The fourth edition of the Chris Jericho Rock ‘n’ Wrestling Rager at Sea cruise has been postponed until 2023.
According to a statement on the cruise’s website, the decision to postpone from March 2022 to February 2023 came after soliciting feedback and conducting research.
In addition to the new dates, the cruise will have a new destination as well. Instead of sailing from Miami, Florida to Nassau, Bahamas, the cruise will now depart Miami and end up at Great Stirrup Cay, Bahamas, including a stop at a private island.
Information on transferring booking from the 2022 cruise to the 2023 edition, plus when new reservations will be accepted for 2023, can be found in a list of FAQs on the website.
The cruise’s statement reads:
“Chris Jericho’s Rock ‘N’ Wrestling Rager at Sea is an incredibly special event and that is because of our amazing cruisers! Since announcing the event during the Triple Whammy in late October 2021 and gearing up to set sail in March 2022, we’ve heard overwhelming feedback from the Rager at Sea family.
Members of this awesome community would love to attend, but are unable to due to the current environment and the quick turnaround between cruises. After compiling feedback and researching the options, we have made the decision to postpone the Four Leaf Clover to 2023.
The Four Leaf Clover will now sail February 2-6, 2023 aboard Norwegian Pearl from Miami, Florida to Great Stirrup Cay, Bahamas. We’ll spend the day on our very own private island (a new destination for the Rager at Sea!) where the beach is steps away, the food is free, and any purchased drink packages will be honored!”
A fourth edition of Chris Jericho’s Rock ‘n’ Wrestling Rager at Sea will set sail in 2022.
Jericho announced on this past weekend’s Rock ‘n’ Wrestling Rager Triple Whammy that the Chris Jericho Rock ‘n’ Wrestling Rager at Sea Four Leaf Clover will be held from March 14-18, 2022 between Miami, Florida and Nassau, Bahamas, aboard the Norwegian Pearl.
Tickets for the cruise will be available in a pre-sale here. Pre-sale purchases will include a professional photo with Jericho, a commemorative flag and a longer period of time to spread out payment.
So far, Chris Jericho, wrestling presented by AEW, plus three Fozzy concerts have been announced. Also announced are live episodes of the Talk is Jericho podcast, autograph sessions, performances and activities with wrestlers and comedians, four days of wrestling matches, and ‘Are You Smarter Than Le Champion.’
The lineup for the Triple Whammy included Jericho, Will Ospreay, Britt Baker, Orange Cassidy and Kurt Angle. The 2020 edition of the cruise included appearances from Ric Flair, Jon Moxley, Cody Rhodes, Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez.
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FRIDAY NEWS UPDATE
We won’t be doing a show tonight but we’ll have a big show tomorrow morning with Garrett on all the week’s news as well as Crown Jewel, G-1 and whatever happens tonight. Bryan and I will be back Saturday talking about Dynamite and the week’s news.
Thanks to those who wrote in about this week’s lead story. The numbers are there but the important thing is not the numbers but what the numbers show, which is all talked about. We also have a lot on how Kota Ibushi’s injury changes plans and how Tetsuya Naito’s injury changed G-1.
Smackdown tonight at 8 p.m.. back on FOX is teasing a belt switch with Charlotte Flair and Becky Lynch. Hopefully that’s a tease and they have a better idea instead.
Rampage at 10 p.m. tonight has Andrade vs. Pac, Britt Baker vs. Anna Jay and Orange Cassidy vs. Powerhouse Hobbs in the first round of the tournament for an AEW title shot. They will also announce the brackets for the TBS tournament. As noted all week, people who were there live, both fans and those in the company, were raving about Andrade vs Pac as one of the best matches in company history and the best match in Rampage history.
We have a number of polls for this weekend. We are looking for your thoughts on Crown Jewel, and both New Japan shows at Budokan Hall, as well as the Impact PPV tomorrow night. You can leave a thumbs up, thumbs down or thumbs in the middle along with a best and worst match for each individual show to [email protected]. We also have a poll for the G-1 tournament for G-1 MVP and best match of the tournament.
We are also looking for live reports from Smackdown in Wichita, KS with any dark match notes or other news, and from tonight’s Bloodsport show from Los Angeles.
