Insight with Chris Van Vliet - AskCVV #33 - WWE & TNA Crossover, Ethan Page's Surprise NXT Debut, MJF Returns, MITB Predictions

Episode Date: May 31, 2024

Welcome to #AskCVV 33! On this one Chris answers questions about the recent WWE and TNA talent crossover, Ethan Page leaving AEW and debuting in NXT, what Becky Lynch will do when her contract expires, how the quotes at the end of each episode are chosen, MJF's return at AEW Double Or Nothing, early Money In The Bank predictions and much more! If you have a question that you want answered on the next one, send it in using the hashtag #AskCVV! Sponsors: PURE PLANK: The future of core fitness! Use the code CVV to save 10% on Pure Plank which was designed by Adam Copeland & Christian: https://gopureplank.com/ PRIZEPICKS: Download the app today and use code INSIGHT for a first deposit match up to $100! BONCHARGE: Use the code CVV to save 15% off your infrared sauna blanket at https://boncharge.com/cvv BLUECHEW: Use the code INSIGHT to get your first month of BlueChew for FREE at http://bluechew.com ROCKET MONEY: Join Rocket Money today and experience financial freedom: https://rocketmoney.com/cvv BETTERHELP: Get 10% off your first month with the code INSIGHT at http://betterhelp.com/insight PLUNGE: Get $150 off your Plunge with the coupon code CVV150 at http://plunge.com For more information about Chris and INSIGHT go to: https://podcast.chrisvanvliet.com If you enjoyed this episode, could I ask you to please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcast/iTunes? 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Oh, greetings and salutations, my friends. Welcome back to another one here on Insight. I'm CVV, Chris Van Vle. Thank you so much for being with us. And thank you, as always, for helping to make Insight one of the top wrestling podcasts on the planet. I know you're already following the show because you're here with us on an AskCTVV episode. But if by chance, you thought you were following the show,

but it turns out, oh my gosh, I'm not actually following. Please take a second today to hit that follow button. And if I could ask for something, maybe this is a little bit strange. Maybe this is an odd request. But could you grab like your brother or sister, husband or wife, boyfriend or girlfriend, mom or dad's phone, and also make sure that they're following the show as well? Even if they don't listen to the show, that extra follow, that extra rating, that extra review really helps to continue to clod.

our way up the charts undertaker i've got my eye on you i think after doing that episode with teddy long i feel like soon we'll be going one on one with the undertaker perhaps as an interview perhaps just one-on-one like podcast battling it out number one and two boom going head to head we shall see but i appreciate you being with us i always love these episodes This is Ask CVV number 33, the Patrick Wa edition. Oh yeah, that's a deep cut for the Canadians out there, for the fellow NHL fans out there. But obviously, 33 was worn by a lot of legends in the NBA as well. This is also the Scotty Pippin edition, the Larry Bird edition, and yes, the Karim Abdul-Jabbar

edition. Ask CVV number 33. and I have to say I'm looking ahead to like when we're done. Obviously, Ask CVV number nine is a pretty easy one. You know, the greatest hockey player of all time is going to be Asked CVV number 99. But I'm like, I'm already lamenting what we're going to do for Ask CVV 100 and beyond. I know we've got a lot of episodes to go. 77 of them to be exact.

67 of them to be exact. You're geez with the math there. But I'm like, what are we going to do? do? These have been so fun. Every single number is the different edition of a different person who wore that jersey famously. What are we going to do? If you guys have any suggestions, please shoot me a message, but what are we going to do for Ask CVV number 100 and then 101 and beyond? I don't know. But if this is your first time joining us on an Ask CVV episode, I appreciate you for being here. I'm going to answer as many of these questions as I possibly can. Thank you to everyone who sent them in

using the hashtag Ask CVV on social media or by emailing them in CVV at chris fanfleet.com or we got a ton from the Spotify Q&A. So if you're listening on Spotify, that section where it says, what did you think of this episode? Leave a few words there. Leave a question for Ask CVV number 34 there. Tell me what Ask CVV number 34 should be. What addition should that be? On the last episode, we crushed the record. We had so many answers in there. I think. the previous record was like a hundred or sorry, 40 for the show. We got like 140, I think, on that last one.

So leave a comment on there. Just leave a few words. It'd be so cool to see that. And we will dive into these. And we're closing out our biggest month ever on the podcast. May was the most downloads, the most listeners that we've ever had on the show. So thank you for being here.

because otherwise there's no show. Like, seriously, like quite literally, there is no, well, there's a show. But it's really just me, like recording for fun then. But there's nothing without you guys. So thank you for being here. And thank you for always just continuing to spread the word about the show. It warms the cockles of my heart when I get a message or I get a comment from someone who's like, I just started listening to the show a month ago.

Or I just started listening to the show three weeks ago. It's like, okay. Yes. I mean, of course, I appreciate everybody who's been listening since the podcast started in 2019, but the fact that we're reaching new people, that's exciting. That's so exciting. So we're going to start out this one with the most popular topic of the week. This is certainly the one. I think we've never received more questions about one topic during an Ask CV than this one. So we had a version of this question sent in by, Kedron Gray, Christian 07 Luna, Alex Pendolfel, Pendolfi, Pendolfi, Dillon dot Ty 93, Jonathan Gatellis and Chris from Michigan. You guys were all on the same brainwave here, and I guess it's the thing that a lot of people are thinking about since we saw it on Tuesday in NXT. We saw the TNA knockout's champion.

Jordan Grace make her debut in TNA and she'll be facing Roxanne Perez for the NXT Women's Championship at Battleground on June 9th. What do you think of this TNA and WWE crossover and what other stars would you like to see? Huge fan of this. I loved when the Forbidden Door was even a thing. When AEW was doing this with TNA and AEW was doing it with New Japan and there was all these dream matches that we were thinking could possibly happen, now they're actually happening. here we've got this crossover and it hasn't been branded yet. This hasn't been branded as a forbidden door or as an actual official crossover, but it was Mickey James showing up at the Royal Rumble a few years ago.

And then we had Jordan Grace as the TNA knockout's champion showing up at the Royal Rumble. And then she showed up on Tuesday and a massive debut there. And the reaction that we saw from the crowd when her name was up on the screen there, it was cool. And even if you've never watched TNA, you're aware of who Jordan Grace is. And one look at her and you're aware of what she's capable of. So it was really cool to see that. And I think that there's a lot of potential here. I think there's a lot of people that could slide right into either NXT or Raw or Smackdown and it would make a lot of sense. A few people that I would love to see make that crossover happen. Number one on my list is Moose.

Moose is a beast. He is a specimen. And he does things in the ring that someone of his size probably shouldn't be doing. He just, he's so, he's so athleticism that he shows off in the ring is, it's crazy. Sometimes he moves around there like he's, you know, 510 and 195 pounds or something like that. And he's, I think, 6'5 and 270, a monster. So, Moose. Moose in TNA or Moose going from TNA to NXT or going to the main roster needs to happen. And, you know, if you listen to the interview that I did with Moose a few months back, there was a real chance there that he was going to sign with WWE. So, WWE is very aware of who he is and what he can do.

And he said he was so close to signing there, but he had a real loyalty to TNA and everything that he had built there with Scott DeMore, who at the time was running things. so WWE knows all about Moose. Moose has got to be on their radar. Josh Alexander, plug him right in and watch him just make some magic. Like a match with Josh Alexander and Chad Gable. Are you kidding me?

Josh Alexander and Rickachet. I mean, there's a lot of great matches there. Josh Alexander is so supremely talented and he put him in there with really anybody and it's going to be a great match. And I also think that if you say his name, he will appear. I believe in Joe Hendry. You got to put the mic down so I can.

There it is. Clap, clap. I feel like something really cool could happen in NXT where someone just says his name. And then he does appear. And anybody who's paid any sort of attention to the blow up, the massive surge of popularity that Joe Hendry has had over the last few months, they will immediately know what's happening. So I could see that one happening at some point in time.

A lot of people will ask me, are we going to see Joe Hendry a clash of the castle, which will make a lot of sense, right? He's Scottish. This is in Glasgow. I didn't say that right, did I? I'm very North American with Glasgow. It's Glasgow, right? there we go. Very North American way of like pronouncing every letter glass gal.

It's in Scotland. I just think that especially with the way that WWE has been doing their PLEs with five-ish matches, I don't, maybe he makes a backstage appearance or something, but I can't see that being a match with only five matches on the card. I could be wrong, and I would love to be wrong here. We'll also say that, and then, next few weeks, you will be believing in Joe Hendry because we're working out the details to get him to join me in the studio for an episode of Insight. And I can't wait. There's so much to dive into with him. So if you have a question for Joe Hendry, also shoot that over to me. Then we can present that to him when we do that episode. The plan now is to do it in about two and a half

weeks. But I never want to count my chickens before they're hatched. I never want to say, on this date, this thing is happening because I've had a lot of times where schedules change or flights get canceled or things don't happen. I learned my lesson the hard way a long time ago where I was like, this thing is going to happen. And then it doesn't. And I'm, I'm unfortunately falling into that territory right now with this live show that I hyped up quite a bit in Cleveland during SummerSlam week. I was like, oh man, I'll be telling you guys about it soon. And then one massive guest fell through. Then another even bigger guest fell through. And here we are now, just up against like schedules and venues and also trying to find a name that's

big enough to have you guys want to pay money to see that episode live and then possibly have a meet and greet after. A lot of moving pieces here. But I'm working diligently to try to make that one happen. But again, another lesson learned. Like, don't tease something unless you know it's going to happen. Like, I, I was so certain that one of these two WWE Hall of Famers, massive names, household names, it was going to work out and it didn't. So again, another lesson learned there. But if and when, if or when we get confirmation, of course, you'll be hearing it from me first. So the other question that I got from a lot of those same people is, oh, actually, by the way, with the TNA-W-E thing, a big question that I have is, is that door going to swing both ways? I mean, we'll see TNA talent in WWE, but will we see WWE talent in TNA?

That will be very interesting. I don't obviously know. I would love to see that. I think that there's some unfinished business for some people like Drew McIntyre, AKA J. Galloway, like there's something that could happen there. I just think that there's some other talent that put into TNA. Oh, my gosh.

Could you imagine AJ Styles going back to TNA? With the old TNA entrance music? Oh, man. Now we're just getting excited. But I'm very curious to see if that door will swing both ways. We'll see. Another question a lot of you sent in. A lot of those same names sent in, too,

is what did you think of Ethan Page's debut in NXT? I've been friends with Ethan Page, real name Julian, for a long time. Fun fact, we are both Canadian. We're both from Ontario. He's from Hamilton. I'm from Pickering. We also are both part Macedonian, so we've got a lot in common there. I have been saying for years that Ethan Page is a star.

I'm so glad that everybody else is starting to see it as well. He's been on the show a ton of time. and very interestingly, he's been on the show at very different phases of his career. He was on the show when he was a tag team champion in TNA with Josh Alexander. He was on the show when he first signed with AEW and all the excitement that came about with that. He was on the show just last December when things were actually, well, he was on the show before that when he was doing stuff with, I was doing stuff with the men of the year in AEW. And then he was on the show last December where just didn't seem like there was really a lot for him in AEW at that point in time.

So it sounds like we need to get him back on the show again because he's obviously at a very different phase of his life again. But if you look at a photo of Ethan Page now versus a photo of Ethan Page 18 months ago, two completely different people. people. 18 months ago, he's not, these are not my words. These are his words. He was rocking the dad bought. And over the last year or so, he's dialed it all in, dialed in his workouts, dialed in his nutrition, and the guy looks like a star. And it comes down to something that Matt Cardona was talking to me about. And Ethan and I talked a little bit about it on the last episode that we had as well is it's only so many things you can control when you're a wrestler. You know, you can control the way that you look.

Like how much time are you spending in the gym? How much time are you spending on your nutrition? You can control that. You can control what your gear looks like. What you're wearing when you walk out to the ring. You can control what you're wearing when you're in the ring. And you can control the attitude that you have. Outside of that, you don't have a lot of control.

And Ethan Page took that first one and went, well, I want to, even if I'm not getting a ton of TV time, I want to make it count. When you see me, I want you to know that you're looking at a star. And, I mean, that's pretty obvious. So huge congrats to him. I love that it's not like, you didn't just make an appearance there. Made an appearance.

Took out the NXT champion. Clearly is aligning himself to, at the very least, have a match with Trick Williams. At best, become the NXT champion. So, man, I'm excited. And he deserves every single bit. of this. So Julian, if you're listening, I love you, buddy, and congratulations. Pause for three seconds on Twitter. That is an interesting username. Does Becky Lynch leave the WWE when her contract is up? I think the straight up answer is no. Her contract is apparently

up in a few weeks. She lost the cage match to Liv Morgan on Monday. And If you believe the reports, she's going to take a long, extended, and in my opinion, very well-deserved break. And I think her and Seth Rollins taking a break together, especially since they have a young daughter, that makes a ton of sense. There's enough people in there that can carry this load while they're both gone. And if you look at what they've both done over the last few years, they've both been workhorses. In their each individual respective ways, they've been workhorses and they've been carrying a lot of this. So congrats to them. Take the time off. Heal your body up. Rest. Raise your daughters. Be there with her instead of bringing her with you

when you're jumping on planes and going from city to city to city and sleeping in hotels or it's sleeping on a bus. I believe they ride in a bus. And that's an interesting thing we should look at and maybe a future episode is do they sleep in hotels? or do they sleep in buses? Like we look at a list of names and are they a bus person or are they a hotel person? I've always found that interesting because there's a few people that are at the, you know, tippy top of WWE that aren't doing the fly into a town, rent a car and then drive that car to all of the various cities around and then get your own hotel because that's the way it works for the majority of the roster. There's a lot of them if you're making enough money and it makes

financial sense. A lot of them are getting the bus. I guess they're leasing the bus and they're hiring a driver. And then it's just drive from town to town and you've got a bit of a home base. So I know Cody does that. I know that Seth and Becky do that. And there's obviously a handful of other people that do that. I'm very curious who are bus people and who are not bus people. But yeah, Becky Lynch, I don't think is going anywhere else. Seth Rollins, same thing. I think that they are WWE lifers. could be wrong. But I think they're both W.WE Lifeers.

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And you talk about people who took time off. He took five months off. The last time that we saw him in AEW was in December. And he was healing up. I think it was a torn labrum. He was pretty hurt from working quite a bit and working hurt as well. So he took some time off to heal up and to, get himself into wrestling shape again.

And dude looked like a million bucks. And there were all these rumors and there were all this talk about, is he going to sign with WW? And I just thought it was pretty common knowledge that he had resigned with AWA a while back. I guess not everybody was privy to that information, but it is my understanding that he had re-signed with AED, like a year ago, like 2022.

And he had signed for, I don't know how much longer, but a considerable length of time for a considerable amount of money. So it was no surprise to me that he came back. I just thought it was a matter of when he comes back, not if he comes back.

And it was so crazy. It was so crazy to me in January, how there was all this talk of like, is he going to be in the Royal Rumble? It was like, no, there was a 0% chance he's going to be in the Royal Rumble. He's under contract with this other company.

So great to see him back. Great to see him slide himself back into this angle with Adam Cole and getting revenge and figuring out a way to put a nice little bow on top of that devil's storyline, which I don't know, I think we can all agree,

kind of went on a little bit too long. And the payoff there didn't seem to hit, didn't seem to land as well as I think that we expected it to. At the start, the devil storyline was really good. And then I feel like it just just kept going and kept going. And there wasn't much more added to it. And it just kind of got dragged out for a little bit too long.

But then we got the payoff of it and went, okay, great. And then that took MJF, MJF out for five months. And now he's back. I think it's just a matter of time before he's back in that title picture. MJF versus Swerve Strickland makes a lot of sense. But in the meantime, we're going to have a banger with Swerve Strickland versus Will Osprey. that's going to be so good at forbidden door. I feel like this takes us to a match where Will Osprey is in the main event at all in.

That just makes a lot of sense, right? It's in London. Will Osprey's from around that area. Put the dude in the main event. Have him just put on a 17-star match there, and that's just going to be incredible. But then I think somewhere after that, MJF's back in the title picture because MJF is the champion or MJF chasing for that championship. That to me makes a ton of sense.

Jeremy McCollum emailed this one in. The title is, first question for my first question for my first new Ask CVV. CVV, I've been listening through all your back episodes for over a year. I finally caught up to present day four days ago. That is incredible. and I'm sorry for some of those older episodes. They're not all great. I'm pumped for my first brand new Ask CVV.

So I have my first comment slash question. Your focus on gratitude really inspired me. I added that to my life. It's helped a lot through some of the tough circumstances. Thank you. You and your podcast are amazing. Was there a specific moment or epiphany that led to your focus on gratitude in your life?

Well, Jeremy, first of all, thank you. You went all the way back to episode one. And now you've listened all the way through to here, episode number 610. Man, that is incredible. And I am extremely grateful for you and for that. There's definitely some episodes in there that probably didn't need a re-listening to, but I appreciate you for listening to them anyway. So for me, I think that gratitude's always been a part of my life.

But when it really kind of became like the cornerstone of my life was probably during 2020. We were in such a strange place in the world as a whole. And I was in a strange place myself as well. I was in a bit of a career transition. I had recently left my full-time job in Miami where I was a television host slash entertainment reporter for the Fox station there, WSVN. And that was very much my identity for a long time. up until that point, my whole career, my whole identity was, I'm a television reporter. I interview

celebrities. I have the incredible opportunity to travel the world and go to all these cool movie premieres and movie junkets. And then I made a shift and put my focus on the podcast and on the YouTube channel. And that's been the best decision I've ever made professionally. I would never go back and change that. I wouldn't really change anything at all about my life. I'm a firm believer that everything that you do in your life has led you to exactly where you are right now. But shortly after I left that job, the world came to a screeching halt in March of 2020. And we all went from having the daily routines that we had and going about our lives to all of us now being forced to stay at home. And it was in that moment I started listening to

a lot more podcasts. I started reading a lot of books. And I just kept coming back to this central theme of this idea of especially when, again, we have no control of what's going on in the world. If you wanted to go to a concert, you couldn't. You wanted to go to a wrestling show? You couldn't. You wanted to go to the movies? You couldn't. And there was only a few things you could control. So I kept coming back to that, those three words that John Uncina told me during one of our interviews, Control the Control of all. And then there was this other quote from Tony Robbins

that just kept coming back to me and I just kept being reminded of it. And it was the idea that if you trade your expectations for appreciation, you'll never be disappointed. Because if you go into a situation and you're expecting it to go a certain way and it doesn't, well, automatically now you're disappointed

because the bar was set right here, Bar was set it like it's going to go according to these expectations. But if you just trade those expectations for the appreciation of, man, I'm just grateful to be here. I'm grateful for this opportunity. I'm grateful I'm even able to do this. Your whole mindset changes. So that's where it began for me was that quote from Tony Robbins of trading your expectations

for appreciation, especially at a time when everything in the world was so, you know, unsure. And I'd never done a virtual interview for the podcast before, for the YouTube channel. So that obviously had changed very quickly. And that was something I didn't really want to do. But here I was now. I'm just grateful for the opportunity to connect with this guest that I probably wouldn't have been able to connect with otherwise. I mean, everybody had plans. Everybody was busy. And then all of a sudden, in the middle of March of 2020, if someone was saying no to being, on your podcast on like March 19th, 2020, they were just a liar.

Because nobody had any plans. And if you did have plans, they were immediately canceled. You were literally, I knew exactly where you were in the middle to end of March of 2020. You were sitting on your couch doing nothing because we weren't able to do anything.

So I then turned myself to being super grateful for, oh, wow, I get to talk to this person that I probably wouldn't have connected with otherwise. And what could that lead to? Oh my gosh. Well, I'm grateful for that opportunity. And then the whole reason I started asking this question at the end of every podcast was there's a podcast I listened to pretty frequently called The School of Greatness with Lewis Howes. And Jeremy, you will know from listening to all my episodes. Lewis was a fantastic guest on the podcast about a year and a half ago. And I would highly encourage you, to listen to the School of Greatness.

And if you don't know where to start, because he's had, I don't know, 1,500 episodes or whatever it is, he did an episode with the late, great Kobe Bryant. And there's so many great nuggets in there. So I would say start with that episode with Lewis Howes and Kobe Bryant. But he asks what I would say

is a signature question at the end of every episode. He asks his guests this one question, which it's a fascinating question. and every guest has a completely different answer to it. But he says like, it's called the three truths. And he sets his question up by saying, like, imagine we're living at a time where this is your last day on earth. And for whatever reason, everything you've ever written down, everything you've ever recorded, all of your videos, all of your content is taken away. And all you have is a piece of paper and a pen. And you can just write down three things that you know to be true. And these will be the

only things that anybody that ever hears about you or knows about you will ever learn about you. It's just these are your three truths. The three things in life that you know to be true. I thought, man, that's such a great question. And there's even a lot of times when I listen to his podcast and I'm not that interested in the guest, but I fast forward through to the end just to hear someone's answer for the three truths because I think it tells a lot about a person. What are there three truths about life?

I think for me, one of my truths is like gratitude above everything. That's a truth for me. Then he asks another question. His show, again, is called The School of Greatness. He asks his guests, what's your definition of greatness? Which, again, it's just a fantastic question. I've always loved that idea of start to almost finish. You know, the first 95% of his episodes will be unique and interesting and different.

But the fact that at the end of every episode, he always has those two questions they can come back to. I love that. And since gratitude was such a big part of my life, I started incorporating that question into my podcast as a signature question, if you will. And Jeremy, since you've listened to all of my episodes, maybe you could tell me which episode number it was where I started asking that as the final question.

And the reason I do it is because, you know, look, not every day is going to go according to plan. And there's a lot of times where, you know, your day sucks, or you have moments in that day that suck. But I want to be able to show people that no matter who you are, and no matter what you're going through, and no matter what you have been through,

there's always something to be grateful for. So if I can ask someone like John Sina or Adam Copeland or The Undertaker, what are three things you're grateful for? And their answer happens to be something that you as well have in your own life. Oh, man, I'm grateful for my family. or I'm grateful for a roof over my head. Or I'm grateful for whatever it happens to be. If someone who's that successful can be grateful for the same things that you have in your own life,

man, what a shift that creates. So that's been one of my favorite things over the last few years is hearing that answer from people. And a lot of times we get similar answers. A lot of times someone will throw a complete curveball and you go, man, I never even thought about it like that. And that's one of the coolest things about podcasting just in general. This one's from Daring Kylie 7 on Instagram. Mr. CVV, my question for Ask CVV33, the Kareem slash bird edition.

Do you think we'll see with WrestleMania 41 in Vegas, do you think we'll see the raw after mania in the sphere? I have been screaming this from the mountaintops the last few months. and I think for me the first indication that this was going to happen was when UFC booked UFC 306 in the sphere. This is happening in a few months. So we're going to get a really good idea of what a sporting event inside the sphere could look like. And I think for some reason, there's been a lot of people that think the sphere is just a concert venue or it's just like a glorified like IMAX theater. And I think when UFC 306 goes in there, they are going to, number one, revolutionize what it means to have an event inside the sphere.

But number two, they're going to show every type of sporting event what's possible here. And I don't think, you know, you can't play baseball inside the sphere or you can't play hockey inside the sphere, for example. But maybe you could have a basketball game in there. That seems possible. If you can put an octagon in there, certainly put a wrestling ring in there. And I think there's this other misconception that the sphere is small for some reason. So I looked it up. The seating capacity in there is 18,600, which is on par with really any major arena in the United States.

Like anywhere they're going for Raw or they're going for SmackDown, there's probably 16 to 20,000 seats in there. So this is completely on par with the size of venue that they'd want to be running. and since UFC and WWE are owned by the same company now, TKO is the company that owns them and runs them, I feel like UFC 306 is a dry run for what could be possible for WWE. And if you don't know what I'm talking about here with the sphere, go look up a video on TikTok or Instagram or YouTube. And then you will start to think, like you will start to see the possibilities here. Yeah, it's not just a big screen. It's so much more than that.

And they have the ability to be incredibly interactive in there. There's a lot of potential here. So let's see how UFC 306 shakes out. In fact, I'll look up the date here. UFC 306 is happening on September 14th. So on September 14th, we're going to get a pretty good look and how this is going to go. And my goodness, it could. be really good. So I'm, I'm going to put my money on UFC 306 kind of set in the table for

showing the WWE and showing TKO and as a whole what's possible here. And then, yeah, I think it's WrestleMania 41 at a Legion stadium. And then I think it's the raw after mania at the sphere. And I also saw people that were like, the Hall of Fame should be there. Yeah, I guess. I just can't see 18,600 people going to that venue just for the Hall of Fame. Like, yeah, maybe. Like, yeah, there were definitely times when the Hall of Fame used to sell out arenas. They haven't been doing that over the last few years. Maybe it's time to go back to that.

But if you're going to do a first, and you're only going to have your very first UFC event in the sphere once. And if you're going to do this the first time, you're going to do it right. So I think it's a raw after mania. We'll see. Victor Bacon left this one on Spotify. Summer Girls is legitimately my favorite song. Gun to my head, I could nail every word. So on the last ask CVV,

someone asked, what are the three most embarrassing songs on your gym playlist? And I said, Summer Girls by LFO, number one on that list. And then I listed two other, rather embarrassing songs.

I might have a bit of a thing for pop music. Yeah. I just, I don't know, it gets me in a good mood. I listen to everything. I listen to pop and punk and rap and a lot of country and listen to everything. But I don't know. There's something about pop music that I just love.

I'm sorry. Actually, I'm not sorry. I'm not sorry about that at all. But I think my favorite line about LFO Summer Girls and may God rest the souls of two of the members, I mean, they died far too young, which is just crazy to think about. Devin and Rich both passed away, I think, in their 30s. It's crazy. If you don't know what I'm talking about, maybe just skip ahead the next 45 seconds.

And I'll see you in a little bit. The whole song is absolutely ridiculous. I feel like the song Summer Girls is like they did a Madlibs and they just filled in every like third word with the silliest word that you could find. Like I feel like someone said, hey, do you think you can make a song with these 10 stupid words in it? And I think that Rich, nice, the lead singer of LFO is like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. bet here we go there's this one line and this is so fitting because it's asked cvvc number 33 there's this one line or he says it's so stupid you're the best girl that i ever did see the great larry bird jersey 33 when you take a sip you buzz like a hornet billy shakespeare wrote a whole

bunch of sonnets it's so it's so stupid and i picture i mean in the music video The Great Larry Bird jersey, 33, and he throws up the three, three, three, like he throws it up three fingers. Billy Shakespeare? So silly. I also could nail every single word to that song. So if I ever see you out, I would happily do that for you. Hip-hop, Mom, relate, spick, and span. Met you when someone in it all began.

You're the best girl that I ever did see. And then that takes us to the Great Larry Bird Jersey 33. Oh, McCulley Culkin wasn't home alone. that's another great line from that song. Don't get me started here. It's too good. Chef Amazing at that 80 show on Twitter. Says,

on the next Ask CVV33, the Patrick Ewing edition. What did you think about that Dom and Live Kiss? Did you see the whole thing? Or did you see it when the internet went viral? Also, let me be your pizza guide when you're living in New Jersey. Well, the living in New Jersey part is still not completely confirmed here.

But I still think that in the matter, the next two or three years. I think we will not be living in California anymore. But it's a matter of there, you know, where. New Jersey obviously makes a lot of sense. That's where my wife's family's from. And my parents are about a seven-hour drive away to go northwest to Toronto from where we would be. So I will take you up on the pizza guide if and when we moved to New Jersey.

I think we all saw the Dom and Live thing happening at some point in time. I'm here. But they were teasing this quite a bit, right? They were teasing this over the last few weeks and then boom, they just hit us with it at the end of Raw. I think the big question is, where does it go from here? Does this turn Dom face somehow? Or does this make live like a mega heel? That'll be very interesting because Dom didn't exactly have like a heel-like reaction to that. He's kind of had a reaction of like, what just happened? happened. And did I like that? I think I like that. But am I supposed to like that? Hmm, I don't know. What's mommy going to think about this? And this sets up the whole thing here. Liv Morgan being the

women's world champion, the revenge here with Ria Ripley, the woman that she took out, the woman that she injured when she comes back. So, you know, there's a whole lot of things happening here. and maybe we have a another custody of Dominic ladder match here. Oh, that would be too good. That would be too good. And what a, what a callback, right? Oh, could you imagine

a custody of Dominic ladder match between Liv Morgan and Ria Ripley? This stuff writes itself. Too good. C.A. underscore Garcia 13 on Instagram says, hey CVV how do you go about choosing the quote of the day i've always been really drawn to quotes and i'm looking fascinated by just like the english language as a whole and just language as a whole and how like you can put just a few words together and if you put them in the right order

that could have just such a profound meaning so the quote for me begins selfishly with what's a quote that could inspire me? What's a quote that could help to make me a slightly better person today? And then maybe hopefully a slightly better person tomorrow and then the day after that, slightly better and, you know, continue on that path. So it's usually for me, like what's a quote that rings true for me? And my hope through sharing it is that there's somebody listening, even if it's just one person that's listening who that quote means something to them. or maybe that quote inspires them to start something that they were thinking about starting or to look at something in a completely different way that maybe they hadn't looked at it in that way before.

We've done 610 episodes of the podcast. We've been doing quotes now for, I don't even know, 300 of them maybe. Then there's been some that have been repeated and that's been intentional. I've repeated some of those quotes because that quote meant a lot to me 12 months ago. And it really speaks to me today as well. And if it's speaking to me a ton today, could it speak to you as well? That's really what it is. And I've got a ton of favorite quotes.

I've got a list on the note section of my iPhone that I go back to. But really, it's just like what's something that could motivate me selfishly? And then in turn, hopefully motivate someone as well. So we got a really good one at the end of this episode. I like to think they're all really good ones. Like I know I repeated the one last week twice. Don't yuck someone else's yums. But my goodness, that's what I'm going to carry with me for the rest of my life.

Just that idea of like, why does it matter? Why does it matter if someone else likes something that maybe you're not into or maybe you don't understand? Why does that matter? Like if it's not hurting anybody else, who cares? And that's the thing I just don't understand. in wrestling fandom, but just like as a whole. So I will be saying that one for a while.

Don't yuck other people's yums. But wait until the end of this one for the quote that we have for this episode. It's a good one. Ria Morar on Instagram says, Jeff Hardy, where to for him now, AEW, or try to retire him in WWE if they'll take him. I don't see any other situation other than the Hardy Boys ending their career in WWE. I don't know if it's just one match. I don't know if it's a series of matches. I don't know if

it's just a one-off thing, but Matt and Jeff Hardy can still perform in the ring, and they are, depending on who you're talking to, they are either the greatest tag team or they are one of the greatest tag teams of all time. They're absolutely 1,000% WWE Hall of Famers. So it would make sense, I think, for them to do something in WWE. I'd be very curious to see what that is. And I hope that we are able to see that. I don't know what Matt Hardy's situation is with TNA. I don't know if he's on an event-to-event situation with them.

I don't know if he's signed to a contract where he's with them for a year or multiple years. But if there's some sort of a talent exchange happening right now with TNA and WWE, and as I understand that talent exchange, I understand it's WWE as, paying to use the talent from TNA. If that exists, yeah, I definitely see that happening in WWE. And Matt told me in the episode that we recorded just a few months ago that he knows he doesn't have a lot of time left, but he wants to be able to use the position that they have as one of the great tag teams and with their 30 plus years of experience, they want to be able to use that to help put over other talent. So I think that them doing it in

WWE makes a lot of sense. I think that there was, there's just some stronger booking that I think is possible for the Hardy Boys in WWE. Because there just wasn't a lot that was happening there and towards the end of their run in AEW. And I just think that there's some real possibilities there in WWE to really end their career right. So we'll see. Brett Magulik? Brett Magulik, emailed this one in. Hello, Chris. My name is Brett, and I am relatively new listener.

This is what I was talking about. This gets me so excited. I love finding out that new people are fine in the show and that you guys are sharing it with people. I'm a relatively new listener, but I fell in love very quickly, and now I tune into every episode while I'm working. So thank you for getting me through my shifts at work, washing dishes. I will be graduating high school in a few days and studying a sports broad

podcasting in college. So I've been listening to your episodes very closely, trying to pick up a few things that you do very, very well. I've noticed that in your interviews, your guests talk way more than you do and are engaged the entire time. My burning question is, what is your question writing process look like? And how do you keep your guests so engaged? Thank you so much. Best wishes, Brett. Well, Brett, thank you for the very kind words and appreciate you being a new listener to the show. I've always approached interviewing with the 80-20 rule. And I like to think that if I'm talking, if my guest is talking about 80% of the time and I'm talking about 20% of the time, that's a pretty good balance there. I am hyper aware that nobody is tuning in to the show to hear me talk. If it's an episode with Matt Hardy or Adam Copeland or John Sina or whomever, I'm aware that you are there because of the guest. And that's why the guest's name is the very,

first thing at the start of every episode. It's Teddy Long on. It's Matt Hardy on. It's Stone Cold Steve Austin on or some sort of version of that. So I'm aware that you guys are there to hear them. That's why I'm not often interjecting with my own story that has to do with whatever they're talking about. I mean, sometimes I will if it happens to follow the flow of the conversation. But I'm also there to learn something myself. Like I'm not just asking these questions to just record an episode and move on to the next one. I'm asking these questions because I'm genuinely interested in knowing the answer to it. And I think that if you have a podcast and you're asking questions just for the sake of asking

questions, you might want to reconsider whether you should have a podcast or not. Like if you're not in this, because you're genuinely interested in your guest and genuinely interested in knowing the response to the question that you've formulated in together and ask them, then what are you doing? So that's where it begins for me, a genuine interest in who that person is and what makes them tick. And also a huge curiosity in trying to figure out like, how did you get to where you're at? You're one of the greatest in the world at whatever, whether it's often had athletes on the show or actors, obviously a lot of wrestlers, I'm genuinely interested to know, like, what was your path that got you there?

And in breaking down that story, in reverse engineering from where you are back to where you began, what can I learn about my own story there? So the question writing process begins with curiosity. And it also begins with me, like, just kind of getting a framework for their career. So, okay, they started their career in and around this city, and then they got signed to, I don't know, TNA, and then they got noticed by WWE and whatever the case happens to be. I like to get a general framework for that.

I like to get a general framework for like these are the big moments that kind of shifted their career are winning this championship. Okay, that did this. This big moment where they, I don't know, did this thing off a ladder or got thrown off a cage. Okay, that changed their life here. Oh, this viral moment where, I don't know,

Kurt Engel is giving a thousand yards stare at the camera. Okay, that's a moment that changes your life. I like to think in those moments of like, oh, this is a milestone. This is a benchmark. Okay. What can we talk about between this benchmark and then the next benchmark? I also have an amazing guy on the team. Alex Hunt, shout out to you.

Alex, you're awesome. I appreciate you so much. Alex transcribes the interviews for my website, chrisfamily.com. He also does some fantastic research for all of these interviews. So I'm a big believer in two. heads is better than one. So yeah, I can do a bunch of research and do a bunch of research for all of the episodes that I have ever done. But Alex throwing his perspective in has helped a ton since he came on board because I might see things one way and I might think that, oh yeah, these are the biggest career

moments for this person. And he'll throw me a curveball and go, oh yeah, well, have you thought about this moment? Or like, I just did an interview with Billy Gunn, which you'll be seeing in the next few weeks. And I completely forgot that Billy Gunn was on an episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch. And then I remembered him. Like, oh, yeah, I remember watching that episode. Billy Gunn wrestled Sabrina the Teenage Witch. What an amazing story that would be for him to tell. And a huge thank you to Alex for thinking about that and reminding me about that. So that's part of it. And then your other question here of how do you keep your guests engage? I just try to think about these as conversations as much as I can. And sometimes,

Sometimes that is easier said than done. But I just try to think about it like if I bumped into this person at the store or if we were at a party together, I would just be thinking about like, let's just chat. Let's just enjoy this conversation. Let's just be present in this moment instead of thinking about like, okay, I asked this question. Now the next question that I had prepared was this. And that question, I try my best not to think about it like that. And I think that, stop me if you've heard this. But it's the quote from Larry King that I love so much.

I never learned anything while I was talking. And if you can approach an interview, a conversation, a slice of life with a genuine curiosity that you can ask the question and shut your mouth and actually listen, not just hear the answer that the other person is getting. but actually listen to what they're saying, that's when you'll get the most. And that's what the greatest, that's what the greatest interviews do.

Like, think about how good Howard Stern is and like asking a simple question that turns into like, an incredible story, one or two questions later. Or Oprah, like this immense curiosity that she has, that, you know, whether you like Oprah or not, you can't deny she's a great interviewer. So I think that that's what the greats do.

and I am by no means putting myself in that category at all. But there is a lot that you can learn from people like Howard Stern or Oprah or Joe Rogan. Just the idea of like asking a question and actually listening to the response. So thank you for the great question, Brett. Dylan Cook left this one on Spotify. Ask CVV. Do you think Braun Breaker? is in line for a full name change soon.

Sharing it with Stroman feels a little off, and I feel giving him a Steiner last name would help to give him more recognition. Well, I don't think he's getting a full name change ever. I mean, his real name is Bronson, so calling him Braun makes sense. I don't think that one's changing at all. I get that when you say Bronn Strowman

and you say Bronn Breaker, they both sound the same, even though they are spelled differently. I understand that. I think he, He should be a Steiner, though. And I still don't understand why WWE does this. Brian Pilman, Jr. is Lexus King.

The Rock's daughter, Simone Johnson, is Ava Rain, or just Ava recently. They did this to Eddie Guerrero's daughter, Shaw Guerrero. She was Raquel Diaz. And she told me that the reasoning that they gave her was, ooh, the Guerrero name, wow, those are some really big shoes to fill. And if we call you Shaw Guerrero or Raquel Guerrero, Guerrero or whatever, if your last name is Guerrero, all anybody's ever going to do is compare you to the late Great Eddie Guerrero. And I understand that. But when that's your actual last name,

why not? Like there's a legacy there. And by giving yourself just some random last name like Lexus King or Ava Rain or Raquel Diaz or Braun Breaker, it like severes the legacy there. And like, yeah, fans know it, but it's a weird disconnect there. We all know he's Rick Steiner's son and his uncle is Scott Steiner. We're all aware of that. And there's been references to like Steiner Math. We all get that. Why not just like why not just do the thing you're already implying here? I don't just give him his actual last name or his wrestling last name. I guess it's just half of his real last name. I think it's a matter of time. It would make so much. sense and with triple-H running things, that feels like a triple-H decision.

Taking away your legacy last name, that feels like a Vince McMahon decision. So making him Braun Steiner at some point in time here feels like a triple-H decision that I hope happens at some point in time. Until then, he'll continue to wrestle with the intensity of a Steiner and he'll continue to do all these incredible athletic things that a Steiner would do. And we will just know that he's a Steiner, even though that's not his official name. But yeah, let's make that thing happen. Shall we? I don't know why I'm asking you guys like we have any say on this. We don't. JDC. Taurus 78 on Spotify. I love all these Spotify questions. Please keep them coming.

Quick sidebar here. When I first started the podcast in 2019, I think the breakdown, was, and these are rough numbers, but I think it was something like 70% of people listen on Apple podcasts. And like then the rest was spread out. Like it was 8% Spotify or 10% Spotify and then like 10% Google, which doesn't even exist anymore. Google podcast is like dead. That crazy. They just, they sunsetted it. That's a very tech term for like, we close shop. We're not doing that anymore. We sunsetted it. But it was like, I think 70-ish percent, if not more, listening. on Apple Podcasts. Now it's like, I think it's 40% on Spotify, 40-ish percent on Apple Podcasts. Like it is, Spotify has taken over so much market share from Apple Podcasts. And it's,

it's astonishing to see. So all of that is, it doesn't matter to me where you listen, but it's just interesting. I used to listen on Apple Podcasts all the time. Now I listen to almost all my podcasts on Spotify. And I imagine there's a lot of people, especially people that are leaving these questions on Spotify with like this one from JDC Torres 78, probably a lot of you guys have done that same thing. So this question is amazing as always. And thank you for the incredible guest list. What is your least favorite wrestling topic? That's easy. Ratings. Ratings are my least favorite wrestling topic because most of the people who are talking about them don't fully understand how television ratings work. And I'm not an expert on this, but I have worked in

television for 19 years, and I have seen daily ratings at the TV station all the time. Quarterly ratings, demographics, I've seen them all. And they meant a lot when I first started in television 19 years ago. But I think the big misunderstanding is when people see 870,000 people watch Dynamite or 2 million people watch raw or whatever the number is, people seem to think that those are hard and fast numbers, that like exactly 870.7. 70,000 people to the number, to the person, watch the show. And it's just not true. That's not how ratings work.

Like, do a little bit of research. Find out how Nielsen ratings work. But I'm just so tired of this idea of people looking at ratings and going, that's how many people watch the show. Well, if I watched 14 YouTube videos from Raw last Monday, And I got a really good grasp of what all the matches were, who won them all, what the promos sounded like, what any of sort of big returns might have been, what any big moments were. Did I not then like pretty much watch the whole episode? Like, do I need to watch it on USA, whether that's live or on DVR? Do I need to watch it as it's happening or again on DVR to have watched that episode of Raw? And we're living in such a different time right now. And we're in a weird in between moment in broad. where traditional broadcasting still exists, but we don't really consume broadcasting in a traditional way anymore. And new media, if you will, is here, but it's still so new and so fresh.

We can't really grasp how this works. So we're in a strange in-between area right now. And this is going to change and shift towards probably the rest of this decade and into the the 2030s, but we need to stop looking at ratings as these hard and fast numbers, unless by chance you are a media buyer and you are buying the ad space that happens to exist on USA or Fox or TNT or TBS or wherever all of these various shows air. If you're a media buyer, if you are buying ad time, sure, go look at the ratings because those are a very important metric when you're buying ad time. but if you're a fan and you're trying to look at these numbers,

like that's how many people watch the show. It's just not accurate and it's not how it works. I think we will continue to evolve with understanding metrics and numbers and ratings and figuring out all of this. But if 2 million people watched raw, but, you know, like the Rock's return on SmackDown, 170 million people watch that across all platforms,

do we still just go, yeah, but only 2 million people saw it. What? That just even makes sense. And I know there's some overlap. Like, yeah, you might have watched that clip on TikTok and you might have also watched it on YouTube. And I know that's counting as two views when it's really only one person, but it's just a weird thing that, like, the people that spew the ratings numbers don't look at anything else. Like, that would like be like me saying to you, like, well, your business must not be very popular because you don't get a lot of faxes anymore. What? Like that is, that's very similar to the argument around ratings. Like, how many faxes does your business get? Well, not a lot because we get a lot more emails now.

And maybe we don't get as many phone calls, but again, we get a lot of emails. And looking at ratings is just a very archaic way of approaching that. So that's something that is my least favorite topic for sure. And I know I've just talked about it a whole bunch here. I hope to not talk about it again anytime soon, but I just wish there was a better understanding. Like, educate yourself just a little bit to understand that, like, Nielsen ratings represent something like 10,000 people, like one Nielsen rating box represents 10,000 people. What? That's crazy.

It's so archaic. And there's going to be a better way eventually at some point in time. But we need to stop discounting, especially with AW and WW and W. and TNA, putting clips online, like within minutes of them airing on TV. We need to stop discounting people seeing these moments happening on social media or happening on YouTube because not everybody's going to sit there in front of their TV at 8 o'clock Eastern time on Monday night to watch three hours of raw. So if the next day, they happen to run across 11 clips of what happened the night before, how does that not count? That's the thing I,

I just don't get. People don't watch TV like they used to. People used to like sit there on a Thursday night in the 90s and be like, oh, got to tune in for Friends, then Seinfeld. I think it was that, right? It was Friends Then Seinfeld. Yes, I believe it was. That's the way it used to go. Because if you missed it, the only other way to watch it was setting your VCR and then watching a VHS tape. That's why ratings used to matter so much. It was literally appointment viewing. You had an appointment with the TV. I got to watch friends. I don't know I keep coming back to Friends in Seinfeld,

but they were two massive shows on a Thursday night on NBC. But that's the way it used to work. It doesn't work like that anymore. It just doesn't. Lane Dean sent this one on Spotify as well. Do you think Bray Wyatt is a future Hall of Famer and what's your favorite match of his? Hall of Famer, for sure,

it wouldn't surprise me at all if he's in the class of 2025. Maybe they didn't induct him because it was just too soon and there's still, I mean, still, it's tough. It's tough to think about Bray and it's tough to talk about Bray. He was just taken from us so soon, so young. So yes, Hall of Famer for sure within the next few years, absolutely. Favorite match. There's a few that come to mind and coincidentally, they are all from the same year. His match with Daniel Bryan at the Royal Rumble in 2014 is just an all-time. great match. That might be Bray White's best match. As far as another singles match, his match against John Cena that year, payback 2014, really, really good. As the Wyatt family, I think the Wyatt family versus the Shield at Elimination Chamber in 2014 is such a good match. That's one that if you haven't seen it in a while or you haven't seen it at all, go watch that. see the magic that is Bray Wyatt.

Matthew, another one from Spotify. Oh, my goodness. It's just so great. Matthew says, I would like to attend a future WrestleMania. How do you suggest I prepare? When should I buy everything? How much should I save

in order to have the absolute best experience? Huge fan. I mean, I feel like you could have an endless budget for WrestleMania depending on how much you want to spend, but how should you prepare? I think that if you are sold, if you are absolutely 100% committed to going to WrestleMania

in Las Vegas next year, buy tickets the second they go on sale. And if you are only budgeting to go for one night instead of two, there's two approaches here. Night one will probably be a little bit cheaper if you end up buying them on the secondary market.

Night two will probably be a little bit more exciting. So I would say if you're only going to go to one night, go to Night 2, you'll end up maybe, if you're buying tickets on the secondary market, you might end up paying a little bit more. Or you might get slightly worse seats if you're buying them at face value, but you will likely get a better show, a better card. Not always. That's not a hard and fast rule. But I would say that the main event of Night 2 has traditionally speaking been the bigger one. you should try to get your hotel or Airbnb as soon as you can as well.

And there's obviously a lot of hotels in Las Vegas. That's up to you. Do you want to stay somewhere like the wind, like a really expensive hotel? Or are you okay staying somewhere like the Luxor or Excalibur or if you really want to save some money, but roll the dice on having bedbugs in your room, you could go stay at Circus circus. You know, there's possibilities there. But I would say plan for at least four or five nights there if you really want to do it right because there's so much that's going on around there. You've got SmackDown. You've obviously got two nights of mania. You've got raw after mania.

You've got NXT. There's a lot going on. There's endless amounts of indie shows that are happening. If you want to meet some of your favorite legends, there's wrestle con. I've been at the last bunch of Russell Conns if you want to come stop by and say hi to me. There is so much happening. But I would say buy your WrestleMania tickets early, book a hotel pretty early, and then find one or two or three or maybe more other events that kind of surround that, whether it's a great indie show that's happening in and around that area, whether it's a day or two of Russell Con, maybe it's the Hall of Fame. But there's so much happening that the best advice is really just enjoy yourself. You're only going to ever have one first WrestleMania. And I think I don't care what the card is.

Las Vegas is going to be the perfect place for a WrestleMania. And I'm going to throw out another random prediction here. I bet there's another WrestleMania in Las Vegas within the next 10 years. kind of the way they did WrestleMania 30 and 34 in New Orleans. New Orleans just is set up really well for WrestleMania. Everything is like within walking distance. You've got Bourbon Street there. Everything's just close. You don't need to rent a car.

You don't really need to take Uber's. You will need to take Uber's in Vegas, but everything will be within like the two, three mile radius of the strip. So I think that Vegas is going to pop off and be such a huge success that I think there's going to be another mania at some other point in that also begins with a four. So, WrestleMania 41, and then another WrestleMania 40-something. And that's not to say it shouldn't be in London or maybe Minneapolis does end up getting one, or maybe Indianapolis gets one. There's been talk about that. I'm not saying that's not going

to happen. I'm just saying that it's going to go, I think that Vegas is going to be the perfect place for WrestleMania in the same way that it was the perfect place for the Super Bowl recently, that they're going to do another one. So have fun at the end of the day. That's really, that's the biggest thing. Because it will be. It will be the best time as a wrestling fan. Future is Fontaine.

This one is from Instagram. Who are your early predictions to win the men's and women's money in the bank? It's early. But I've been saying this one for a little while here. For the women's money in the bank, I could really see Chelsea Green doing a lot with that. And I also think,

that Tiffany Stratton, and she even told me during her interview, like, how cool would it be to have a pink Money in the Bank briefcase and bedazzle it and have all these rhinestones on it? So my pick for women's money in the bank is one of them. For the men's money in the bank, it's interesting. It could go a lot of different ways here. L.A. Knight was so close last year. And the crowd was behind him. And that was such an amazing moment. I could see L.A. Knight getting it. I could also see Gunther getting it. I could also see Gunther getting it. So, but he's the, he's king of the ring. So that's not going to happen. So Scrather's not going to get it. It would make a lot of sense if he wasn't king of the ring, but I don't think that's going to happen. So my picks are either Elling Knight or this might be a dark

pick here. Dominic Mysterio. They could do a lot with Dominic Mysterio being Mr. Money in the bank. Those are my two picks right now. It's early. We've still got, what, six weeks to money in the banks. So a lot of things could change between now and then. But as of the last day of May, those are my predictions. All right. Another one from Instagram, Alan, Alan, Dem. Oh, my gosh. It's all together as one word. I don't know if I'm saying the right thing here. What is your favorite kids show with Logan? We got a lot of Miss Rachel on in the household. And if you have small kids, you know exactly who Miss Rachel is. So we know all of her songs now. And We know all of her cadences when she speaks.

It's so funny. Can you say mama? Mama. Can you say mama's name? Lot of Miss Rachel on. And my wife's name is Rachel. So it's, I don't know, seems kind of fitting. Bilko 86 wrote this one in on Instagram.

What's your opinion on Christians run in 2005 before he left WWE? What has his legacy been since? So I haven't announced this yet. But Christian is coming on the show on Tuesday. So the very next episode is Christian. And I asked him a really similar question of this because he left for TNA in 2005. And people seemed to forget that he was the first real big signing. He was the first real big star to jump from WWE to TNA before Kurt Angle did it.

Kurt Angle did it in 2006. Christian did it in 2005 and it completely changed his career. And it changed everyone's perspective of him. He went from being a tag team guy to, I don't know, just kind of getting lost in the single scene. And he said that the moment he knew he needed to leave WWE is when they were just putting him in these matches that didn't make a lot of sense. He said he had a match with Batista, where Batista's getting booed out of the building and the crowd's chanting, we want Christian.

And it was a pre-tape match. And when it aired, you didn't hear any of that. And it made it sound like Christian was the heel and getting booed. and made sound like Batista was getting cheered. And the reality was Christian was a heel at that time that was just getting over. And the crowd wanted to see more of him. And WWE just wasn't making it happen. And Christian said he got to a point where he's like, I'm paraphrasing here,

but he was banging his head against the wall. And he knew that nothing was going to change. And he knew that he needed to make a change in order for change to actually happen. And that's when he went to TNA and everything changed for him. And his legacy, I think so his legacy pre-2005 is very much as a tag team wrestler, Edging Christian, again, one of the greatest tag teams of all time. They completely changed what it meant to have a ladder match, not just a tag team ladder match, but like a ladder match.

They did things with the Hardee's and the Dudleys in matches that we didn't even know what was possible. So his legacy pre-2005 is tag team. wrestler and everything that they did there. Post 2005, his legacy has been about like total commitment to what he does. They don't call him Captain Charisma for nothing. And this gimmick that he has right now in AEW is the best work of his career. If you're not watching a lot of AEW right now and you haven't seen these clips, go spend a few minutes on YouTube and check out just the promos are on another level.

He's saying things that I didn't even know you could. He just pushes the envelope. He's talking about Jungle Boy's dead father, who is the legendary actor Luke Perry. Like, what? How could you get away with that? How are you saying that? Crazy.

A lot of things there that have been pushing the envelope. And then he pushes a little bit more. And then when you think he's pushed it too far, pushes it even more from there. So I think his legacy, I mean, he's a Hall of Famer for sure. I don't know if the stuff he's doing with AEW has,

it doesn't have any sort of effect on that at all. He's a Hall of Famer. It's in fact, in fact, when he debuted in AEW, Paul White, aka the Big Show, even teased him as such. He is a future Hall of Famer.

Yeah, of course he is. His legacy is someone who is just so committed to what he's doing. And you'll see in the, in the interview that we do, it comes out on Tuesday. He was in character for a lot of it. Like, I talked to Christian Cage for a lot of that interview. I didn't talk to Jay for a lot of that interview.

And I loved it. That was brilliant. There's not a lot of interviews I've done with people where they're in character. There's really only a few that immediately come to mind. Of course, you're thinking MJF. Yeah, that's one of them for sure. But his legacy will be that he is committed to what he does. does in a way that you don't see from a lot of performers.

And I also think that part of his legacy is just being so underrated. Christian doesn't have a lot of bad matches. I don't even, I can't think of any off the top of my head. I bet you can't either without doing a little bit of research. There really aren't any. So that's his legacy for sure. They, let me, there was, I think it was T.J. Wilson. Yeah.

Christian told a story about how T.J. Wilson called him the magician. because he would come back through the curtain no matter who he worked. And T.J. Wilson would be like, you did it again. You did it again. You made this person look great. And that's what Christian does. So that's really his legacy. And here we are at the last question. This is our longest Ask CVV yet.

Wow. So thank you for sticking around with us. I appreciate you. Looking forward to the next one. Ask CVV number 34. Who should it be? Ooh, what episode is that going to be? What addition will that one be?

Thank you for all these questions. Send yours in using that hashtag Ask CVV on social media or put them in the comments slash questions here on Spotify. Or email me, CVV at chrisfamily.com. This one's from awkward high five. My buddy Brian on Instagram, who is a massive card collector and has a very impressive collection. And he asks,

what is your favorite wrestling card of all time? Sidebar here. Did you listen to the most recent episode of Talkas Jericho with Jeremy Paddower? They talk about finding the Grail Chris Jericho card, the Corazon de Leon card made by Topps. Chris Jericho was tracking down this card and he found the highest rated version of this card that had been recorded. And it's like a very rare card. I don't, I think it's only four of these cards have ever been graded. And it's a fantastic episode. and it turns out that Brian, awkward high five, who was asked his question, he was the one who owned that card and sold it to Chris Jericho. So he owned this extremely rare card and sold it to Jericho.

And then Jericho tells us great story of how he had this card originally, couldn't find it, didn't know where it was. And then two days after getting the delivery from Brian of this card, he found it randomly in a storage locker. So now Chris Jericho, has two of the rarest wrestling cards in the world. So Chris Jericho owns these two very rare Chris Jericho cards. I love it. My favorite wrestling card is, I mean, I'm very, very new to collecting wrestling cards. I've really only been into this for the last few months, but I've been loving it.

I've really loved the 1982 Wrestling All-Stars Hulk Hogan card. And that's another Grail card as well. there's a PSA 9 of that card. There's nothing higher than that. So there's no perfect gem mint PSA 10 of this card. I'm very interested in that. Like, ooh, so the best card of this of Hulk Hogan's rookie card is a PSA 9. Well, is there a PSA 10 out there?

Maybe someone doesn't know, like it's sitting in their attic somewhere or like, you know, their grandpa has this in a box in the garage. Like, I'm very fascinated by that. Like, there's got to be a PSA 10 out there. I own one of these cards. I own a PSA 7 of the Wrestling All-Stars Hulk Hogan card, but I am on the hunt. So if you or anybody listening know somebody who has a

1982 Wrestling All-Stars, either Hulk Hogan or Rick Flair. I own a Rick Flair PSA-9 of that card, but I'm on the hunt for more. So if you have a any of them, any condition, shoot me a message, send me an email. let's talk. I'd be very interested in acquiring another one. And if you, if your grandma or grandpa or uncle has some of those cards and they're ungraded, my goodness, you could be sitting on a gold mine. I don't know the numbers because, again, very, very new to this. But I think a Hulk Hogan PSA 9 right now,

I think the last one sold for $44,000 three years ago. Am I right with that, Brian? So if you had a PSA 10, which again, they do not exist. But if you had one, I think we'd be talking six figures for that. Imagine you or somebody you know is sitting on that card. And you don't even aware of it. If you don't know the card I'm talking about, it's a Hulk Hogan card with a yellow border around it. So if that sounds familiar, your grandpa showed this to you one point in time.

Could be sitting on a gold mine here. So, yeah, that's my favorite card. Thank you guys so much for joining us on this one. I appreciate you. You already know what the next episode is. Huge one with Christian Cage, who is business partners with Adam Copeland on PurePlank. Of course, go to gopureplank.com. Use the code CVV to save yourself some money on that fantastic core workout.

I can't wait for you guys to hear this episode with Christian on Tuesday. And then we got Mark Henry. on Thursday. So a huge week, Christian Cage, Mark Henry, and Ask CVV number 34 happening on Friday. I will leave you with this quote from J.M. Berry. This one's powerful. This one speaks to me every single day, and I know this is going to speak to you. The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does. Be great. Be grateful. Have an amazing weekend. We will see you on the next one for some more insight. The Hammer Alley podcast, an 80s flashback

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