5 Best Chris Jericho matches in AEW

#1 The Elite (Kenny Omega, Matt Hardy, Hangman Page & The Young Bucks) vs. The Inner Circle (Chris Jericho, Sammy Guevara, Jake Hager, Santana & Ortiz) in the Stadium Stampede Match (AEW Double Or Nothing 2020)

The Stadium Stampede Match at Double or Nothing between the Elite & the Inner Circle will be chaos, & with the death of Vanguard 1 - DAMASCUS is ready to unleash fury & rage...starting with @sammyguevara on Dynamite at 8e/7c on @TNTDrama! pic.twitter.com/IEKD7H0P3A

— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) May 18, 2020

As previously mentioned, Chris Jericho's formation of the Inner Circle helped set up multiple months of storytelling in the early stages of AEW Dynamite. In the first episode, Chris Jericho aligned with Santana and Ortiz to defeat Kenny Omega and The Young Bucks of the Elite. They continued to beat them down until Cody and Hangman Page made the save, but they had backup.

Sammy Guevara and the debuting Jake Hager completed Chris Jericho's Inner Circle ranks as they made a powerful message to close the first Dynamite. From there, the group ran roughshod over AEW and would frequently get the better of The Elite. It looked like Blood and Guts would blow off this faction warfare, but the pandemic halted those plans.

With The Young Bucks and Hangman Page on the outs with one another, The Elite was fractured. Cody Rhodes would soon distance himself from the group to focus on his feud with MJF and the TNT Championship. During the early months of the pandemic, Hangman, Matt, and Nick were also at home, so this left Kenny Omega as the sole Elite member to fend off the Inner Circle.

Matt Hardy's arrival in AEW saw him align with the Elite to fight off the forces of the Inner Circle and draw the ire of Chris Jericho. On the May 6th, 2020 episode of Dynamite, Omega, and Hardy lost to Jericho and Guevara in a Falls Count Anywhere brawl thanks to the numbers advantage of the Inner Circle, which would lead to a challenge for one final showdown.

They put the Stadium Stampede match from “Double or Nothing” on the jumbotron during halftime of the Jaguars-Dolphins game! (via @NylaRoseBeast) pic.twitter.com/JigeKntIQ3

— SI Wrestling (@SI_wrestling) September 25, 2020

At Double Or Nothing 2020, The Elite faced The Inner Circle in the first-ever Stadium Stampede Match. It was a no-rules brawl inside the TIAA Bank Field Stadium in Jacksonville.

Hangman Page and the Young Bucks reunited with Kenny Omega and Matt Hardy to fight Chris Jericho, Sammy Guevara, Jake Hager, Santana, and Ortiz, but no one had any idea what to expect.

It was a truly amazing spectacle that set a new standard for cinematic matches. When wrestling was the only thing still running, fans needed an escape from the world around them. That is exactly what the Stadium Stampede provided. Some brawls went all over the stadium, from a ring at the 50-yard line to the bar to the outdoor pool.

Hangman Page rode into the stadium on a horse. Matt Hardy showed off his multiple different personas to dispose of Santana and Ortiz. Chris Jericho gave the Judas Effect to the Jacksonville Jaguars mascot before The Young Bucks took him out. AEW World Tag Team Champions Hangman Page and Kenny Omega reunited to get rid of Jake Hager.

For the Inner Circle, it came down to Sammy Guevara, who Matt Hardy and Kenny Omega chased in a golf cart up to the stadium's rafters. Omega then hit the One Winged Angel on Guevara off the rafters to the floor for the win.

This showed the creativity of the performers involved and AEW as a whole. Chris Jericho was one of the minds behind this daring encounter and deserved credit for how it turned out.

Although it wasn't a singles bout, this may go down as one of the greatest accomplishments of Jericho's career. That's why the Stadium Stampede Match at Double Or Nothing 2020 is the best Chris Jericho match in AEW.