UFC runs 1-7 p.m. Eastern tomorrow on ESPN+:
Jonathan Martinez (135) vs. Zviad Lazishvili (135)
Livinha Souza (115) vs. Randa Markos (115)
Jeffrey Molina (125) vs. Daniel Lacerda (125)
Khama Worthy (155) vs. Jai Herbert (155)
Jamie Pickett (184.5) vs. Laureano Staropoli (185.5)
Tabatha Ricci (115) vs. Maria Oliveira (115)
Mason Jones (156) vs. David Onama (153.5)
Jun Yong Park (185.5) vs. Gregory Rodrigues (185.5)
Nicolae Negumereanu (204.5) vs. Ike Villanueva (205)
Francisco Trinaldo (169.5) vs. Dwight Grant (170)
Alex Caceres (146) vs. Seung Woo Choi (145.5)
Jessica-Rose Clark (135.5) vs. Joselyn Edwards (134.5)
Grant Dawson (156) vs. Ricky Glenn (155.5)
Paulo Costa (204.5) vs. Marvin Vettori (204)
Costa forfeited 20 percent of his purse. Originally they were to fight at 185, but Costa said he was 211 on Wednesday and couldn’t make it. Last night they agreed to fight at 195, but Costa’s side told Vettori to make it 205 and Vettori agreed.
The Chris Jericho cruise took off yesterday. Marko Stunt did a concert already. Hopefully they taped it. Wish they could have done TV from the cruise but it didn’t work out.
Former Scotland lightweight champion Jim McKenzie was inducted today into the Scottish Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame at a civic reception at the City Chambers in Glasgow. After starting amateur wrestling in 1952, McKenzie turned pro in 1961. He won the Scottish lightweight title in 1964. He was a regular in that era on ITV Wrestling in the U.K.
The trial of Alberto Rodriguez (Alberto El Patron) for sexual assault and aggravated kidnapping in San Antonio is scheduled to begin on Monday. The trial has been delayed multiple times.
Bloodsport takes place tonight from Los Angeles at 11 p.m. Eastern from the Ukranian Cultural Center. It airs live on FITE on iPPV:
Royce Isaacs vs. Clark Connors
Starboy Charlie vs. Yoya
Zeda Zhang vs. KZT
Minoru Suzuki vs. Chris Dickinson
Erik Hammer vs. Bad Dude Tito
Tom Lawlor vs. Alex Coughlin
JR Kratos vs. Calvin Tankman
Yuya Uemura vs. Davey Richards
Marina Shafir vs. Masha Slamovich
Josh Barnett vs. Tiger Ruas
WWE
John Cena is in talks to star in the movie “Freelance,” according to a story in Deadline.com. Cena would play a special forces operative who retires from the Army and starts a life with a family. After a mundane life, he makes a comeback to provide security to a woman reporter who interviews a despotic dictator and a military coup breaks out in the middle of the interview and the three have to survive together.
There is another somewhat head-to-head live show war in Norfolk. Smackdown runs 11/12 with a TV taping and has 3,887 fans out at the Scope Arena, the main arena. AEW is running Dynamite five days later at the Chartway Arena, which is the city’s B arena, and has 4,193 tickets out.
Raw on Monday at the Toyota Center in Houston has nearly 9,000 tickets out. It’s the second time in the building since WWE started touring after a sellout of 13,000 paid the first time out. (thanks to William Zdon and WrestleTix)
John Cena was on The Tonight Show Wednesday night plugging his new movie “Vacation Friends.” They also talked about SummerSlam,Tom Brady and played Cena doing an interview as The Prototype, his name on indies and in OVW. (thanks to Grant Zwarych)
AEW
BetOnline.ag has put up odds for Saturday’s Dynamite show
Dustin Rhodes +500 vs. Bryan Danielson -950
Lance Archer -550 vs. Eddie Kingston +325
Malakai Black -140 vs. Cody Rhodes +100
UFC
Tickets for UFC 269 at the T-Mobile Arena on 12/11, the last major PPV of the year, with Charles Oliveira vs. Dustin Poirier for the lightweight title, Amanda Nunes vs. Julianna Pena for the women’s bantamweight title and Jorge Masvidal vs. Leon Edwards are now on sale to the public.
Dan Ige vs. Josh Emmett is earmarked for the 12/11 PPV show.
Clay Guida vs. Leonardo Santos has been added to the 12/4 show.
Cynthia Calvillo will replace Jessica Eye on the 11/12 show and face Andrea Lee. Eye pulled out with an illness that required hospitalization.
OTHER NOTES
Just wanted to update that the Go Fund Me for Impact’s Gia Miller and Ace Austin, whose apartment burned down, has hit $31,000 of a $5,000 goal. The list of top donors includes Scott D’Amore, Ryan Barkan (Pro Wrestling Tees), Chris Jericho, Eric Poon, Tommy Dreamer, John Morrison, Daivari, Shane Helms, Dallas Page, Cody Rhodes, Nick Jackson, Mark Madden, Norm Connors, Matt Cardona, Steve Tortorello (Warrior Wrestling), D-lo Brown, Moose, Mary Scurll, Max Caster, Christopher Daniels, Bryan Alvarez, Eric Young, Raj Giri, Deonna Purrazzo, Franky Monet and Phil Stamper.
