Chris Jericho has stepped up to many challenges in her professional wrestling career, and, in some situations, had the odds stacked against him and succeeded time and time again.The All Elite Wrestling (AEW) star recently brought a new set of challengers to the spotlight in a documentary he produced called "Vietslam." The film showcases the rise of Vietnam Pro Wrestling (VPW) and how pro wrestling fans from the Asian country were able to get their own company started to unify a population that was starved for the sport."Vietslam" follows how pro wrestling fans in the country were able to convince the Vietnamese government to allow the sport to be featured in the country, starting from almost nothing to building a rabid audience that only really watched WWE or AEW on TV.AEW STAR MVP TALKS CHRIS JERICHO'S PLACE AMONG ALL-TIME GREATS IN PRO WRESTLING BEFORE DOUBLE OR NOTHINGChris Jericho attends the All Elite Wrestling panel during New York Comic Con at Jacob Javits Center in New York City.(Noam Galai/Getty Images for WarnerMedia Company)"On ‘Talk is Jericho,’ I got a random request through an email from a pro wrestling group in Vietnam," Jericho explained to Fox News Digital in a recent interview.
"And I'd done a few episodes about wrestling in different parts of the world, like China and the Inuit in northern, northern Canada areas, so I thought it'd be interesting to talk to the guys and when I talked to them, it was a Vietnamese guy called Rocky and a Canadian guy called Carrie who had moved to Vietnam, and they had kind of, against all odds, started a wrestling company.There wasn't wrestling in Vietnam.
There wasn't even a wrestling ring in Vietnam and the government didn't even know what wrestling was because they had to get the permits because obviously it's a very strict government there."But they went and followed their dreams and followed the heart and followed the passion and started up a wrestling company in Vietnam that ended up becoming fairly succe...