Winnipeg, Manitoba · CMLL · WAR · ECW · WCW · WWF/WWE · NJPW · AEW · 1990–present
Chris Jericho has been the first champion of two different companies’ flagship titles, twenty years apart — the only wrestler who can say it. On December 9, 2001 at Vengeance he beat The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin in one night to become the first Undisputed WWF Champion; on August 31, 2019 at All Out he beat Adam Page to become the first AEW World Champion. 9Intercontinental Championship reigns — the record, the ninth won from Rey Mysterio in 2009Around those bookends: a record nine Intercontinental Championship reigns, two ROH World Championships, an IWGP Intercontinental Championship, the FTW title, a platinum-selling metal band, and more full-scale reinventions than any wrestler of his era. He turned 55 in November 2025 and is an active AEW wrestler as of August 31, 2026 — one day after losing the Casino Gauntlet at All In: London.
The long version of the career is a study in leaving at the right time: Winnipeg to Calgary’s Hart Brothers school, debut October 2, 1990; Mexico, Germany and Japan’s WAR promotion; ECW; three years of being misused in WCW while inventing the conspiracy-victim heel; the August 9, 1999 WWF debut interrupting The Rock; the 2008 Shawn Michaels feud that produced the suit-wearing sociopath most wrestlers still copy when they need a serious heel; the List, the scarf, the Festival of Friendship. 182days as the inaugural AEW World Champion — Le Champion is the reason the company’s first year workedThen the pivot nobody his age had tried: Wrestle Kingdom 12 against Kenny Omega on January 4, 2018 as the Painmaker, and in 2019 the leap to the AEW startup, where the Inner Circle, “a little bit of the bubbly” and Judas sung by twenty thousand people turned him into the promotion’s founding authority figure and its first champion.
The last two years are the strangest chapter. The Learning Tree run — 2024’s deliberately insufferable mentor gimmick with Big Bill and Bryan Keith — won him the FTW title and a second ROH World Championship in the October 23, 2024 Ladder War, before Bandido took the belt in a title-versus-mask match at Dynasty on April 6, 2025. Then: nothing. He vanished from AEW television for a year while his contract quietly ran on — reportedly frozen during the absence — and the wrestling press spent the gap forecasting a WWE homecoming that never came. He returned on the April 1, 2026 Dynamite in Winnipeg — “I’m home” — and the 2026 run has been a pointed exercise in earning rather than coasting: a TNT Championship challenge lost to Kevin Knight on August 12 when Don Callis put a screwdriver in his back, and the All In: London Casino Gauntlet on August 30, where he entered sixth, dumped Tommaso Ciampa to a stadium singing Judas, locked the Walls on MJF, and watched Andrade win the title shot he wanted. No championship, one stated goal: AEW World Champion again.
Twenty documented bouts — the unification night as two rows, the AEW founding reign at both ends, both ROH title changes, and the full 2026 comeback so far. This is a curated ledger, not a career count; nothing approaching a verified win–loss total exists for a career spanning six countries and 36 years, and none is invented. Filter by match type, tap any column header to sort, and turn spoilers on to reveal results.
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| Res | Date | Promo | Event | Opponent(s) | Stipulation | Title |
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| W | 2001-10-21 | WWE | No Mercy — St. Louis | The Rock | Singles — his first world championship, at 30, after a decade of being told he was too small | WCW Championship |
| W | 2001-12-09 | WWE | Vengeance — San Diego | The Rock | Semi-final of the unification night — takes the WCW/World Championship | WCW/World Championship |
| W | 2001-12-09 | WWE | Vengeance — San Diego | Stone Cold Steve Austin | Final of the unification night — becomes the first Undisputed Champion | Undisputed WWF Championship |
| L | 2002-03-17 | WWE | WrestleMania X8 — Toronto | Triple H | Singles — the Undisputed reign ends | Undisputed WWF Championship |
| W | 2008-10-05 | WWE | No Mercy — Portland | Shawn Michaels | Ladder match — the peak of the 2008 feud that reinvented him | World Heavyweight Championship |
| W | 2009-06-07 | WWE | Extreme Rules — New Orleans | Rey Mysterio | No holds barred — a record ninth Intercontinental Championship | WWE Intercontinental Championship |
| L | 2009-06-28 | WWE | The Bash — Sacramento | Rey Mysterio | Title vs. mask — Mysterio keeps the mask and takes the title back | WWE Intercontinental Championship |
| W | 2010-02-21 | WWE | Elimination Chamber — St. Louis | The Chamber field | Elimination Chamber match — a third World Heavyweight Championship | World Heavyweight Championship |
