Insight with Chris Van Vliet - AskCVV #120 - BOLD Rumble Predictions, AJ Styles CAN'T Lose, Who Is The WWE Champ Going Into WrestleMania 42?

Episode Date: January 30, 2026

Welcome to AskCVV #120! Happy Rumble weekend! On this episode, Chris Van Vliet gives his bold predictions for the full Royal Rumble card. Who will win the men's Rumble match, the women's Rumble match, will AJ Styles lose to Gunther and be forced to retire and will Drew McIntyre be able to defend his WWE Championship against Sami Zayn? Also, what is the Mount Rushmore of wrestlers with face paint, dream guests and some ridiculous would you rather questions. Quote I'm thinking about: "The amount of good things in your life depends on your ability to notice them." Please support our sponsors: HELIX SLEEP: Flash sale! Go to https://helixsleep.com/cvv for 20% off sitewide! CAR GURUS: Buy or sell your next car today with Car Gurus: https://cargurus.com HIMS: For simple, online access to personalized and affordable care for Hair Loss, ED, Weight Loss, and more, visit https://hims.com/INSIGHT PURE PLANK: The future of core fitness! Use the code CVV to save 10% on Pure Plank designed by Adam Copeland & Christian: https://gopureplank.com/cvv AMERICAN FINANCING: NMLS 182334, nmlsconsumeraccess.org. APR for rates in the 5s start at 6.196% for well qualified borrowers. Call 866-721-3300 for details about credit costs and terms or visit https://Americanfinancing.net/Chris SEAT GEEK: Use my code for 10% off your next SeatGeek order*: https://seatgeek.onelink.me/RrnK/CVV Sponsored by SeatGeek. *Restrictions apply. Max $20 discount NORDVPN: Exclusive deal! https://nordvpn.com/cvv Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! PRIZEPICKS: Download the PrizePicks app today and use code INSIGHT to get $50 bonus credit in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup! For more information about Chris and INSIGHT go to: https://chrisvanvliet.com If you have ever enjoyed any of these episodes, could I ask you to please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcast or Spotify? It takes less than a minute and makes a huge difference in helping to spread the word about the show and also to convince some hard-to-get guests. Follow CVV on social media: Instagram: instagram.com/ChrisVanVliet Twitter: twitter.com/ChrisVanVliet Facebook: facebook.com/ChrisVanVliet YouTube: youtube.com/ChrisVanVliet TikTok: tiktok.com/@Chris.VanVliet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chris The Oh, welcome back to another one here on InSight. I'm CVV. Chris Van Fleet, happy Rumble weekend. Hope you've had a great week so far.

Thank you for being a real one. Thank you for hanging out with me on a Friday, on an Ask CVV episode. And as always, thank you for making Insight the number one wrestling podcast on the planet. Hit a 450 splash

on that follow button, wherever you're listening. right now and leave the word rumble in the comments if you're listening on Spotify. I can't believe it. We're now less than a month away from the next Insight Live happening in Chicago, February 27th, the day before Elimination Chamber. We'll be announcing the guest here in the next, I'd say, two-ish weeks, but tickets are almost sold out. There's like a dozen left. So if you've been thinking about it, if you've been in the group chat talking about going, I would grab those tickets now while you still can. CVVTix.com because once it sells out,

that's it. There's no more tickets left. I said this last week that I had a blast in Albuquerque, and I did. And you've already seen one of the interviews that we recorded there. That episode with the Hardee's that aired yesterday, one of my favorites I've ever done. It was the first. It was the first time I've ever had the Hardys together for a sit-down podcast interview like that. Like, yes, and I mentioned it during the interview. I've done an interview with them together. 2017, they were in Ring of Honor. It was the day before they returned to WWE for that insane return at WrestleMania 33 in Orlando. But I've never had them, like, sit down for over an hour, just chatting about their career. Also, how cool was it for them to just chat amongst themselves?

loved it. And from all the comments that I've been seeing, all the messages, all the emails, seems that you guys have been loving it as well. So thank you. I appreciate you taking the time

to listen to that interview. And then earlier in the week, Kit, Will, son, what a chat. And I just love that Kit Wilson's star continues to rise every single week.

It's amazing with just a little tweak can do, a little character tweak, how much that can change. And obviously, one of the greatest theme songs going right now. You know, that doesn't hurt either. I recorded last week's Ask CVB before I went to Impact. I had no idea that number one, I'd be sitting where I was sitting. I was in the front row. You can see me and my buddy Zeus quite a bit during the broadcast. I also had no idea that they were going to put me on the show. They were in a commercial

break, and the producer came over to me and a camera guy came over, and they were like, all right, So we're going to come back from commercial, and it's going to be on you. And I was like, oh, all right. I got to think of like a thing to do. So what you saw was what you saw. And thank you for all of the messages about that. As you know, I am a massive TNA fan. The first time I ever sat front row at a TNA show was 2007 in Oshawa, Ontario.

So 19 years later, it's full circle. And I love TNA even more now than I did then. And I just love wrestling. This is the thing. I love wrestling. I was in London for Smackdown the week before that. Then we had TNA in Albuquerque, New Mexico. And then A.E.W. is coming out my way, Ontario, California on February 11th.

So if you're in the Inland Empire, if you're in that era, I would love to see you in Ontario, California for that one. Stop by, say hello. Welcome to our weekly finisher. Welcome to Ask CVV number 1-2-0. You didn't know? Addition. Also, ask CVV number 1-2-0.

Only a two-count addition. Ask CVV number one, two, Setto, meetto edition. And I got one more. I was dig, well, I guess we could do, let's do two more. Ask CVV number 20 minute time limit edition. No one just came to me. And then one more. Ask CVV number one, two,

ground zero in your house edition. That is a deep cut. Who remembers that pay-per-view from 1997? The main event, Sean Michaels versus the Undertaker. Also, Brett Hart defeated the Patriot to retain the WWF championship. Also, the pay-per-view were the headbangers won their only WWF tag team championship. I just recorded an interview with Headbanger Mosh earlier this week. It's an interview you'll be seeing, I believe, next week.

