody Rhodes, The Young Bucks, Hangman Page and Marty Scurll) would be joining that, and that <strong>AXS TV<\/strong> was working to get a TV deal in place for the companies debut in late 2019 or early 2020. But it didn&#8217;t take long for some of the Named to come forward with statements.<\/p>\n<p>The first came in a very succinct businesslike fashion from AXS TV, the reported TV rights interest. A spokesman for AXS TV <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlinginc.com\/news\/2018\/10\/rumor-killer-on-axs-tv-alleged-involvement-in-new-pro-646923\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">responded to Wrestling Inc.<\/a> after the rumor went viral, &#8220;There\u2019s no truth to the AXS TV component,&#8221; effectively withdrawing them from the report.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris Jericho<\/strong> wasn&#8217;t so businesslike. As word reached Chris Jericho, he simply responded on Twitter in the way only Chris Jericho can retort:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019m starting my own wrestling company? AWESOME! Im also starting my own movie studio w <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LadyGaga?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#LadyGaga<\/a>, my own carwash w <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bono?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Bono<\/a> &amp; my own bakeshop!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Jericho (@IAmJericho) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IAmJericho\/status\/1053444644812546048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 20, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Chris Jericho&#8217;s &#8220;good news&#8221; brought many of his famous friends out of the woodwork, obviously trying to get a few hand-me downs from Khan&#8217;s money.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019m opening a company that makes custom made coat hangers for hunchbacks if you\u2019re interested in investing.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; William Regal (@RealKingRegal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealKingRegal\/status\/1053446151981187074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 20, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillDeMott\/status\/1053449336015777792<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/LanceStorm\/status\/1053445139224350720<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, a report from SEScoops stated they&#8217;d discovered that WWE Legends Chris Jericho and Jim Ross were looking into starting a new super promotion in professional wrestling, bankrolled by\u00a0billionaire\u00a0Shahid Khan, the Pakistani-American businessman\u00a0that owns the Jacksonville Jaguars and\u00a0Fulham F.C. of the English Premier League. Super agent Barry Bloom, who manages multiple wrestling stars, would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":28907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[2790,107,248],"class_list":["post-28902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-north-america","tag-axs-tv","tag-chris-jericho","tag-jim-ross"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}