Jericho Gets 100K Per Match In NJPW

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

Chris Jericho received a reported payday of $100,000 for taking part in the WWE Greatest Royal Rumble match in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia last year. The dollar amount is about the same as Jericho's per-match deal with New Japan Pro Wrestling, according to Dave Meltzer in the latest Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

We originally reported back in November that the income for Jericho's role in WWE's The Greatest Royal Rumble would have been the same whether he had worked the casket match with The Undertaker or competed in The Greatest Royal Rumble. Jericho would obviously participate in the latter and Rusev would see defeat to The Undertaker in the casket match.

Jericho spoke with The Mirror last year about his time competing in the Rumble, mentioning how lucrative the trip was for him.

"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," Jericho said. "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."

Jericho also spoke with Inside The Ropes in October 2018 and went into further detail about the payday from the event in Saudi Arabia.

"I literally was laughing," Jericho said. "A: watching some of the guys f--k up their spots, and B: once again, how much money are they getting paid that they paid me to be in this thing to basically do nothing? Whatever. Now that I know how much money they made from it, they're going to have to pay me triple what they paid," Jericho said.

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For the life of me I can't remember what Jericho did in the GRR

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Okada reportedly makes two hundred and fifty grand a year in New Japan. I’m calling bullshit on Jericho getting a hundred grand per match.

If njpw actually pays him that then they’re making Eric Bischoff type of awful decisions in running the company.

[lionheart21]

Hey, if he's able to get that much, more power to him. At least he's putting on great matches and putting guys over.

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

Jan 29, 2019 14:35:03 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

Okada reportedly makes two hundred and fifty grand a year in New Japan. I’m calling bullshit on Jericho getting a hundred grand per match.

If njpw actually pays him that then they’re making Eric Bischoff type of awful decisions in running the company.

Well he's not really working multiple matches

I think he did 3 matches last year so it's not outside the realm of possibility he could get paid that much for matches

I assume his appearances fit into that fee as well

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Jan 29, 2019 14:40:20 GMT -5 Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) said:

Jan 29, 2019 14:35:03 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

Okada reportedly makes two hundred and fifty grand a year in New Japan. I’m calling bullshit on Jericho getting a hundred grand per match.

If njpw actually pays him that then they’re making Eric Bischoff type of awful decisions in running the company.

Well he's not really working multiple matches

I think he did 3 matches last year so it's not outside the realm of possibility he could get paid that much for matches

I assume his appearances fit into that fee as well

New Japan doesn’t have that type of money to pay per match. Neither does the wwe. Jericho got that in the grr because the dictator’s family are multi billionaires.

If Jericho’s getting that type of money for doing so little work, then if I’m Okada or Naito, I’m pissed off.

[HMARK Center]

Jan 29, 2019 14:35:03 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

Okada reportedly makes two hundred and fifty grand a year in New Japan. I’m calling bullshit on Jericho getting a hundred grand per match.

If njpw actually pays him that then they’re making Eric Bischoff type of awful decisions in running the company.

Okada makes about $2 million a year.

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

Jan 29, 2019 14:48:25 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

Jan 29, 2019 14:40:20 GMT -5 Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) said:

Well he's not really working multiple matches

I think he did 3 matches last year so it's not outside the realm of possibility he could get paid that much for matches

I assume his appearances fit into that fee as well

New Japan doesn’t have that type of money to pay per match. Neither does the wwe. Jericho got that in the grr because the dictator’s family are multi billionaires.

If Jericho’s getting that type of money for doing so little work, then if I’m Okada or Naito, I’m pissed off.

WWE absolutely has that type of money and so does NJPW

It's 100K per match knowing he isn't working 20 matches that year, he's working 3 matches tops

Same with WWE, that was a one off payment not something he's getting paid every time he wrestles

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Jan 29, 2019 14:53:41 GMT -5 HMARK Center said:

Jan 29, 2019 14:35:03 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

Okada reportedly makes two hundred and fifty grand a year in New Japan. I’m calling bullshit on Jericho getting a hundred grand per match.

If njpw actually pays him that then they’re making Eric Bischoff type of awful decisions in running the company.

Okada makes about $2 million a year.

Thanks I was mistaken. Yeah according to Meltzer he makes so much money he doesn’t need a wwe deal.

Ok njpw you have more money than I thought.

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Jan 29, 2019 14:58:13 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

Jan 29, 2019 14:53:41 GMT -5 HMARK Center said:

Okada makes about $2 million a year.

