Chris Jericho Reveals That Sabu Proposed a Match for the Jericho Cruise, Wanted To Jump Off the Boat

– During a recent edition of Talk Is Jericho, AEW star Chris Jericho spoke about the late Sabu. According to Jericho, Sabu reached out to him after wrestling his last match against Joey Janela at Joey Janela’s Spring Break 9 event. Jericho said that Sabu contacted Jericho about wanting to have a match with him. Below are some highlights (via Fightful):

Chris Jericho on Sabu contacting him: “But I will say this too, when you mentioned his last match on his terms, I don’t think I’m talking out of school here in saying that I did get a text from him. As a matter of fact, it’s the last text I got about a week before he passed away, saying, ‘Aye, in six months, you wanna have another match? I wanna have another match.’ So I think he had his retirement match, but still wanted to have other matches and I know that Rob (Van Dam) talked about it where Sabu said it’d be cheating to have a match against Rob because they’re so close. I did get an inquiry from Sabu, who was saying he wanted to have another one and that’s a classic, old-school brother wrestling story too.”

Jericho on Sabu proposing a match with him for the Jericho Cruise: “When Sabu was giving me these DMs, before he actually came on the Jericho Cruise because he did come on the cruise. He was great on it. He did a live podcast which was great. He got to reunite with Luther, his old friend from F.M.W., but he was texting me prior for years and he’d say he wants to come on the cruise and he wants to do a match with me where the loser jumps over the edge into the water. Here’s the classic Sabu part, he goes, ‘Now I’ll beat you, but I’ll still jump over the edge into the water…’ I’ll beat you on your own cruise, and then jump basically to your death.”

The wrestling legend passed away earlier this month. He was 60 years old.