Chris Jericho walked into Philadelphia to a crowd that did the opposite of what many expected and the opposite of what it had done a little over a year ago. On May 27, 2026, he beat Ricochet on AEW Dynamite while fans sang his song, cheered his moves and chanted his name.
That reaction mattered because Jericho had spent much of the previous year on the other side of the public mood, with many fans wanting him gone forever. Instead, the Philadelphia crowd treated him like a favorite again, and it gave his match with Ricochet the kind of noise that turned a routine win into the night’s clearest crowd story.
The result itself was clean enough: Jericho outlasted Ricochet and left with the victory. What made the match stand out was the way the building responded to him. Each time Jericho hit a move, the chants grew louder. When he moved into control, the approval followed. For a wrestler who had been pushed away by much of the audience not long ago, the support in Philadelphia landed like a full reversal.
That shift only sharpened the contrast with where Jericho had been a little over a year earlier. Back then, the crowd energy around him was so cold that “gone forever” felt like the mood in the room. On this night, the same kind of live audience in a major wrestling city was loudly on his side. Philadelphia did not just accept Jericho. It celebrated him.
The celebration did not last long. Tomasso Ciampa attacked Jericho after the match, adding a fresh problem to a night that had already swung from hostility to cheers and then to violence. The beatdown left the next step unclear, but it did make one thing plain: Jericho’s new momentum is already being tested.
Elsewhere on the show, AEW kept the attention moving in several directions. MJF held a celebration segment while other wrestlers circled around the AEW World Title, and he is scheduled to face Lio Rush next week. Brody King also advanced by beating Claudio Castagnoli in a tournament match, setting up a semifinal against Swerve Strickland, while Mark Davis topped Jack Perry and moved on to face Will Ospreay. But on a night packed with developments, Jericho’s win and the crowd behind it were the clearest sign that the audience mood around him has changed again — even if Ciampa’s attack suggests that whatever comes next will not stay friendly for long.