Thanks I was mistaken. Yeah according to Meltzer he makes so much money he doesn’t need a wwe deal.

Ok njpw you have more money than I thought.

And unlike WCW, by all accounts they’ve been in profit for the last couple of years.

[Spider2024]

Unfortunately, high prices such as 10,000 Yen for Cole Slaw sort of offset that.

[eJm]

Jan 29, 2019 15:41:03 GMT -5 @flaminghalo said:

Jan 29, 2019 14:58:13 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

Thanks I was mistaken. Yeah according to Meltzer he makes so much money he doesn’t need a wwe deal.

Ok njpw you have more money than I thought.

And unlike WCW, by all accounts they’ve been in profit for the last couple of years.

Last year was their most profitable year since 2017, which was their most profitable in 20 years.

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

Jan 29, 2019 16:28:00 GMT -5 eJm said:

Jan 29, 2019 15:41:03 GMT -5 @flaminghalo said:

And unlike WCW, by all accounts they’ve been in profit for the last couple of years.

Last year was their most profitable year since last year, which was their most profitable in 20 years.

Yea, this isn't the same struggling promotion from 10-12 years ago

They are making money and obviously showing you they are by their overseas tours and just way they are going about business

Potentially spending 300K on Chris Jericho is an expense they can eat

[Cranjis McBasketball]

He’s probably right about that being all he saw because he was at Calgary Comic Con the next day.

[Mozenrath]

Jan 29, 2019 16:30:19 GMT -5 Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) said:

Jan 29, 2019 16:28:00 GMT -5 eJm said:

Last year was their most profitable year since last year, which was their most profitable in 20 years.

Yea, this isn't the same struggling promotion from 10-12 years ago

They are making money and obviously showing you they are by their overseas tours and just way they are going about business

Potentially spending 300K on Chris Jericho is an expense they can eat

Especially since he's had a marked effect on NJPW World sales.

I'll give Jericho grief sometimes, but he's been singing for his supper. Makes me curious if he's going to be used similarly for AEW, or if he'll be more regular. Then again, we really don't know that much about what the schedule for the company will be like, anyway, if it's going to be a regular weekly show or not.

[honsou]

So basically the only time they used him to little effect was the match with Evil he had at KOPW. Honestly if they are just bringing him in for the really big events 100k is too bad for a guy who is going to get a lot of eyes on your product

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

Jan 29, 2019 16:55:54 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

Jan 29, 2019 16:30:19 GMT -5 Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) said:

Yea, this isn't the same struggling promotion from 10-12 years ago

They are making money and obviously showing you they are by their overseas tours and just way they are going about business

Potentially spending 300K on Chris Jericho is an expense they can eat

Especially since he's had a marked effect on NJPW World sales.

I'll give Jericho grief sometimes, but he's been singing for his supper. Makes me curious if he's going to be used similarly for AEW, or if he'll be more regular. Then again, we really don't know that much about what the schedule for the company will be like, anyway, if it's going to be a regular weekly show or not.

Right

He's earned that 100K per match thanks to the eyes he's put on the product and gotten them more subscriptions in his 2 years there so he's done his job as a draw

I assume if AEW has a weekly show than Jericho is probably as close to full time as possible. If anything he pops in for maybe 2 months a time and then disappears but also considering he still is wanting to work with NJPW, I think he's going to be calculated with his time to keep things open for himself

[Super Duper Dragunov]

Chris Jericho likes to say it's not about the money.

But this has to be the 4th interview in recent memory where he talks about the money.

[Final Countdown Jones]

Jan 29, 2019 14:58:13 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

Jan 29, 2019 14:53:41 GMT -5 HMARK Center said:

Okada makes about $2 million a year.

Thanks I was mistaken. Yeah according to Meltzer he makes so much money he doesn’t need a wwe deal.

Ok njpw you have more money than I thought.

The money wasn't there a few years ago, but as they've grown and steadied their finances, the money has been getting better. They wouldn't be flying in all the foreign talents if they didn't have money to burn, and if anything that has slowed down in the past few years. They won't have the money to throw around huge leverage deals on everybody the way WWE can and that'll probably mean strategically letting people go if there are a lot of raids, but the top guys aren't likely to be going anywhere.

[realist]

"Good God!! How does he survive on that?! Does he not have a family to feed?!"

- Brock Lesnar (probably)

[111111]

I think eith new Japan it might sound alot for a few matches but it's not necessarily the case about the matches as much as it is about getting western fans eyes on new Japan and hoping they'll stick around.