He has a fantastic new autobiography out called Beneath the Skirt. It's hilarious. I can't recommend it enough. Go check out his website, chasmosh.com. So, C-H-A-Z-M-O-S-H dot com to buy the book, and he'll send you an autographed version, which is available on the website. Or you can also buy it on Kindle or Amazon. But Beneath the Skirt, fantastic.

And he has so many great stories from the Attitude Era. If you've got an idea for next week, or to ask CVV number one to one, 21 was my baseball number. It's a number that just like, I don't know, means something special. Everybody has a favorite number, right? But every time I see 21, I just get a little extra excited. So if you have an idea for Ask CVV number 112, 121, let me know in the comments on Spotify.

Send it in on social media using the hashtag AskCV. or shoot me an email CVV at chris van vleet dot com also send in your questions for ask cvvvv number one to one the same way we'll have so much to talk about next week with the fallout from the royal rumble we will officially be on the road to russomania with a bit more of a clear picture for where we're headed for april my goodness which means we've got a lot to talk about with this weekend the royal rumble tomorrow early one tomorrow 11 a in the time zone where I live, 2 p.m. Eastern and then fill it in whichever time zone that you live in, but there's a lot to talk about here. We'll kick this off with this one from Jacob E. Phillips on Instagram who says, is L.A. Knight? Yeah. Winning the Rumble, or is that a far-fetched prediction? I don't think that's that far-fetched of a prediction at all. And this is just a polite way, Jacob, of saying, give me your Royal Rumble predictions. I love it. On paper, this Royal Rumble has all the makings of being a classic. I think we're going to see some big returns. I think we're going to see some

dominant performances. But perhaps the thing that I love the most about this is there's no clear-cut winner, especially in the Men's Rumble. We'll get into all that. But the thing I love about this card as a whole is there's stakes for every match. Remember with Survivor Series. We were talking about like none of the matches felt that important because there weren't really

any stakes. And like this is kind of an issue that seems to exist every year with the war games. It's just like, it's just a match. It's cool. You see 10 of the biggest men

and 10 of the biggest women in a match five on five against each other. It's cool double rings and cages, but there's no real stakes here. Like the winners get what? Exactly. You get like bragging rights.

And here we are two months after Survivor Series, and no one's even talking about, like, hey, remember when my team won? What I'm saying is there were no stakes there. Every single match at the Royal Rumble has major stakes. The Rumble matches, they're obvious. A title shot at WrestleMania. And we should be clear about that one, because it seems to get misconstrued every single

year. When you win the Royal Rumble, you get a title shot at WrestleMania, not a main event spot at WrestleMania. and there's many examples of Royal Rumble winners not main eventing at WrestleMania. But then the other two matches here, AJ Style's career is on the line versus Gunther, and Drew McIntyre putting the WWE Championship

on the line against Sammy Zane. I'd like to point out, by the way, that I predicted Sammy Zane would win that fatal four-way match a Saturday night's main event. I predicted that weeks ago when we saw who the eight contestants were going to be, that we're going to be facing off to be in that fatal four-way match.

I said, like, look, just follow the lines here. It all makes sense. He's from Montreal. It's in Montreal. It's going to be Sammy Zane. It just makes sense. I also predicted the rest of that Saturday Night's main event card perfectly.

This one, the Royal Rumble, that's going to be a little bit tougher. And I love that. I love that it's not that obvious. Let's start with the Women's Rumble. 15 women have declared, which means there's 15 spots. still open. I love this. I'm sure that more names will get announced tonight, but I just love that

there's just a little bit more mystery. We don't know, at least right now, half of the people. Great. So let's go over the names here. Ria Ripley, Charlotte Flair, Oscar Bailey, Lyra Valcuria, Eoskei, Alexa Bliss, Liv Morgan, Roxanne Perez, Raquel Rodriguez, Chelsea Green, Lash Legend, Nia Jacks, Julia, Jordan Grace, Maxine Du, Bree. are the 15 that have been confirmed across Raw, Smackdown, and Saturday night's main event. Yeah, maybe a few more will get added here tonight. If we look at the odds at MyBooky, and when you sign up at My Bookie, use my code. CVV, you'll get a very nice welcome bonus there.

And look, if you think that this rumbles predictable, then why not put your money where your mouth is? Liv Morgan's a fairly big favorite, and the numbers have shifted on this over the last week or so. She's now a minus 125, so she's the favorite. This is what's really interesting about the odds. Next in line is Bianca Bel Air. I love that we're talking about Bianca Bel Air since we haven't seen her in WWE since she got injured since she broke her finger during that insane three-way match at WrestleMania last year. So we haven't seen her since 2025. It's been almost a full year. It's been nine months since we saw her in the ring.

I loved it just the idea of her being ready to go. Because she hasn't been confirmed. Bianca Bel Air has not been, we don't, I'm sure she's been cleared if she's going to be in the rumble, but the news hasn't come out that she's been cleared. We don't know, but I love that it's just the threat that Bianca Bel Air is just so good that it's the threat that she could win. The rest of the odds here, so it's Liv Morgan, Bianca Bel Air,

Ria Ripley, Tiffany Stratton, Becky Lynch, Roxanne Perez. Those are the top six. Should I give you more? Should I give you more of the odds here? Then Charlotte Flair, then Lyra, then Eoskeye, Stephanie Vakere, Jade Cargill, Niajax. There's the top 10 odds on my bookie.

I think that the women's is a little bit more obvious. I feel like Liv Morgan tells a great story here. I feel like that one makes a lot of sense. just feels like we've been getting this Liv Morgan, Stephanie Vicar, tease for a while now. And I think the plan is for this to go into WrestleMania 42, because we've also got Jordan Grace and Jade Cargill

doing their thing for the WWE Women's Championship. That one feels like that would be my pick. I'd go with Liv Morgan here. But like I said, Bianca Bel Air in the mix, it's dangerous. And then you can't count out Rio Ripley. And then I also feel like you're going to see maybe not a win, but like Lash Legend has the ability here. Like we're seeing her booked as like just a badass now with Nia Jacks. I feel like Lash Legend has the ability here to have a real standout moment.

