Chris Jericho discusses Dynamite on the 'Jericho Cruise', Marko Stunt, wrestling Cody at Full Gear and Randy Orton using AEW as leverage (Exclusive)

Will Dynamite take place on the Cruise of Jericho?

You mentioned AEW, what will we be seeing from AEW on the cruise? There are some rumors that we’ll get an episode of Dynamite on the boat? Can you tell us anything about that?

Jericho: Well I mean, you’ll just have to wait and see. I think the fact is that we’re setting sail January 20th-24th so we’ll have to put a programme on the Wednesday somehow. We’re not confirming or denying that fact!

You’re the current AEW World Champion, you’re organising this wrestling cruise and you have lots of other stuff going on as well, what’s it like being able to be the top champion of a promotion whilst still being able to keep up with everything else?

Jericho: It’s something I’ve been doing pretty much my whole career, I’ve always had a multitude of projects that I believe in and I’ve been interested. The cruise was no easy feat, it took three years to get it signed, sealed and delivered, so it was a long term project that I really wanted to put a lot of time into and make it great. And that’s kind of the equivalent of everything I do whether it’s AEW, or Fozzy, or Talk Is Jericho and now we’ve got Chris Jericho’s Rock ‘N’ Wrestling Rager. It’s just another branch of stuff that I do to give the friends of Jericho cool things to get involved with.

Hooking up with great partners to make sure anything that I cant do, or I’m not good at I’ve got great guys to help wrap up that side of things.So, I think that’s the secret - to make sure you’ve got a great team of people and it all starts at the top with the passion that I have with everything that I do to make it not just good but make it great. And when you had 2,000 people last year tell me they had the vacation of a lifetime, that’s exactly what I wanted and what I desired. And this year we’ve got 2,200 people hoping to do the exact same thing and I will accept nothing less for my guests.

It sounds like the cruise is going to be great this year and it’s sold out but is there any way people can still get on it?

Jericho: Yep, you can sign up for the waiting list on chrisjerichocruise.com. What that means is that it is sold out, but sometimes people don’t pay the last little bit, or they can’t make it or little junior has homework to do, or whatever it may be. So it’s just a matter of signing up for the waiting list and as cabins become available it’s a first-come-first-serve for the ones that remain, so it’s kind of an cool deal because there’s been some people already signed up for the waiting list who thought they didn’t have a chance and suddenly bingo, the heavens open up and they get a shot to go. So, that’s the best way to do it at this point in time.

With it selling out last year and it selling out this year, there must be plans for a third cruise, surely?

Jericho: Absolutely, my goal has always been to make this an annual destination vacation. I noticed this on the Kiss cruise, Fozzy does the Kiss cruise, that it was very much this community which people were coming every year no matter what! Almost like summer camp sort-of-thing, like ‘oh we got another cruise’. And I want to start that kind of reaction [someone interrupts and Jericho tells them it’s okay. I think he’s at the airport]. So, once we kind of get that ball rolling, people will know what to expect and they’ll sign up every year, no matter who’s on the cruise, even before there’s big announcements I want the vibe it to be the same every time where you know you’re going to have a great time no matter what.

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