Chris Jericho appeared on episode 52 of Killing The Town with Storm & Cyrus to talk about various topics. Here are the highlights (h/t Wrestling Inc):

On his Rock ‘N’ Wrestling Rager At Sea

“The idea [for the ‘Jeri-cruise’] came from, so Fozzy was invited, and you’ll know, I mean, everybody knows, but you’ll understand just how big this is for me, Lance, when we got invited to play The KISS Kruise in 2015,” Jericho said. “It was like, ‘oh my gosh, KISS is inviting us to be one of the bands on the cruise!’, which, of course, is based around KISS.”



Jericho continued, “I was thinking about it and as soon as the boat docked [after The KISS Kruise], I remember I called my manager and I was like, ‘I can do this – I can do a rock and wrestling cruise. It’s a combination of what I’m known for. Nobody else on the planet can do this because that’s kind of my reputation, being in a rock ‘n’ roll band and being in the [pro] wrestling business.'”

On WWE not allowing NXT talents to work the cruise:





“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?'”



Jericho added, “and I knew that was going to happen because WWE doesn’t play well with others and I understood that, but I wanted to do my due diligence, like I said, at least present them the opportunity. And the day they said, ‘no,’ I told Triple H, ‘I’m still going to do this. This is happening either way.’ And he said, ‘yeah, sure. No problem.’ I made the call to Ring Of Honor and signed them on later on that week.”



