Impact Wrestling is one of the toughest competitors of the WWE. The company started its journey back in the last decade. It was TNA (Total Nonstop Action) Wrestling back then.
The current WWE Hall of Famer, Jeff Jarrett was the founder of it. It turned out to be the nemesis of the WWE at one point.
But the glory has faded away in recent times. Money has been a big issue behind this. It is the prime reason most of the biggest stars have left the promotion. Dixie Carter lost the ownership of the brand at one point. Anthem Sports bought it later and gave the new name of Impact Wrestling.
The revamp procedure is going for the rival brand of the WWE. They need some major names on the roster to boost the TV ratings. We have spotted an effort on their part to show collaborations with the WWE. We have seen footages of Impact Wrestling contents on WWE Network contents.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebJn8_9rBaA
Now they are willing to take one of the major names from the WWE under their wings. Chris Jericho is that one superstar on their radar. Secoops.com confirmed the same after attending the Impact Wrestling press conference in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. One of the official names Callis attended the event to disclose two prime names they are focusing on.
These were his comments,
“There’s a young Canadian kid I like; we’d love to sign him, his name is Kenny Omega. Another is Chris Jericho.”
Kenny Omega is another veteran name of sports entertainment. He is currently under contract with NJPW and ROH promotions. It will not be wrong if we say that he is one of the marquee players that the Japan promotion has right now.
WWE had even shown interest to take him under their wings. But this is not likely to happen in the near future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOnabZ9m46s
So Impact Wrestling bidding for him as well as the veteran Y2J. The most significant news on this topic is that several Impact Wrestling stars will compete at Chris Jericho’s cruise later this year. Sami Callihan from Impact also called him out in recent times which is another indication of a new deal between the two parties.
Jericho is open to working with several other promotions apart from WWE right now. It is why we have seen him competing in the NJPW too in recent times. Impact Wrestling can have the same benefits too now that he is not under contract with the WWE.
