Colt Cabana flies to Hong Kong on two hours’ notice to save the day at Macau wrestling show
- With Sonjay Dutt stranded on a grounded plane for 14 hours, Jay Lethal calls on his old pal
- Cabana gets the phone call at 10am – and flies out to Hong Kong from Chicago at 1.30pm to fill in at Extreme Wrestling Entertainment’s debut event
When you need a big-name wrestling star to drop everything on two hours’ notice and fly halfway across the world, who are you gonna call? Well, there’s only one person who could fit the bill – enter Colt Cabana.
“At 10am I get a text and a phone call from Jay Lethal saying, ‘Hey, you wanna come to Hong Kong today?’ I said, ‘Sure,’” Cabana recalls. “He said, ‘Ah, nah, the flight’s at 1.30, you won’t be able to make it.’ I go, ‘Are you kidding me?’”
Fast forward less than 24 hours and the two Ring of Honor (ROH) legends are sat on a sofa talking to the South China Morning Post ahead of Tuesday night’s Extreme Wrestling Entertainment event at the Broadway Theatre in Macau.
“I had more than enough time, I was hanging out at my house,” Cabana says.
ROH world champion Lethal is having none of it. “By the way, for me that would not have been enough time, that’s not enough notice for such a trip,” he says, laughing.
Luckily for Cabana, O’Hare International Airport in his native Chicago provides a direct flight to Hong Kong. He jumped on the plane and 15 hours later was in the city, before making the quick journey over to Macau, south China’s answer to Las Vegas.