More Backstage News on Chris Jericho vs. Kenny Omega and His WWE Status

 It had been previously reported that Chris Jericho will wrestle Kenny Omega at NJPW’s “Wrestle Kingdom 12” event on January 4, 2018.

One of the big questions on the minds of many fans is how this effects his status with WWE.

According to the latest edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, the concept of this match dates back to this past summer. Jericho saw how much attention surrounded the fight between Conor McGregor vs. Floyd Mayweather, and decided that the reason that it was going to be such a success, was because it was two top guys in a match people thought they would never get a chance to see.

He then tried to figure out how he could bring this concept to the world of professional wrestling. So he came up with the idea of doing a singles match with Omega, who had become the biggest star in the U.S. with a non-WWE pedigree, due to his win of last year’s G-1 tournament and his Tokyo Dome and Osaka main events with Kazuchika Okada.

You can see Jericho challenge Omega below:

Chris Jericho Coming WK12

“Y2J’s” last WWE contract was set to expire following WrestleMania this past April. At that time, the plan was for Jericho to go into WrestleMania as the Universal champion, and then lose the title at WrestleMania to Kevin Owens. However, plans changed, as the decision was made to have Bill Goldberg, rather than Jericho, win the title from Owens, and then lose it to Brock Lesnar.

That’s why Jericho vs. Owens turned into a program for the United States championship. Since the angle was going to well, he ended up signing a one-month extension to last through early May. As a result, he’s been a free agent for the past six months, contrary to a lot of reports published this past week.

However, many expect him back in WWE at some point in 2018; we could see him as early as the upcoming 25th Anniversary edition of “Raw.”

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