| L | 2012-04-01 | WWE | WrestleMania XXVIII — Miami | CM Punk | Singles — the 'best in the world' argument, settled Punk's way | WWE Championship |
| W | 2016-04-03 | WWE | WrestleMania 32 — Dallas | AJ Styles | Singles — the veteran wins the exchange, the rookie wins the year | — |
| L | 2018-01-04 | NJPW | Wrestle Kingdom 12 — Tokyo Dome | Kenny Omega | Alpha vs. Omega, no disqualification — the match that made the late-career pivot real | IWGP United States Championship |
| W | 2019-08-31 | AEW | All Out — Chicago | Adam Page | Singles — becomes the first AEW World Champion, exactly seven years to the day before this page's dateline | AEW World Championship |
| L | 2020-02-29 | AEW | Revolution — Chicago | Jon Moxley | Singles — the 182-day inaugural reign ends | AEW World Championship |
| W | 2022-09-21 | AEW | Dynamite: Grand Slam — New York | Claudio Castagnoli | Singles — wins the ROH World Championship, a title he'd never touched in 32 years | ROH World Championship |
| W | 2024-04-21 | AEW | Dynasty — St. Louis | HOOK | FTW rules — the Learning Tree era's one belt | FTW Championship |
| L | 2024-08-25 | AEW | All In — Wembley Stadium | HOOK | FTW rules — HOOK takes it back with Taz at ringside | FTW Championship |
| W | 2024-10-23 | AEW | Dynamite — Ladder War | Mark Briscoe | Ladder War — a second ROH World Championship and, by Wrestling Inc's count, a ninth world title | ROH World Championship |
| L | 2025-04-06 | AEW | Dynasty — Philadelphia | Bandido | Title vs. mask — Bandido keeps the mask, takes the title; Jericho disappears from AEW for a year | ROH World Championship |
| L | 2026-08-12 | AEW | Dynamite — Las Vegas | Kevin Knight | TNT Championship challenge — a Don Callis screwdriver shot keeps the belt on Knight | AEW TNT Championship |
| L | 2026-08-30 | AEW | All In: London — Wembley Stadium | The Casino Gauntlet field | Casino Gauntlet for a world title shot — entered sixth, eliminated Ciampa, locked the Walls on MJF; Andrade won | — |
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Curated ledger · documented highlights · some bouts are not listed
The matches the reputation rests on. No Observer star ratings are published here — none were verified against archives in this pass.
vs The Rock, then Steve Austin
Both in one night — the Undisputed Championship unification
vs Shawn Michaels
Ladder match — the summit of the feud that reinvented him
vs Kenny Omega
Alpha vs. Omega — the pivot that made the second act possible
vs Adam Page
The night AEW got its first world champion
Nine world championships across three companies, and the Intercontinental record that stood before any of them. Tag reigns are listed by partner rather than count — the total was not verified in this pass and is not guessed.
The first. Def. The Rock (WCW/World title) and Steve Austin (WWF title) in one night at Vengeance, December 9, 2001; lost to Triple H at WrestleMania X8, March 17, 2002
First won from The Rock at No Mercy, October 21, 2001 — his first world title, at 30; the second is the Vengeance semi-final, folded into the unification
The Unforgiven 2008 championship scramble; a cage-match reign that November; the Elimination Chamber win of February 21, 2010
The inaugural champion — def. Adam Page at All Out, August 31, 2019; lost to Jon Moxley at Revolution, February 29, 2020, after 182 days
Def. Claudio Castagnoli at Dynamite: Grand Slam, September 21, 2022; def. Mark Briscoe in the October 23, 2024 Ladder War; lost to Bandido, title vs. mask, at Dynasty, April 6, 2025
The record. The ninth won from Rey Mysterio at Extreme Rules, June 7, 2009 — and lost back to him in a title-vs-mask match three weeks later
Won from Tetsuya Naito in 2018 during the Painmaker run
Def. HOOK at Dynasty, April 21, 2024; lost it back to HOOK at All In on August 25, 2024
World Tag Team Championship reigns with partners including Chris Benoit, The Rock, Edge and Big Show — the exact count across belts was not verified in this pass and is not published
Three AEW-era units, each an era of the gimmick — he does not join factions so much as institutionalise whatever he is currently doing.
Chris Jericho, Jake Hager, Sammy Guevara, Santana, Ortiz
Formed weeks after he won the inaugural AEW World Championship — the company's first supergroup, built to give a startup instant main-event structure. 'A little bit of the bubbly' came out of its first celebration; the Stadium Stampede matches against The Elite carried AEW through the pandemic era. It ended when Guevara's generation outgrew it, which was roughly the point.
Chris Jericho, Daniel Garcia, 2point0, Jake Hager, Anna Jay, Tay Melo
The 'sports entertainers versus wrestlers' stable — Jericho as cult leader teaching young grapplers to embrace entertainment over craft, feuding with the Blackpool Combat Club and Ring of Honor's old guard while he held the ROH World Championship.
Chris Jericho, Big Bill, Bryan Keith
The final pre-hiatus form: a patronising mentor who insists he is helping while stealing HOOK's FTW title and calling everyone 'kiddo.' Deliberately irritating by design, and the faction whose collapse — a confrontation with Bill and Keith in April 2025 — was his exit ramp into the year-long absence.
The industry's most committed serial reinventor. The famous versions, in order: Lionheart → Y2J → the suit → the List → the Painmaker / Le Champion → the Learning Tree.
The globe-trotting junior heavyweight: CMLL, WAR's junior division, ECW TV Champion, WCW Cruiserweight Champion — and, in WCW's midcard, the inventor of the whiny conspiracy-victim heel ('1,004 holds') that previewed everything after.
Debuted August 9, 1999, interrupting The Rock mid-promo with the millennium countdown. Motor-mouthed, sequin-shirted, and underneath the catchphrases the man who beat Rock and Austin in one night to unify the belts.
The post-Michaels-feud sociopath: slow cadence, tailored suits, 'gelatinous parasites.' Three World Heavyweight reigns came out of it, and it remains the template heels reach for when they want to be taken seriously.
Scarves, 'stupid idiot,' Gillberg-adjacent pettiness, and a clipboard that became the hottest prop in wrestling. The Festival of Friendship breakup with Kevin Owens is the era's masterpiece.
Leather, spikes and violence for the Omega and Naito matches in Japan; then AEW's founding champion, demanding respect in a suit while a stadium sang his entrance music at him.
The heat-seeking mentor of 2024-25, retired by the hiatus. Since the April 2026 Winnipeg return the presentation is closer to earnest legacy-mode — a 'Cornerstone' trademark was filed during the absence — with the stated goal of a tenth world title.
A ten-minute draw in Ponoka, Alberta to first champion of two companies.
October 2, 1990, a time-limit draw with Lance Storm — both trained at the Hart Brothers school in Calgary.
CMLL in Mexico, Germany, then Japan's WAR promotion — the junior-heavyweight education that built the style.
ECW Television Champion; signs with WCW that summer, wins the Cruiserweight title and invents the conspiracy-heel act the company never pushed.
August 9, 1999: the Y2J debut, interrupting The Rock on Raw in Chicago.
First world title from The Rock at No Mercy on October 21; then Rock and Austin in one night at Vengeance on December 9 to become the first Undisputed WWF Champion.
The Shawn Michaels feud — Wrestlemania match, the punch through the JeriTron, the No Mercy ladder match — births the suit-wearing heel and three World Heavyweight reigns.
The scarf-and-clipboard renaissance, and the Festival of Friendship with Kevin Owens in early 2017.
Wrestle Kingdom 12 against Kenny Omega on January 4 — a 47-year-old legend voluntarily becoming an outsider again. IWGP Intercontinental Championship follows.
Signs with the startup in January; beats Adam Page at All Out on August 31 for the inaugural title; forms the Inner Circle.
ROH World Championship from Claudio Castagnoli at Grand Slam on September 21; the Jericho Appreciation Society era.
FTW Championship from HOOK in April; loses it at Wembley in August; wins the Ladder War over Mark Briscoe on October 23 for a second ROH World Championship — world title nine.
Loses the ROH title to Bandido, title vs. mask, at Dynasty on April 6 — then disappears from AEW television for a year while WWE rumors swirl and the contract reportedly freezes.
Returns April 1 in Winnipeg — 'I'm home.' Loses the TNT title challenge to Kevin Knight on August 12 via Don Callis screwdriver; enters the All In: London Casino Gauntlet on August 30 chasing a tenth world title and comes up short as Andrade wins.
Who he went to war with.
The 2008 feud is the standard modern heel-turn syllabus: the idol worship, the punch through the JeriTron 5000 that hit Michaels' wife, the unsanctioned match, the No Mercy ladder match of October 5, 2008. It transformed Jericho from nostalgic act to the most hated man on the roster, and he has called it his favorite work of his career.
The 2009 masterclass: Jericho weaponised 1990s Mexico footage, kept snatching at the mask, took a record ninth Intercontinental Championship off Mysterio at Extreme Rules on June 7, 2009, and lost the rematch that mattered — title versus mask at The Bash on June 28, with Mysterio unmasking him mid-move for the finish.
Alpha vs. Omega at Wrestle Kingdom 12, January 4, 2018 — the surprise that reset his career's ceiling and previewed the AEW signing. The Painmaker run and the credibility it bought him with a new generation trace to this one bet on himself.
The multi-year AEW apprenticeship-as-blood-feud: the Inner Circle recruitment, the betrayal, the Labour of Love, and a dynamic that resurfaced instantly when they collided in the All In: London Casino Gauntlet on August 30, 2026, Jericho locking the Walls on him mid-match.