Maybe it's Lash Legend having a ton of eliminations here and people kind of turn their head going, oh, okay, wow. But really interesting odds here when you look at this. they've got odds right now of what number will the women's winner be, odd or even? And the odds on that are even. The odds are the exact same on that one. They've also gotten here, who will eliminate Ria Ripley? Who do you think is going to eliminate Ria Ripley?

It's interesting that that's one of the odds here. Liv Morgan is the number one, then Tiffany Stratton, then Lash Legend, and then Bianca Bel Air. It'll be very interesting to see how this one shakes out. And again, we're going to see much clearer picture for what we're looking at for WrestleMania 42. As we look at the Men's Rumble, I just feel like it's a different story here compared to last year.

I feel like when we went into this last year, it was like, well, John Cena's probably going to win this thing, right? And if it's not him, maybe it's one of these other two people. John Cena was in the final two. Jay Uso obviously ended up winning this thing. went on to have that moment at WrestleMania 41, beating Gunther, becoming the World Heavyweight Champion.

But it was like, it just felt more like, all right, we've got like more of a clear picture here. When you look at the men's rumble, I think there's like four to five names that if they won the rumble, you'd go, oh, yeah, okay, okay, I'm on board. Let's see where that goes. Let's go through the names that are confirmed

for the men's rumble. 14 have been confirmed right now, so 16 spots to go. Here's who's confirmed. Roman Raines, Cody Rhodes, Ray Mysterio, J. Uso, Gunther. So Gunther pulling double duty here. Solo Sacoa, Penta, Dragon Lee, Jacob Fatu, Obafemi, Bronbreaker, Bronson Reed,

Logan Paul, Austin Theory, Javon Evans, Our Truth. Roman Raines is the odds-on favorite right now. when you look at my bookie. It's Roman Raines. I'll give you the top 10 here as well. Roman Reins, then Gunther, which is so interesting because

Gunther's gonna have a match earlier that night. But he's Gunther, right? This guy just doesn't get tired. Roman Raines, Gunther, brawn breaker, Sammy Zane, who also has a match that night and has not officially been declared

for the Royal Rumble, and I guess the Royal Rumble's full from what I've heard. We'll get into that in a second. Cody Rhodes, L.A. Knight, Yeah, Jacob Fawtu, C.M. Punk, who I don't really think that one makes sense. I don't know why the World Heavyweight Champion would be in the Royal Rumble, but I guess stranger things have happened in the wild role of wrestling. Then Obafemi and Jay Uso rounding out the top 10 odds there. I thought it was such an interesting moment on Raw this last week, where Finn Ballard declared for the Royal Rumble. And Adam Pierce was like, oh, actually, sorry, it's full. It's never happened before. We've never seen that.

And I just love that it continues to set up this story for Finn to try to find his way into the Royal Rumble, for Finn to try to make that rematch with CM Punk happen in some sort of way. So, like, I'm thinking, they're kind of preparing us for this. Who's Finn Baller going to take out? Who's Finn Baller going to attack to take their spot and enter the Royal Rumble? don't do this to Kit Wilson. You can't do this to Kit Wilson. Anybody but Kit Wilson.

Kit Wilson's going to have a standout moment. Whether Kit Wilson is in the Rumble for 10 seconds, 10 minutes, or an hour in 10 minutes, Kit Wilson's going to have a moment that we're going to be talking about the day after. I don't know what it's going to be, but I just can't wait. There's so much momentum behind Kit and this new character. I'm excited. Obafemi is going to have a standout performance, maybe even Obafemi in the final four.

But I think that this is going to be a star-making moment for Obafemi. Whoever he's going to have the most eliminations. It's not going to be a record, but Obafemi is going to have the most eliminations in this Royal Rumble. What's going to be most interesting here is who's the person he's going to eliminate that's going to set up that first main roster feud for Obafemi? because we saw Obafembe, December 13th, Washington, D.C., Saturday night's main event,

John Cena's last match, we saw that Obafemmy could hang. That match with Cody Rhodes was fantastic until Drew McIntyre came in and blew up the whole thing, which was great, though, and protected both guys in the match, and then ended up continuing to fuel this feud that we had with Drew McIntyre and Cody Rhodes. Obafemey's going to have such a standout moment here, but who wins? who wins and it's just not there's not a clear picture here right now

and what I usually like to do and I'm sure you do as well is you reverse engineer this back from WrestleMania which is exactly what we're doing on the women's side just don't know because I feel like we had a wrench

thrown into the plans here and I love it with Drew McIntyre winning the WWE championship beating Cody Rhodes on an episode of Smackdown by the way it just feels like anything can happen right now.

Like, this year has started off hot. There's been so many, like, surprises. There's been so many title changes. There's been so many reasons that you need to tune in for Raw and for SmackDown. And in previous years, right around this time of year, we'd go, all right, Roman has the title, or Cody has the title. And you go, all right, well, they're going to retain it at it, Royal Rumble, and they're

going to either retain it at elimination chamber or not even put it on the line. And they're not going to defend it on Rar Smackdown. So, okay, it's going to be Cody versus whoever wins the Rumble or Roman versus whoever wins the Rumble, and, well,

there we go. I just feel like it's so different this year. Drew McIntyre might not even be the champion after tomorrow. Like, it just feels like things are a little bit dare I say, dangerous. We don't know who the champion's going to be after tomorrow.

We can make our predictions. We can make our wild guesses, but we don't know. And then the title could be put on the line really at any point in time. Raw, Smackdown. Who knows? So the question is, is it going to be the current champions now? Is it going to be CM Punk? Is it going to be Drew McIntyre?

