Chris Jericho Reveals Why His Casket Match Against The Undertaker At Saudi Arabia Was Cancelled

Jericho recently spoke to Inside The Ropes and discussed his casket match with The Undertaker at Greatest Royal Rumble which he was subsequently pulled out of in favor of Rusev. This is what he had to say:

“I got a call to be in the Greatest Royal Rumble and I had no interest then I got offered a certain amount where I was like, ‘How much money are you guys getting paid?’”

He then went on to accept the deal, as it was more money than usual. He said:

“Then, f*ck I don’t know a month later I get a text from Vince: ‘Wanna do a casket match against Undertaker’ — yeah, absolutely, duh.’ I’d only worked singles matches against Undertaker like 3 times which is insane, maybe only twice. But I love Undertaker, he’s the best guy to work with, I love it.”

“I actually said to Vince, ‘Yeah I’ll do it but I got a lot of families in Saudi Arabia so I can’t do the job. So Taker and I are throwing jokes back and forth, we’re having a great time. Then I called Vince and told him about this Naito thing on a Monday. It’s into it being super cool about it, a little trepidatious in certain ways but he said I could do it.”

“3 or 4 hours later I get a text saying Rusev is back in the casket match. ‘Why?’ — ‘Well, the Prince in Saudi Arabia wants Rusev for the match.’ I’m like, ‘Okay.’”

“So I would think that possibly knowing Vince and you know New Japan it’s an enemy that won’t make any difference to him. But if they take 1 buy from the Network, that’s the enemy. I think he said I’m not putting Jericho in a highlight match on this show. I know him and Undertaker are going to f*cking kill it and I don’t want to do that if he’s going to show up on New Japan TV a week later, and that makes sense to me.”

Jericho said it was the right call as Y2J vs The Undertaker would have stolen the show at The Greatest Royal Rumble event.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3E2GKW5gek

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h/t to Ringside News for the transcription.