The 'best in the world' feud of 2012 — WrestleMania XXVIII on April 1 and the Chicago Street Fight rematch — fought explicitly over Jericho's own catchphrase, and lost.
The Learning Tree's two reckonings: the generational FTW feud with HOOK through 2024's Dynasty and Wembley bookends, and the Bandido title-versus-mask match at Dynasty on April 6, 2025 — the loss he disappeared on, and the last image of Jericho before the year away.
The busiest extracurricular resume in wrestling — kept to the flagship items.
Lead vocalist since 1999. 'Judas' (2017) became a streaming phenomenon and doubles as his AEW entrance theme, sung by entire arenas.
Twice-weekly interview podcast, one of wrestling's longest-running.
A Lion's Tale (2007), Undisputed, Best in the World and more — the multi-volume autobiography project.
Season 12 contestant — one entry in a long broadcast resume that also includes hosting and metal-scene documentary work.
The periodic themed cruise combining Fozzy, wrestling and the extended Jericho universe.
The firsts and records, with the arithmetic shown.
Vengeance, December 9, 2001: beat The Rock for the WCW/World Championship and Steve Austin for the WWF Championship in the same night, unifying the two lineages. Nobody else has won both in one evening.
All Out, August 31, 2019, over Adam Page — then held the title 182 days through the company's launch. The only man to be the first champion of two major promotions' top titles.
Six in WWE (two WCW/World, one Undisputed, three World Heavyweight), one AEW, two ROH — the count Wrestling Inc published when the ninth arrived in the October 23, 2024 Ladder War. WWE-only counts stop at six, which is why sources disagree.
Still the record in 2026 — the ninth taken from Rey Mysterio at Extreme Rules on June 7, 2009.
Last match April 6, 2025; returned April 1, 2026 in Winnipeg. He no-showed a year of WWE-return prophecies — Meltzer and Fightful both reported he was not expected in WWE at all — while AEW reportedly froze the contract clock.
Titles won in the 1990s (WCW Cruiserweight, ECW TV), 2000s, 2010s and 2020s — with the 2024 ROH reign extending the streak past age 54.
Entered sixth at 55, eliminated Tommaso Ciampa while the stadium sang Judas, and had MJF in the Walls when the next entrant broke it up. Andrade won the world title shot; Jericho's stated target remains a tenth world championship.
Deliberately absent: a tag team reign count (partners are documented, the total was not verified), a career win-loss record (none exists), social handles, and Observer ratings. The nine-world-title figure is the cross-promotion count; WWE materials recognise six.
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He is in AEW. After his April 6, 2025 loss to Bandido he disappeared from television for a year, his contract reportedly frozen during the absence, and the rumor mill spent that year booking his WWE homecoming — he no-showed every predicted date, and both Dave Meltzer and Fightful reported he was not expected in WWE at all. He returned on the April 1, 2026 Dynamite in his hometown of Winnipeg with two words: “I’m home.” Since then he has challenged Kevin Knight for the TNT Championship (August 12, a loss via Don Callis screwdriver) and entered the Casino Gauntlet at All In: London on August 30, 2026, stating plainly that he wants to be AEW World Champion again.
Nine, by the cross-promotion count: six in WWE — two WCW/World Championship reigns, the first Undisputed WWF Championship, three World Heavyweight Championships — plus the inaugural AEW World Championship and two ROH World Championships. You will also see “six” (WWE-only) and “seven” (pre-2024 cross-promotion counts); the nine figure is the one Wrestling Inc used when the second ROH reign arrived in October 2024, and this page adopts it with the arithmetic shown.
Jericho entered sixth in the match for a future AEW World Championship shot on August 30, 2026 at Wembley. He eliminated Tommaso Ciampa — the crowd sang “Judas” — and had MJF in the Walls of Jericho before the next entrant broke it up. Andrade El Idolo won the match and the title shot. It was Jericho’s first All In appearance since losing the FTW title at Wembley in 2024, and it leaves him at nine world titles, still one short of the tenth he returned for.
Yes — and it took beating The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin in the same night. At Vengeance on December 9, 2001 he defeated The Rock to win the WCW/World Championship, then defeated Austin to add the WWF Championship, unifying the two lineages into the Undisputed WWF Championship. He held it until Triple H beat him at WrestleMania X8 on March 17, 2002. Eighteen years later he became the first AEW World Champion too — the only wrestler to be the inaugural holder of two major promotions’ top titles.
Yes — nine reigns, still the record as of August 2026. The ninth came against Rey Mysterio at Extreme Rules on June 7, 2009, in the middle of the feud where he kept trying to unmask him; Mysterio took the title back three weeks later in a title-versus-mask match. For context on the other kind of IC record: Gunther’s 666-day single reign (2022–24) is the longest reign, while Jericho’s nine remain the most.