Chris Jericho has to survive Five Labours - matches picked by Maxwell Jacob Friedman - in order to get a chance for revenge against MJF.
It would have been pretty anticlimactic if he lost the First. And he didn’t, pinning Shawn Spears to end a match where Spears could use chairs, but Jericho couldn’t. He needed a run-in from Sammy Guevara as an equalizer against Tully Blanchard’s distraction in order to get to where he could hit the Chairman with Judas Effect, though. So MJF announced that in the other four Labours, if Le Champion can’t have any outside help.