Chris Jericho made an appearance at the Greatest Royal Rumble event in Saudi Arabia a few months ago. Jericho was originally going to face the Undertaker in a casket match. This was eventually scrapped and Jericho competed in the Greatest Royal Rumble match instead.
It turns out that Jericho made a lot of dough for his small appearance.
According to Dave Meltzer in the latest Wrestling Observer Newsletter (subscribe here) Jericho was paid $100,000 for his appearance at the event.
In an interview with the Mirror, Jericho hinted at his massive pay for only a couple of minutes of work:
“It was cool man. It was a long trip for a short period of time – I think I was in the Rumble match for four minutes or something like that. I know they must have been paid a whole lot of money, just by proxy of what I was paid ha ha. I was like ‘oh my gosh, really, you’re going to pay me that to do this? How much are you guys making?’ I always say I don’t do things for money but once in a while opportunities come up where you’re crazy if you don’t do it. It was a quick trip, I don’t remember much about it, because we arrived there, three in the afternoon one day and the next day we’re at the stadium at nine in the morning and we get back to the hotel at one in the morning and we’re gone at 5am. So you’re really quickly in and out. Did I get a chance to do much other than sit in my room and try and get as much sleep as I could and sit in the backstage of a dusty old stadium? No I didn’t. Ha ha. That’s about all I saw.”
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