WWE NXT: Chris Jericho reveals that Vince McMahon turned down an NXT-related proposal
Chris Jericho’s extensive and successful career in professional wrestling has led him to travel around the world and step into the ring of the best companies.
From WWE to AEW, passing through NJPW, among many others. With more than 30 years of experience in the business, it is normal for Jericho to have.
Accumulated an innumerable amount of anecdotes and curious stories, some as interesting as the last one that he has shared in the most recent.
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Episode of his Talk is Jericho podcast. While recounting how the idea for his Rock ‘N’ Wrestling cruise came to be, Jericho revealed that due to his.
Inexperience as a wrestling promoter, he tried to enlist NXT talent to be a part of the event. However, when he contacted WWE, he received a negative response.
Later, Jericho found out that it was Vince McMahon’s doing, as he was aware of a news report that all the passengers on a cruise ship had been intoxicated.
Because of this, the WWE Chairman was convinced that all cruises posed a potential health risk.”The first thing I did, my first idea, was to get.
NXT talent on board,” Jericho noted. “Because I was like, ‘I’m not a promoter. I don’t know where to get indie guys.’ If I can work with a company and.
Have them send whoever they want, I won’t have to worry about it. They can organize the matches. They can do what they want. So I approached Hunter (Triple H).
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In Philadelphia. I remember meeting him to talk about NXT on my cruise. At first people thought he was crazy. They always think I’m crazy when I come.
Up with these ideas. They told me: ‘How are you going to fight in the middle of the ocean?’ And I’d be like, ‘Well man, I just gave a fucking rock concert.
In the middle of the ocean. Is the same. Sometimes it wobbles a bit, but most of the time it’s pretty smooth. It’s not dangerous”.
“So I talked to the NXT people for a while and then, in classic WWF fashion, I finally got a group call with about seven people,” Jericho continued.
“It took 45 minutes for them to tell me they weren’t interested. And I was like, ‘You could have said, Hey guys, we’re not interested. Bye.’ 45 minutes.
The reason for that was – this is so classic – Vince (McMahon) doesn’t like cruisers. Because I had just seen the news, where I guess there was a cruise.
Where a bunch of people got food poisoning. Something happened anywhere. It’s not going to happen on this cruise. I guarantee you.
(Vince) was convinced that on every cruise, people die from food poisoning. They told me: ‘Yes, you are concerned that there may be problems with the boat.’
And I said: ‘What? Are you afraid of hitting a bloody iceberg? Let’s go to Mexico, we’ll be fine.” The refusal of WWE and McMahon did not demotivate Jericho.
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Who soon found a plan B. “The Wizard” said he had contacted Cody, who put him in contact with Hunter Delirious, who in turn put him in contact.
With joe Koff from Ring of Honour. 10 minutes later he already had an agreement with the promotion.
Bringing the fighter one step closer to celebrating the first edition of his Chris Jericho’s Rock ‘N’ Wrestling Rager at Sea.