By the same token, Is it going to be Jade Cargill? Is it going to be Stephanie Vicar? And that's what's so interesting here is, like, things are a little dangerous. Things are a little dangerous. But as I look at the odds right now, as I look at just the landscape that we have in front of us,

I'm going with Roman Raines. He's been my pick since we first started talking about picks a month ago, and it just still makes sense. for me. But again, you look at this, and if Goonther won, you'd go, oh, yeah, all right, Gunther won, cool. I presented a scenario where Sammy Zane loses the championship to Drew McIntyre and then enters the Royal Rumble, wins the Royal Rumble. Well, yeah, okay, huh, that one could make sense. Cody Rhodes could make sense. Cody Rhodes could make sense, and then we could, It's like I keep saying, maybe we're fine on our way to Cody Rhodes versus Roman

Raines three, perhaps with a twist. Maybe it's the Cody heel twist. I don't know. I still don't feel like we're going to get there, but I said the same thing about a John Cena heel turn. And I was also sitting there in Roger Center in Toronto going, oh, they did it. Oh, what if Seth Rollins came back? Like we're talking about surprise.

rises here. We're talking about big returns. I think we're going to see Chad Gable back. I still think we're going to see Chris Jericho make his WWE return, although I should point out, and I did something with Sean Ross Sapp on Wednesday. I was on The Hump if you subscribe to Fightful on YouTube or if you watch Fightful's videos. He was saying, as of, that was Wednesday, As of today, Chris Jericho, his profile is still on AEW's website, and they're on it. Usually when someone's been released or someone's contract is up, that's it. They're off. I don't know.

Does that mean he's still under contract or does that just mean that his profile is up on AEW's website? But if we're talking about returns, why not Seth Rawlins? He's worked us so many times in the past. I think we can all agree this one is a real injury. But what if he's rehabbed? What if he's ready to go? Seth Rollins, hard to bet against him. But this is just the cool thing about this.

I think there's going to be a lot of standout performances. I think there's going to be a lot of like, oh, man, hmm, that person looks great. But I think there's like four, five people that if they won the Rumble, you'd go, okay, here we go. This just feels like, it feels like a relatively new-ish, feeling like off the top of my head i can't tell you the last time a rumble felt this unpredictable and maybe it's just because like yeah roman rains is the favor because he's roman rains because he held the title for 1,316 days but also because we don't see him on tv all the time it's like it's like he's sitting at the table playing poker but he's just sitting there with a poker face we don't

you know it doesn't show his hand i feel like that's what we got here how does roman rain's into all of this. But around this time of year, Roman Raines starts to turn it up and dial it in. It gets just like laser-focused around WrestleMania season. I'm going with Roman Raines. I'm going with Liv Morgan. And we'll see how this all shakes out. Another interesting prop bet here. the total entry number of the women's Royal Rumble winner, is it over or under 22.5? Hmm. That's an interesting one.

Same with the men. Over or under 22.5. On the men's side, they're saying it's going to be an entry that is under 22.5. So 1 through 22. On the women's side, they're going with the same. So they're saying it's going to be a, oh, no, sorry, over. Oh, yes, okay, so over.

They're saying it's going to be a later entry. It's not 1 through 22. It's 23 through 30 that's going to win. Very interesting. Love to hear what your predictions are. You know, it's hard to believe that it's already been over a month since John Cena's final match. And I'm grateful to say that I was able to be there in person in D.C. with some amazing tickets from Seekek

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It felt like we needed to read that out as we get into our next question here. Geyser Squeezer. Zen Strikes 67 on Instagram says, do you think AJ Stiles will actually retire? at the Rumble. I know that Shinski Nakamura put out this post, basically saying that he had a conversation with A.J. Stiles, and A.J. told him that he was going to retire at the Rumble.

This post was up for a few hours, and then it was mysteriously taken down. Was it taken down because he wasn't supposed to put this up? Or was it taken down because this was a red herring that was put out, that WWE knew that everything was. would read this and attach to it and treat it like gospel and go, oh, this means he's losing. This means he's retiring.

Is it a red herring? I believe it's a red herring. I just think that AJ Styles said something on Raw. That really hit home for me. And I know that this was his like baby face way of saying like, cheer for me, I'm going to win this match. But he said, if 2025 was the year of John Cena. And why can't 2026 be the year of AJ Stiles?

And it just leads me to believe that there's more for him to do here. I don't think this is it. I think there's one more title run in there, even if it's a short one. I think maybe there's even a match in TNA that happens here. I don't think it ends tomorrow. But I think the big question, though, from there is where does the story go if AJ beats Goenther? or is it some sort of a funky finish here? Do we get some shenanigans in this finish?

Because I just can't see with the run that Gunther's been on. He's the guy who retired Goldberg. He's the guy who had John Sina's final match and made John Sina tap out to end his career. How can he lose now a month and a half later to A.J. Stiles? And this is obviously no way I might. trying to discredit AJ Styles. You know how much I love AJ Styles. I'm just talking strictly from a storyline perspective here. You're building up Goonther to be untouchable. This monster heel,

I just can't see him losing, which is the dilemma I have here because I can't see A.J. Stiles losing and his career being over. The thing I love about where AJ Styles is at in his career is that he's going to go out on his terms. Like, I've, I've, I've said this a thousand times, but why not say it a thousand and one? Christopher Daniels said something to me during the interview that we had last year. Christopher Daniels, a great friend of AJ Styles. They've had so many amazing matches against each other. He said, every wrestler works their last match.

Not every wrestler knows when their last match will be. And I think they were AJ's at in his career right now. It's like where John Cena was at. It's like, all right, the end is near. I can see the finish line, but I'm going to give it my all. until that final match. I just think there's more for AJ Stiles here. I don't know if this is any sort of an indication or not.

I'm thinking probably not. This is probably nothing we should read into, but it became news later this week, so why not? WWE renewed the trademarks for the phenomenal A.J. Stiles and for the P1 logo. I think even if AJ Stiles retired last Monday on Raw, they would be renewing the trademark.

