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Whilst it's a well-known fact now that WWE said no to sending NXT Superstars on the Cruise of Jericho, there will be some familiar WWE faces on the cruise as Jerry Lawler and Jim Ross have been signed on as hosts.
You mentioned WWE Hall of Famers, whilst there might not be anyone from WWE wrestling you have booked arguably one of the greatest WWE commentary duos ever in Jim Ross and Jerry 'The King' Lawler, what will they host to the cruise?
Jericho: "They're kind of, yeah, they're the ipso facto hosts of the cruise, they'll kick it off. I'm doing a podcast with them, they're doing their own podcast as well, and signings. It's really one of those things where besides me, I built the cruise around me, because I knew that I wouldn't walk out on myself or be hard to deal with, not that anybody else is, but other than that everybody has three shows, four shows to do over four days and the rest is just kind of hanging around.
That's the cool thing because it's basically just a working vacation for a lot of people and that makes it cool as well. This is the first one, I didn't have a huge budget but I did have this really cool offer - I can't pay you this but I can pay you that and give you a free all expenses paid cruise, and that was a big selling point for a lot of the guys. King included, Jerry Lawler contacted me and said 'I've never been on a cruise before, I'd love to do it' and it's like dude, make it happen. We got the deal and here he is, and it was like that with a lot of people.
Which was good because, like I've said, I needed some help, I've never done this before, I'm not Moneybags Mcgee, it's not Chris Jericho's cruise in name only, I have a financial stake in it as well. So, having said all of those things I have a great group of people, a lot of people came on board, not as a favour, but more of a neutral favour, 'I'll bring you on board if you do this, you're happy to do it, let's rock' and that's kind of the whole idea behind it!"
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