KSW has a big show tomorrow at Atlas Arena in Lodz, Poland. Weigh-in for the top bouts
Sebastian Przybysz (135) vs. Bruno Santos (135) for bantamweight title
Mariusz Pudzianosski (260) vs. Bombardier (327)
Filip Pejic (146) vs. Daniel Rutkowski (146)
Robert Ruchala (146) vs. Patryk Kaczmarczyk (146)
Michal Pietrzak (169) vs. Shamil Musaev (171)
Karolina Owczarz (123) vs. Sylvia Juskiewecz (121)
The documentary on the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles and its history covering boxing, wrestling and Roller Games is available this weekend.
Criss Fresh and Mikey Jay announced the formation of a new group, Renegades of Wrestling in Australia. The planned start date is early 2022. They are working with Destroy All Lines who helped promote the 2018 New Japan tour of Australia.
Kit Parker, who produced the videos that myself and Jim Cornette did commentary on, is releasing the 1953 movie Crazylegs about Crazylegs Hirsch, an NFL legend. They are looking for a football historian to be part of the project, which has a lot of authentic footage of Hirsch in games. You can contact him at [email protected]
LFA on 11/12 in Burbank, CA at the Burbank Marriott Convention Center is on Fight Pass. The main event has not been announced yet.
Jeff Cobb vs. Jacob Fatu has been announced for the 10/29 Defy show at Washington Hall in Seattle.
TJP is working at Arena Mexico tonight. The main event is Atlantis Jr. & Fugaz vs. TJP & Cavernario.
Averno returns to CMLL on Tuesday in Guadalajara in the main event teaming with 72-year-old Hall of Famer El Satanico against Atlantis & Mistico.
Combate Global tonight on Paramount + at 11 p.m. Eastern has Zedekiah Montanez (4-0) vs. Roberto Romero Hernandez (4-2) in a featherweight main event.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the next Chris Jericho cruise has been pushed back to October 2021.
“After careful consideration and caution for everyone’s health and safety, we have made the difficult but necessary decision to postpone the Triple Whammy,” it was announced today. “We will now sail Oct 21-25, 2021 from Miami, Florida to Grand Bahama Island.”
The cruise, titled “Chris Jericho’s Rock N’ Rager at Sea: Triple Whammy,” was originally set for February 1-5, 2021. The first Jericho cruise took place in October 2018 and the second one took place in January of this year.
Cody had announced on this year’s cruise that the Triple Whammy would feature a live episode of AEW Dynamite. An episode of the show was taped on the cruise this year but didn’t air live.
Those who purchased rooms for the Triple Whammy cruise have the option to retain the same room for the new dates, receive a future cruise credit, or request a full refund:
We recognize we’re in the midst of uncertain times right now – times that call for extra flexibility, special value, and an absolute assurance that your health and safety are being closely looked after. With that in mind, Sixthman is postponing all cruises sailing between January and March 2021.
Chris Jericho’s Rock ‘N’ Wrestling Rager at Sea: Triple Whammy will now be sailing October 21 – October 25, 2021 from Miami, Florida to Grand Bahama Island aboard Norwegian Jewel.
Currently booked guests received an email on July 22nd detailing how to proceed. Only the Lead Passenger should make the selection and their email includes unique links for the cabin’s specific reservation.
Once receiving the email, the Lead Passenger may choose how to proceed from the options below:
Retain your same room for Fall 2021 All guests who transfer by August 5th will receive a photo with Chris Jericho & your cabinmates plus an exclusive Prow Wrestling Tees shirt on board!
Receive a future cruise credit*, which can be used on a future Sixthman festival or non-charter Norwegian sailing valid beginning September 2020 through December 31st, 2022.
Submit a request for a full refund
*Any travel protection premiums purchased through Sixthman will be issued as a refund to your most recent credit card payment or via check.
Booked guests have until August 5th, 2020 to submit their initial selection, but can make or change their selection any time before October 15th, 2020. Refund requests made by August 5th, 2020 will be processed and received within 45 days of the August 5th deadline. Refund requests made after August 5th, 2020 will be processed in November.
Despite the rumors, the audio from both live Wrestling Observer Radio Q&A sessions as part of the Chris Jericho Rock’n’Wrestling Rager were not lost at sea.
In session one (recorded on day three of the cruise), our Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez (The Skipper and Gilligan?) take fan questions for an hour.