I think that they'll be printing plenty of AJ Styles merchandise long after he's retired. I don't think that this is any sort of indication that he's staying on and wrestling more. I think that those trademarks will be renewed for many, many, many years to come. But I'm going AJ Styles to not lose this match. I'm not saying AJ Styles is going to win the match,

but I just can't see AJ losing and he has to lose in order to retire. What a match is going to be, though. This version of AJ Stiles versus this version of Gunther. Daisy Carter on Facebook has an interesting point here. Do you think that AJ Styles ending his, quote, WWE career means that he could still possibly do a TNA run

and maybe retire as the champ there? I've seen a lot of people point this out, that AJ Stiles in his promo said that this is the end of his WWE career. I think it's just that he sees himself as a WWE guy. I don't think that that was said for it to be read into in any sort of way. I could be wrong about this, but I just think he was putting over the company

and talking about like WWE career. I understand how poetic it is that AJ Stiles debuted at the Royal Rumble in 2016. Here we are. 10 years later, it's the Royal Rumble. I get all of that. I just think that there's more for AJ Stiles to do. And maybe there's something we don't know.

Maybe AJ Stiles can't go. It sure doesn't look like it to me. But if that's the case, and this is his last match, maybe that all adds up. But I don't think that's the case. If you listen to the interview that I did with AJ Stiles last year, it was actually on insight that he broke the news, that he was not going to wrestle into his 50s.

He was, he's 48 now, he turns 49, this summer. He said he will not wrestle when he's 50. So, like, he already had this plan. And I asked him, do you think about retirement? He's like, yeah, think about it a lot. And he, I'm paraphrasing here, but he says he has an idea for what he wants to do. And if it pans out, we'll know.

So has it not happened yet? Has it not panned out yet? Or is this the thing that's happening? I don't know. I've seen some people like kind of connecting the dots together when you look at AJ Sal's last six months-ish. It's been some great matches.

Actually, even just over the last month. Another match against Shinsky Nakamura. So many throwbacks there. How can you not be romantic about pro wrestling? So good. A match against CM Punk. man, I know we got a funky finish there, but that's the first time that they've squared off in a ring

in what, 20 years? 22 years, I believe. The match with Finn Baller. And then we'd take it back last year, that incredible match, my favorite match of the year, the one with John Cena. And then I guess if we take it back even a year before that, man, how can you not talk about

that beautiful moment in Leone, France? backlash, the crowd singing, here's what I'm, you know, amazing. And I saw the meme. What if we, what if this has been AJ Styles retirement tour this whole time? I don't think that's the case.

I just think that there's, there's more. And I would love Daisy for that more to include a match in TNA. I think a dream match right now of like generation versus generation. It's a match a lot of people talk about. Leon Slater versus AJ Stiles.

Leon Slater, the X-Division champion, AJ Stiles, the guy who made the X-Division championship famous, the guy who put one of the guys who put the X-Division on the map, one of the guys who put TNA on the map, for being completely honest here. It's a match that, you know, gets thrown around all the time when we talk about dream matches between TNA and WWE, now that that forbidden door, if you will, is open.

now that those are possible matches. And how good? How good was Leon Slater versus Carmelo Hayes? Oh, man, what a match that was in London. Oh, my goodness. I've gone off on a tangent here, but I digress.

I don't think AJ Stiles loses this match. Email from Jordan Waters, who says, Hey, Chris, Jordan from Calgary here. Quick question for you. I know a lot of people thought that Sammy would win the run. and then win the big one at WrestleMania. But given the results of

Saturday night's main event, it seems like they might give him the belt at the Rumble. And it made me wonder, do you think there's a chance that Sammy wins at the Rumble only to have a returning Kevin Owens win the Royal Rumble match, which would ultimately lead to the epic rematch of

Kevin Owens versus Sammy Zane? Thanks for everything, Jordan. I love that that's a possibility, too. We don't know the status of Kevin Owens. And again, that's what makes us exciting that there's like there's so many wild cards here there's so many question marks men's and women's rumble i don't see sammy zane winning this match if i'm making a prediction i don't think sammy zane beats drew mcintyre i think it's going to be again the same storyline of like

so close but doesn't get it so with that said i will not be surprised if he enters the royal Rumble. It just seems to add up to this storyline, this mentality he has, this mindset of, I need my son to see me win the WWE championship. I think that they're going to tug at our heartstrings with that. That's going to be the, maybe not the same type of thing, but Cody had finished the story. I think that this is going to be along the same lines as that, of like, let's get you emotionally invested into them. I'm going with Drew McIntyre to win that one. I'm going with AJ Stiles to not lose.

Liv Morgan, Roman Raines. Those are my Royal Rumble, 26 predictions. I've been to quite a few of the last rumbles. I will be watching this one from Cosm. If you don't know what Cosm is, it's like one of the big, like, dome-like screens, it's like the sphere, like a smaller sphere. I'll be at Cosm in Los Angeles. If you're going to be watching it there, say what's up. Let's chat wrestling. Tell me how amazing you think

my rumble picks are, or maybe how terrible you think they are. I'd love to hear what yours are. But I just think it's cool that we don't know what's going to happen. Zach Mason on Spotify says, What's up, CVV? Real, real, real one here. I love the live show in Indian. Indianapolis last rumble. Oh, Zach, thank you for being there for the very first Insight Live. Random question for you, do you wear two watches? Also, are you left-handed? I've got this question a few times now, so I figured we should officially address it here. I wear a watch on my right wrist, and I wear a whoop strap, like a fitness tracker on my left wrist. And it tracks like your heart rate, your heart rate variability.

It tracks how good or bad your sleep is. It tracks all kinds of things. So I've been rocking the whoop on and off for years. I've been back in on mode now for five months or so. I was actually talking to Grayson Waller about it during our episode because he wears a whoop. You see quite a few people. If you know what you're looking for, L.A. Knight, sorry.

L.A. Knight. yeah he wears one we talked about that during our interview years ago it's quite a few people do so no i do not wear two watches no i am not left-handed technically speaking i i do quite a few things like ambidextrous my wife seems to think rv seems to think that i'm ambidextrous i'm not like the true definition of it i can't do things equally as well with my left hand that i came on my right hand. I'm a true righty. Like, I write with my right hand. I throw with my right hand. But I shoot left-handed in hockey. I golf left-handed and I bat left-handed. And then, like, she'll point out that, like, when we're in the kitchen, like, you know, like, you're mixing

something in a bowl, I'll mix it with my left hand. Or, like, when she'll, like, pass me a jar to, like, unscrew the lid because, you know, I'm such a super strong dude. I will do that with my left hand. So I don't know. I'm a little kind of all over the place with those things. When I fish, I can do that. I can reel both hands. Usually with a spinning reel, left-handed,

generally speaking, with a baitcaster, right-handed when I'm doing like throwing a bait, like a crank bait or a spinner bait or like a jerk bait, like something that you're like casting and chucking wine, But I when I'm flipping, and I know we've gone way into the weeds here, if you're not a fisherman, but if I'm like flipping and pitching, I will hold the rod with my right hand and reel with my left hand. So truly a righty, but I think it's because my dad is a true lefty. And I think just growing up, who are you playing catch with?

Who are you hitting the ball in the yard with? For me, it was my dad. And he bats and throws left-handed. I didn't get the throwing left-handed from him, but maybe I got the batting, right, left-handed from him. So not two watches, not left-handed. But what an interesting observation, Zach. Sean Radigan on Facebook says,

Ask CVV number one. No one has won the Rumble from the number 20 spot edition. Ooh, I like that. Hey, CVV, I hope all is well. I'm on a flight to Riyadh for the Royal Rumble right now. My question is a three option. Would you rather? The first ever three option.

Would you rather? Okay, buckle up, people. Woo! So, would you rather enter the Royal Rumble, but be eliminated quicker than Santino Morella was? Santina Maralla. Or, this is number two. enter and last over an hour but get eliminated from a returning hornswago ah i love dylan what an honor that would be or enter and win the royal rumble

but then get speared by roman reigns every day for a year well i don't think i want to get speared every day for the next 365 days Also, if I won the Royal Rumble, how weak would it make my character look if I got speared every single day? Like, not even just on the televised shows. I'm getting speared every day. And I'm sure they're showing this on TV. Like, oh, yeah, here's how Chris Van Vleet spent his Monday.

Here's how he spent his Tuesday. Here's how he spent his Wednesday. You get the point. So I don't think we'd go with that one. Winning the Rumble would be cool, but who wants to see me win the Rumble. I think I'd have to go with, everybody remembers the Santino Morella elimination.

People don't even remember who won that Royal Rumble, but they remember the Santino Marela elimination. It was the 2009 Royal Rumble, and Randy Orton won it by eliminating Triple H, but you already knew that, right? My point is, the moment is so iconic that people,

might not even know the year. Again, they might not know who won the Rumble, but they remember that moment. Going for over an hour, though, that would be pretty great, but can you name all the people that have lasted over an hour in the Royal Rumble? And then if Hornswag is returning, and I've already been in the Rumble for an hour, is he returning in number 30? I would love to see Hornswagon on the Rumble. Ah, love that guy. I was a guest on Ken Anderson's podcast this week. Love that guy, too. Oh, Ken's the best. But I was asked, who's been the most surprising guest?

And I said, Hornswoggle is way funnier than anyone gives him credit for. Like, the character's funny. Hornswoggle's a funny character and had funny moments. But Dylan, the man, Dylan, the person, is hilarious. Like, if Dylan wanted to be a stand-up comedian and, like, never wrestle again, or if he wanted to just be a stand-up comedian and never put any focus into wrestling, he'd be just supremely talented he is supremely talented he would have such a great career dylan is so so funny to last in the rumble for over an hour and get eliminated by horn swoggle

that sounds like i'd be taking a lot of bumps sounds like i'd be i don't know i think i'm gonna go with the santina more raleigh route that'd be a lot more fun i think yeah give me the give me the one point nine second elimination i always like to point a point out of this out. Santino, on my show, said that he knows how he could beat that record. He says there's a way for it to happen. Could it be this year? I mean, there's a partnership here with TNA in WWE. Santino Morella is in TNA. Oh, wouldn't it be so cool to see that happen? Oh, I would love it. Speaking about Santino, isn't it crazy that Santino can go from that crazy,

iconic, fastest Royal Rumble elimination ever in 2009 and then two years later, have everyone think that he's going to win the Royal Rumble? Wild. And I still, I will stand by this. I think that Santino should have won the 2011 Royal Rumble. That would have been, it's one of those butterfly effects, I think. Hane Saras.

Sarik-O-S-K-Y. Boy, that's one of my worst pronunciations yet. I am so sorry. Sarik-O-S-K-E-E-T. Hi, Chris. Very important question for you. And again, I am so sorry for mispronouncing your name. If you've got a name like Van V-V-L-V-E-T, maybe you phonetically put it out, like V-L-E-E-T, and then I won't butcher it as terribly as I butcher some of these names. Again, I am so sorry. Hi, Chris, very important question for you. Would you rather eat every meal at Waffle House for the rest of your life? Or be speared by Braun Breaker every time you eat a carb.

Best regards from Finland. Every time you eat a carb means once per meal, not per bite. Well, Waffle House does have a quite diverse menu. and I do like waffles. I know they're not just known for waffles. I'm no muscle man, Malcolm. I don't know the Waffle House menu back and forth and inside and out like he does, and apparently all of his guests.

I have dined at Waffle House maybe five times. This may ruffle some feathers. This may upset some people. But Waffle House is... it's not as good as IHop. It's certainly not as good as Cracker Barrow. I dare I say, I would rather eat at Denny's. But I get it.

I get that Waffle House is open all the time. I understand that it's usually around some of the smaller towns, some of the smaller markets where wrestling shows are occurring. I get that it is a wrestling staple. I understand that. Hence, why Malcolm's question always. hits people in the feels. Like, you see the reaction, right? Like, people aren't like, huh, what? Like, recently, Malcolm asked that question to John Cena. And John Cena, like, instantly was like,

oh, yeah, here it is. And, like, rattled off the order. Like, it's just a thing. But I, to get speared every time I eat a carb, I mean, I love pizza way too much to even consider that. And I know I make it sound like I eat pizza like every day. I eat pizza like twice a month. But boy, when those pizza days roll around. Tomorrow's going to be a pizza day. Royal Rumble Pizza Night. Baby.

Anyway, sorry. Just get excited when I think about pizza. I guess I'll go with Waffle House. I mean, you can eat like my typical when I go to Waffle House. It's nothing fancy. steak and eggs, scrambled eggs, hash browns. And usually I'll, like, throw a side waffle in there, because why not? The pecan waffles also very good.

But I'm going to go with Waffle House. And I guess, yeah, not get speared by Braun Breaker every time I eat a carb. Email from Hunter that says, real, real, real, real one here. I asked a question at the first ever Insight Live in Indy and listened to Ask CVV every Friday. That's enough reels, right? I think so. Another person who attended the first Insight Live in Indy. Amazing.

That was a year ago. Crazy. Carlito, what a guest. First off, I wanted to thank you. Your interview with The Rock, where he gave you the advice to go skin to skin with your newborn, was the reason that I did that when my son was born in April of 2024. Wow. Amazing.

Congrats on your baby boy. I've always looked up to him, and that was a very special thing for me. Now we have our second on the way, and her due date is May 19th. Some very special people were born on May 19th. Like Chris Van Vlite, Maxine Dupree, George St. Pierre, Andre the Giant. We went through this last week. Don't tell Kane, May 19th. My question for you is simple.

what is your absolute favorite part of being a father? There are so many things that bring me joy when it comes to this, and I just want to hear your take slash advice. I'm hoping to bring my son, Lucas, to meet you at Squared Circle Expo in a few months. Thank you, Hunter Spa. Well, congrats on the baby boy. Congrats on the little girl on the way,

and I will see you at Squared Circle Expo at the end of March in Indianapolis. I think it's my fourth time being there. Fourth or fifth? What a blast. every year, but I can't wait to see you guys there in Indianapolis. My favorite part, man, you know, make me get all sentimental and emotional here. Because I just, I turn it into just a mush ball when I think about my kids.

I think that the thing I love most about being a father is looking at the world through their eyes. Everything's new to them. They're seeing things, experiencing things, for the first time. And I'm not talking about, like, a huge, life-changing events. I'm talking about things like seeing Christmas lights

or, like, I don't know, like, the first time that, like, we were walking on the beach and Logan saw someone surfing. Daddy, what's that? It's like, oh, man, that sense of wonder. I love it. Because I feel like as we get older, we just get more and more and more jaded.

and that sense of wonder has brought out a real sense of wonder in me. And as you know, I'm already like a pretty curious person that feel like that's why I do the job

that I do. Like, I love talking to people. I love learning. I love just like exploring that curiosity of like, man, if I'm curious about this, if I'm asking this question,

other people are going to want to know the answer to this too, right? But I think that's it. And there's also like, there's a little, little moments where, like, I come home from being away for a day or two or sometimes hours. And, like, Logan will, she's two and a half, she'll run down the driveway and, like, throw herself into my arms. Cooper can't walk yet. He's real close, 13 months and, like, standing up, but hasn't taken the first step yet.

I'll report back because I feel like it's any day now. I'll see him and he's just da da da da da da da da da da da da da da those are the moments and i am so hyper aware that little kids are only little kids for just such a short period of time like this is it and i'm trying to take in every moment i can as much as i can and just trying to like be as present as i possibly can and it's not always easy. And if you're a parent, you know, you're balancing a lot of things. So I think it's that. It's just like, it's also knowing that you're their entire world. And like there's a lot of responsibility that comes with that. And there was a lot of what Rock told me in that answer that like, I took to heart. It says like your why is going to change. It might not make sense right now,

you know, with me saying it, but like your why is going to change and your focus is going to shift. And it's like, oh, man, it was right about all of it. Still feel like I need to do a much longer interview with The Rock. We could just talk about that for an hour or so. But thank you for the great question, Hunter, and I will see you in Indianapolis. Lil Fuego on Spotify says, Hey, CVV, you've sat across from legends, icons,

and maniacs of this business. You've seen the best talkers, the toughest fighters. But today, in honor of Jeff Hardy, I want to know where you stand on war paint. So I'm putting you on the spot. If wrestling history carved a Mount Rushmore made only of face paint, who's etched in stone,

who makes the cut, and who just misses the mountain. Thank you for all of the work that you put in and for all of the content that you provide us. A Mount Rushmore of wrestlers who wear face paint. You know I love a good Mount Rushmore question. Well, the first few are going to be really easy. The last few are going to be tough.

Sting, obvious. You have to put Sting on there, number one spot, not negotiable. I mean, and if you think about it, Sting basically has two Hall of Fame careers with different kinds of face paint. Surfer Sting and Crow Sting. I mean, Sting,

you don't even have to say anything else. Sting, number one, easy. Ultimate Warrior. Like, there are still people to this day that paint their face like Ultimate Warrior. And it's just something about the face paint along with the intensity, along with that theme song, along with the run to the ring,

all of it together. Ultimate Warrior, absolute icon. Then it gets into some, like, I think those are like, they're easy ones. Then it's like, all right, who else do we add to this? I'm going to put on the road warriors because there's just absolute believability here.

The road warriors made face paint feel violent and dangerous instead of it just being like theatrical. Like hawk and animal look like comic book villains that came to life and like wandered into these real fights. Like absolutely sold fear. Road warriors. Then where do we go from here? Man, it's so tough here.

This is every Mount Rushmore. I do this every single time. It's so tough, man, because you can only put four on here. Here's what I'm going to go with. And I'm going to make a real strong case for why this is my fourth pick. Gold Dust.

Slash, Dusted Roads. When the Gold Dust character came out, it was completely different. different. And the face paint and the way that Gold Dust acted, it made you feel uncomfortable. And it was about psychology and character work and at first getting into his opponent's head. And ended up turning into other things. But in an era, especially then, when FacePaint usually screamed like you're a warrior, Gold Dust was using it for a completely other reason. And Dustin Rhodes made it work with Gold Dust. Dustin Rhodes makes it work now completely different.

face paint, but how can you think about iconic face paint and not think about the Hall of Fame career of Dustin Rhodes? And by the way, that's a Hall of Fame career in both WWE. And if AEW ever decides to have a Hall of Fame, it's a Hall of Fame career there as well. I'm going with Dustin Rhodes. The ones who would just miss the cut here for me, Jeff Hardy, tremendously influential, but the face paint is more of like an accessory than. his identity. Like, he's had many matches without it. Jeff Hardy is, I think, just as great of a worker with or without the face paint, but man, it looks cool. Also knowing the stories behind it, the fact that he does it all himself, painting it on with the Paska markers. I am such a fan of how

it's different every single time, and, like, he just lets his artistic license just, like, come through in the art. I think it's amazing. Pappashango, just, just missing the cut great muda, demon Finn Baller, like there's been a lot of great people to wear face paint, a lot of icons to wear face paint, but, man, I feel, I feel pretty good.

I feel pretty good about my, my top four there. Boogieman, too, Umaga. Man, so many legends. Like, seriously. So many legends. Email from Aaron Warren, and you spell it A-R-R-O-N, so you're not like getting the A-A-A-R-R-O-N jokes.

Hi, Chris, at the start of each episode, you ask listeners to leave a review as the bigger the show gets, the bigger the guests can get as well. Having already interviewed, Stone Cold, Kurt Engel, Seth Rollins, John Sina, The Undertaker, Kit Wilson, and more. My question is, how much bigger can the guests really get at this point? How can the show get any bigger? You're the man, Chris? Lots of love. Aaron, thank you for the very kind words. appreciate that and like reading off that list even a year or two ago would have blown my mind

completely. It still blows my mind. There are still quite a few big guests that haven't been on the show. So again, the bigger the show gets, the bigger the guests can get. We haven't had Sting on the show. Haven't had Randy Orton, Triple H, Trish Stratus, Stephanie McMahon, just to name a few. But also, think of how many celebrities or actors are wrestling fans, or maybe they've even had a match or like some sort of involvement in WWE. Snoop Dogg. WWE Hall of Famer. Rob Grancowski, WrestleMania moment.

John Bernthal. We saw him in the crowd at John Cena's last match. Danielle Fissel from Boy Meets World, Topanga, always talking about wrestling, always posting about wrestling. I've been trying to get her on the show forever. McCauley Culkin, lifelong wrestling fan. His brother, Kieran Culkin, Tom Brady, did a Cody Road's entrance at Fanatics Fest last year in New York City. This is what I'm talking about.

I think that let's make the show so big that they can't ignore it. And I think with your help, that's possible. So I don't ask for anything. I don't have a Patreon. I'm not asking you to PayPal me money. Nothing like that. All I'm asking for is, could you take a few seconds, to follow the show if you don't already

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For any creator that puts the time and the work and the effort into. these videos. Like you, you watch a video that might be 10 minutes. Maybe that video took 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 hours of planning and travel and writing and editing and producing all of the things that go into it for 10 minutes of entertainment or an interview that's an hour, like the Hardy Boys interview for, there was an hour. Sure, it was an hour, hour 10, whatever it was, but there was getting to the airport, there was waiting to board the plane to Albuquerque. there was getting to Albuquerque,

there was getting to the location where we ended up shooting this, there was setting up everything. And I'm not complaining, I'm just saying there's a lot that goes into this. I'm so insanely, insanely grateful to be able to do this. Like, how lucky am I

that I get to sit down and have conversations with some of the best to ever do it? Wild. All I'm asking for is, could you just hit a button? Could you follow the show? Could you subscribe to the show?

And if you have an extra few seconds, maybe during a commercial break, during the Royal Rumble. I'll have a few words as a review on Apple. Leave a, like, click the three little dot, dot, dots on Spotify, on the main part of the show, then click rate show, and then the stars will pop up. Like, it takes just a few seconds. I notice so trivial, and it's so silly to even have to mention it. But I'm just saying the bigger the show gets, the more noticed it gets,

the easier it is to get those yeses. and I think the the main part of being a podcaster, being a YouTuber, being a content creator, whatever you want to call it, is you're just trying to get to yes. Like every time that someone comes on the show on a Tuesday, every time someone comes on the show on a Thursday for an interview, we've had to have them say yes.

All we're trying to do is get to yes. Once that person says yes, whoever that person may be, all right, now the work can begin. Let's really dive into the, the research. Let's really figure out what this interview, this conversation should look like. So if you have a few seconds, it'd just be super helpful. Ash Draman on Instagram says, Hey, CVV, would you rather have Joe Hendry randomly appear when you use the bathroom, when I use the, like, just like, say his name and he appears, and I'm like, I turn around from

the urinal or like, there's a knock at the bathroom door if I'm at home, okay. Or get a mankind mandible claw every time you eat pizza. Well, I do like pizza. But like I said, pizza's like maybe twice-ish a month, maybe three. Yeah, maybe three. I didn't mention this earlier. I think Joe Henry's going to be in the Royal Rumble. That's going to be a fun moment as well.

I don't think I want anybody appearing randomly when I'm using the bathroom, even if, like, my back is turned to them at a stall or a urinal. Yeah, I think I'll go with the mandible claw and maybe it would make me eat less pizza. I thought, who wants that? And maybe, maybe I could have a conversation with Mick and be like, hey, man, I will sell this. I will make this look amazing. but just like a working mandible claw, please? And like maybe an unused sock.

Thank you. That'd be great. So I'm going to go with the mandible claw and I get to hang out with Mick Foley. Maybe even eat pizza with Mick Foley every single time. That'd be amazing. That's our final question on this. Ask CVV, number one, two, oh, you didn't know edition?

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