Minoru Suzuki shocks Chris Jericho at AEW Dynamite, FTW title match set for next week

It’s been three weeks since NJPW star Minoru Suzuki turned down Chris Jericho’s offer to team with him for the third time at AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door, instead opting to challenge Jericho to a singles match for the FTW Championship. Since then, Jericho has seemingly put his issues with HOOK, Samoa Joe and Katsuyori Shibata to rest (at least for now), but he still has to deal with Suzuki, who appeared at AEW Dynamite 250 and announced that he would challenge Jericho next week at AEW Dynamite: Blood & Guts.

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Suzuki’s appearance came after Jericho’s final “TV Time” segment, which had promised to appear on every episode of “Dynamite” from now on. The former IWGP Intercontinental Champion and two-time NEVER Openweight Champion interrupted “The Learning Tree” and showed him a piece of paper. “The Bad Apple” Bryan Keith read from it and revealed not only that the match would take place next week, but also that he and “The Redwood” Big Bill would be banned from ringside.

Jericho vs. Suzuki could be scheduled for next week, but it will take place on the undercard. The main event of the show is expected to kick off with the fourth-ever Blood & Guts cage match, pitting The Elite – AEW World Tag Team Champions Matthew and Nicholas Jackson, AEW Continental Champion Kazuchika Okada, AEW TNT Champion Jack Perry and “Hangman” Adam Page – against AEW World Champion Swerve Strickland, ROH World Champion Mark Briscoe, The Acclaimed and an as-yet-unnamed fifth member.

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