Over the weekend, All Elite Wrestling (AEW) returned to London’s Wembley Stadium for their All In event. In the events leading to the landmark show, Fozzy, led by AEW wrestler and inaugural AEW World Champion Chris Jericho, played a concert at the O2 Academy which featured a surprising cover in the setlist, to say nothing of the guest who joined them.
The band played Rage Against The Machine’s “Killing in the Name,” with fellow AEW wrestler and then-World Champion Swerve Strickland joining Jericho on vocals. On paper, this makes sense, as Swerve makes hip-hop music under the handle Swerve the Realest. Hell, he, like Jericho did with “Judas” and later “Spotlight,” performed his own theme music, “Big Pressure.” And the song itself has quite the history in England, what with the song overtaking the single released by the 2009 X Factor winner, much to the chagrin of Simon Cowell. So why not play it while they’re in town, right?
This would be a bad time to mention that Jericho donated to the Trump campaign in 2020, wouldn’t it?
What about talking about Jericho’s wife, who was pictured at the Capitol on January 6th, 2021?
🎶Break the (Capitol) Walls Down🎶 https://t.co/RLGvd3CdUO pic.twitter.com/mNTNeQJjnq
— Meltzer Said What? (@MeltzerSaidWhat) February 15, 2021
Never mind that Jericho is playing a bad guy and Swerve’s character is a tweener at worst… yer killing the business, boys.
Tonedeafness or genuine confusion aside, the cover isn’t bad, though it seems like Swerve was far happier to be there playing the song than was Jericho. There’s nothing fundamentally wrong musically, but I doubt we’ll be getting a studio version of this anytime soon. That said, there is footage of the dubious demonstration, so see for yourself:
