If you missed out on being able to be part of the Chris Jericho Rock N’ Wrestling Rager at Sea, don’t fear as you will have more chances to do so. Jericho himself announced that due to the success of the event this year, he will be bringing it back for round three. Unless Jericho has a split with All Elite Wrestling in the next calendar year, you can also rightfully assume he will be bring their talent around once again.
WWE Passed On The Idea From Chris Jericho
When Chris Jericho initially had the idea to combine his loves of rock music & wrestling on a cruise ship, he was still working with WWE. So he went to WWE to ask for talent from NXT to wrestle on the cruise, as he mentions in an old interview from ‘Killing The Town’ with Don Callis & Lance Storm.
“Here’s the thing. I did my due diligence,” Jericho admitted. “Obviously, I was working for WWE at the time. I took it to Triple H. I wanted to see if NXT would do it and to see if they’d be interested in doing that. We had some conversations, and, basically, typically WWE, after three months of talking about it, I had a 35-minute conversation with three executives that I’ve never heard of before just to tell us that they’re passing. And I was like, ‘why didn’t you just tell me in, like, three minutes, ‘we’re passing?” I had to sit there for 35 minutes and hear all the reasons why: I mean, Vince doesn’t like doing cruises; he saw somebody got food poisoning on the cruise once and now he’s terrified that the whole crew ship was going to be poisoned. I was like, ‘is he scared that we’re going to hit an iceberg as well as we go to Mexico?'”
Instead he worked with Ring Of Honor for the first Rock N’ Wrestling Rager at Sea event. This brought the Sea Of Honor tournament. It went off without a hitch, unless you consider a bird crashing into a fan and dying mid match. The fan was fine in the end, just a bit rattled. Colt Cabana on commentary laughed for about 4 minutes due to the absurdity of the situation.
Could All Elite Wrestling Go Bigger For Next Time?
With them breaking ground by taping an episode of Dynamite on the event, it raises the question of how much bigger could you go with this. It will be tricky to get a live feed from the ship, but if they could figure that out? How awesome would a live PPV from a cruise ship be? That would be truly unlike anything else in professional wrestling.
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