Chris Jericho’s Mount Rushmore Of Opponents Includes WWE & AEW Legends

Chris Jericho came up with four names as his Mount Rushmore of wrestling opponents.

As a legendary pro wrestler with 35+ years of experience and more than 7 major World Titles to his name (6 in WWE and 1 in AEW), Chris Jericho has seen it all and done it all against the biggest names in the history of the business.

While most of Chris Jericho’s career was spent in WWE from August 1999 for about 20 years (with some breaks in between), Jericho also had a lot of success in AEW for over years, along with runs in WCW, Japan, and Mexico before he went to WWE.

At 55, Jericho is at an age when many wrestlers stop competing in the ring, but the man known as Y2J headlines in 2026, just as he has throughout his career.

Even though he appears to be under contract with AEW, the former WWE World Champion Jericho hasn’t been on AEW television since April 2025. In late 2025, there were rumors that Jericho would return to WWE in January 2026, but that hasn’t happened yet.

Chris Jericho Mentions Shawn Michaels And Kenny Omega As Legendary Opponents

In an interview with Untapped, Jericho mentioned four opponents he would put on his personal Mount Rushmore of rivals.

“If you’re talking about Mount Rushmore of opponents that I’ve had, I’ll put Shawn Michaels on there.

I will put — who else would I put on there that I had great feuds with and great angles with? I think Moxley would be in there from our our work that we did in AEW, and in WWE when he was Dean Ambrose. I loved working with him. Great intensity.

I had great chemistry with The Rock. It was very short because he left to do movies very early on. But when we worked together for about a year in the early 2000s, we never had a bad match or a bad angle or a bad promo segment. We were perfect foils for each other.

And then I think maybe Kenny Omega had put on there. We never had — same thing, we changed the business when we had our match at the Tokyo Dome, which at the time was crazy because it nobody ever thought it would happen. We’re both from the same small town in Canada called Winnipeg. And we pretty much packed the Tokyo Dome and the digital streaming was through the roof for New Japan Pro Wrestling. Which then led to Tony Khan seeing and deciding that he could form AEW, because there was so much demand for wrestling that was not WWE. So those are my four from an opponent standpoint.”

As mentioned earlier, Jericho hasn’t wrestled since April 2025, and it’s unknown when he’ll compete in the ring or where.