As a reminder, you can attend a live Q&A with Dave and Bryan on Friday, April 3rd of WrestleMania weekend in Tampa, FL, at The Cuban Club. Limited tickets are still available.
Click below to listen and get ready for session two coming soon.
Wrestling Observer Live with Dave Meltzer and I is back with the first of many shows recorded from the Jericho Cruise, out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. We talk the cruise experience so far, the Fozzy concert and live wrestling matches from night one, plus New Japan New Year’s Dash and more.
The internet is very spotty on the boat, so we’ll do shows and post them the best we can throughout our time here, and post whatever we can’t upload when we return home.
Hangman Page and Kenny Omega will be the next team to challenge champions SCU.
Page and Omega defeated Best Friends, Young Bucks, and Santana & Ortiz tonight on Dynamite to become the number one contenders for the AEW Tag Team titles. Towards the end of the match, The Bucks had things under control. Hangman Page however tagged himself in. Omega and Page then got the win, pinning Chuck Taylor following a v-trigger/buckshot lariat combination.
After the match, The Bucks confronted both Omega and Page. Omega managed to talk things over with Matt and Nick and shook hands. Page left without resolving anything.
One match has already been signed for next week’s Dynamite, which will take place on Chris Jericho’s Rock ‘n’ Rager At Sea cruise. Jericho will team with Santana & Ortiz to take on the Jurassic Express.
A number one contender’s match will also take place on the cruise. The winners of Jon Moxley vs. Sammy Guevara and PAC vs. Darby Allin on tonight’s show will face each other next week, with the winner getting a title shot against AEW World champion Chris Jericho.
A second Chris Jericho cruise will officially be happening.
Jericho posted a video today announcing that “Chris Jericho’s Rock ‘N’ Wrestling Rager at Sea part two: Second Wave” will be taking place. Jericho noted that further details will be announced in January.
Dave Meltzer had reported after the first cruise that Jericho was planning on making it an annual thing. This year’s cruise sold out a few days before it took place, with it sailing from Miami, Florida to Nassau, Bahamas from October 27-31.
Jericho partnered with both Ring of Honor and Impact Wrestling for matches on this year’s cruise. ROH’s Sea of Honor tournament (which was won by Flip Gordon) and Kenny Omega, Cody Rhodes & Marty Scurll defeating Jericho & The Young Bucks in a six-man tag match aired on Fite TV and HonorClub on November 3 as a special called “Streaming for Vengeance.” The first cruise also featured podcasts, music, and comedy.
A new match has been signed for Chris Jericho’s upcoming cruise in October.
Jericho made it official this afternoon on Twitter that the Young Bucks, representing Ring of Honor, would take on LAX during his Rock n Wrestling Rager cruise. Konnan initially issued a challenge to the Bucks recently on his podcast. It will be part of a larger interpromotional event featuring talent from both Impact Wrestling and Ring of Honor.
Other matches set for the cruise include another ROH/Impact battle with Marty Scurll (ROH) taking on Sami Callihan (Impact). Along with a Sea of Honor tournament featuring Ring of Honor talent there will also be what is being billed as Alpha Club vs. Bullet Club bout as Chris Jericho will team with the Young Bucks to take on Kenny Omega, Marty Scurll and Cody. None of the matches will be streamed anywhere, according to Jericho.
Tickets for Jericho’s cruise, which runs from October 27-31, are still available here. The cruise will depart from Miami and head to Nassau in the Bahamas.
Chris Jericho announced today an ambitious vacation type of rock and pro wrestling entertainment venture, called “Chris Jericho’s Rock ‘N’ Wrestling Rager at Sea” that will run next year from October 27-31 from Miami to Nassau in the Bahamas.
The cruise aboard Norwegian Jade will feature both rock and pro wrestling entertainment events, including a Sea of Honor tournament presented by Ring of Honor and hosted by Jim Ross.
Names listed as being on the cruise include Diamond Dallas Page, Mick Foley, Ricky Steamboat, Rey Mysterio, Raven, Konnan, Disco Inferno, Hurricane Helms, Lance Storm, Don Callis, and members of the Busted Open radio show.
Musical guests will include Fozzy, Kyng, Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons, The Vies, Jim Breuer (who will also do comedy) and The Loud and Rowdy, Shoot to Thrill, Blizzard of Ozzy and the Dave Spivak Project.
The Sea of Honor tournament will have 12 ROH wrestlers competing in an outdoor wrestling ring.
The cruise starts at the Port of Miami on October 27th, 2018, and will arrive in Nassau on October 29th, and then travel back to Miami on October 31st, ending in the morning. There are more details available on the cruise’s website.
