Various: Chris Jericho on Losing “Six Figures” from First Jericho Cruise, New Trademarks, Indies

AEW

Nov 18, 2021

Chris Jericho Comments on Losing “Six Figures” on First Jericho Cruise

A recent episode of the Talk Is Jericho podcast had host Chris Jericho discussing his thoughts about his series of cruise events called the Chris Jericho’s Rock ‘N’ Wrestling Rager at Sea.

On the topic of the first cruise, Jericho stated:

“Huge success from a critics standpoint, huge failure from a financial standpoint. I lost a lot of money, six figures, but you’re building yours business right? Anytime you build something, you have to be prepared to spend money to make money. That’s what we did. I lost a lot of money and we put hours and hours of work into it and I did something I said I would never do, which is become a promoter. I’m in charge of booking all the talent and paying the talent, especially the first cruise, I paid all the talent. It’s not easy because everyone wants to get a great pay off and I also want everyone to get a great payoff, but I’m also going over what my budget is. The second cruise, the financial deal was reconfigured to where I recouped my loss and made money on top of that.”

On the topic of the second and third cruise events, Jericho stated:

“We never know what we’re going to get with AEW until we’re closer to the cruise. The crazy thing with this one was that, in August or July, TNT told us Dynamite would be preempted and moved to a Saturday. Originally, we thought it was great because we could do Dynamite live from the sea because that was our plan, originally. The first one was taped, but the second we were thinking of how we could do it live, being in port at the Grand Bahamas and it turns out that AEW decided to go in a different direction and doing it live just wasn’t as feasible as we thought. When Dynamite got moved to Saturday, it meant it would conflict wth the cruise.”

Jericho also stated that the idea to book Will Ospreay for his third cruise event was due to him learning that Minoru Suzuki was going to be in the United States at the time and doing some work for AEW.

“We had lost some people and I got the idea for Ospreay because Minoru Suzuki was doing some work in AEW and I thought, ‘How long is he in the States for?’ I looked it up to see he had a couple of shows in the States during the cruise weekend, but Ospreay was also in the States and he wasn’t working that weekend, so I called Will and asked if he wanted to go. He said, ‘What do you want me to do?’ I said, ‘Just be there.'”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

WWE, Adam Pearce, & F1RST Wrestling File New Trademarks, One WWE Trademark in Dispute

WWE, Adam Pearce, and F1RST Wrestling recently filed several new trademarks to the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Trademarks for “Adrian Butler”, “Derek Sanders”, “Daphanie Lashaunn”, and “Dallas Irvin” were filed by WWE on November 11th for wrestling and entertainment-related purposes.

Trademarks for “Scrapp Metel”, “Scrapp Metal”, and “Scrapp Mettal” were filed by November 12th for wrestling and entertainment-related purposes.

A trademark for “Scrap Daddy” was filed by Adam Pearce on November 8th for wrestling and entertainment-related purposes.

A trademark for “Saturday Night Nitro” was filed by indie promotion F1RST Wrestling on November 10th for wrestling and entertainment-related purposes.

PWInsider’s Steven Fernandez reported Starz Entertainment recently filed an opposition to the USPTO to WWE’s trademark filing of “Jack Starz.” WWE reportedly has until December 18th to file an official response to Starz Entertainment.

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

New Japan Pro Wrestling recently announced that they will be holding a 50th Anniversary tour and museum exhibit from February 11, 2022 to March 2, 2022 in Japan. The tour will be called New Years Golden Series and will feature six events starting on February 11th in Sendai, February 13th in Osaka, February 19th & 20th in Hokkaido, and March 1st & 2nd in Tokyo. The museum exhibit was announced to be taking place from February 11-27 at the Tokyo Dome City Gallery AaMo in Tokyo.

NJPW recently announced that Christopher Daniels and JONAH, former Bronson Reed in WWE, will be making appearances for the company at their NJPW Strong Nemesis event on December 9th in Los Angeles, California.

Taya Valkyrie recently announced that her first indie event since being released from WWE earlier this month will be for Zicky Dice’s Outlandish Paradise event on January 15, 2022 in Canton, Georgia.

Former WWE talent Ho Ho Lun announced on Twitter that he will be returning to the United States this December and will be joining a “Major League” this January.

WrestlePro recently announced that Scarlett Bordeaux will be making an appearance for the company at their Killer Instinct event on February 5, 2022 in Rahway, New Jersey.

WrestleCade recently announced a new match for the card of their WrestleCade Revenge event on November 27th in Winston-Salem, North Carolina: