5 Reasons Chris Jericho will probably lose the AEW World Title in his first defense

#3 Makes TV Unpredictable

Could the Hangman make up for his August 31st loss on October 16th?

If they have a big championship match on the third-ever episode of their TV show, and actually have the first champion lose it in his very first defense, it would be insane.

In a good way, mind you. Does anybody really expect that Jericho would win the title only to hold it for a month and a half, and have zero successful defenses? That's highly unlikely, but certainly not impossible. What it would be -- shocking.

It's tough to say who would win it. AEW would run into a similar problem to the one TNA suffered when they started if they went with Jon Moxley.

While he would definitely be a big enough star to be AEW World Champion, and eventually will hold the belt, the company would lose a good amount of support and come under a lot of scrutiny if they went with former WWE Champions as their first two AEW Champions.

Who else? Hangman Page wouldn't be a terrible choice and it could happen. Cody wouldn't be as bad, in terms of "WWE star" problems because while he spent his formative years in the company, he became an actual star once he left.

They would, however, run into another problem suffered by TNA -- having one of the founders of the company as the World Champion so soon would be a pretty big faux pas and one AEW hopefully has learned from by paying attention to history.

No matter who it is, even if it's a shocking victory by a wrestler that everyone expects Jericho to beat very quickly and that wrestler loses it back to Jericho soon after -- it still lends a feeling of unpredictability to their new television venture.

That's an important element to have on your side. If nobody knows what's going to happen, and everyone knows that anything can happen, then people will want to tune in and see what actually does happen.