Big news on Chris Jericho and WWE SmackDown

Jericho will return to RAW as Guest General Manager

WWE has announced that six-time world champion, Chris Jericho will return to RAW on next Monday, the post TLC show from Detroit, Michigan. Jericho will be the guest General Manager. Also confirmed for next week’s RAW is the return of WWE World Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar.

Jericho posted this message in Instagram after winning the Slammy Award for Extreme Moment of the Year last night on RAW, he thanked Fandango for accepting the award on his behalf :

Wow exactly 6 years after I won my last #Slammy for #SuperstarOfTheYear in 2008, I picked up another one tonight for #ExtremeMomentOfTheYear for jumping off a 20 ft high #Steelcage against #BrayWyatt a few months ago! What a pleasant surprise and thanks to all of YOU who voted for me! And thanks to #Fandango for being nice enough go accept the award for me since I couldn’t be there… @wwe #Y2Jisbackbaby

With Santino Marella as the General Manager for Friday’s episode of WWE SmackDown plus Seth Rollins and Big Show vs. Ryback and Erick Rowan in the main event, the show drew only 2.494 million viewers, which is less than last week’s 3.054 million viewers with Daniel Bryan as General Manager.

SmackDown was #3 on cable for the night, behind Gold Rush and College Basketball.