Insight with Chris Van Vliet - AskCVV #52 - I Was WRONG About Bad Blood, The Rock's Return, Raw's 2-Hour Show, Best Technical Wrestler Of All Time

Episode Date: October 11, 2024

Welcome to AskCVV #52! On this episode, Chris reviews Bad Blood and talks about a few things behind the scenes that you didn't see on TV, he also answers questions about The Rock's return, what the main event could be for WrestleMania 41, thoughts on Raw being 2 hours again, who the best technical wrestler of all time is, plans for Survivor Series and much more! If you have a question for the next AskCVV episode, leave a comment on Spotify or send it in on social media using the hashtag #AskCVV. Quote I'm thinking about: "The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn't go our way." - Gregg Popovich Sponsors: VUORI: Get 20% off your first purchase! Get yourself some of the most comfortable and versatile clothing on the planet at https://vuori.com/cvv MANSCAPED: Get 20% off plus free shipping when you use the code CHRISVAN at https://manscaped.com ZOCDOC: Instantly book a top-rated doctor today at https://zocdoc.com/insight BONCHARGE: Use the code CVV to save 15% off your infrared sauna blanket at https://boncharge.com/cvv MAREK HEALTH: Get a 10% discount on Marek Health's Optimization Package with code CVV: https://marekhealth.com/cvv BLUECHEW: Use the code CVV to get your first month of BlueChew for FREE at https://bluechew.com ROCKET MONEY: Join Rocket Money today and experience financial freedom: https://rocketmoney.com/cvv 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/ PLUNGE: Get $150 off your Plunge with the coupon code CVV150 at https://plunge.com For more information about Chris and INSIGHT go to: https://podcast.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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Happy Friday and welcome back to another one here on Insight. I'm CVV, Chris Van Vleet. Thanks for being with us on an Ask CVV episode. That's how I know you're a real one. If you're here right now and it's just me and you hanging out while you're driving to work or you're working out or you're walking the dog or whatever you're doing, I appreciate you. And thank you for helping to make Insight the number one wrestling podcast on the planet. If you haven't yet, hit a swan ton bomb on that subscribe button, that follow button on Spotify,

Apple Podcasts, or wherever it is that you're listening. Last week, I said, man, do you think we can get to 4,000 ratings on Spotify? We were at like 3.9K is what it said on Spotify. My friends, you guys are the best. Happy to say we are now at 4.1K. It's crazy. So thank you. Can we get to 5K before the end of the year?

Is that possible? Is that doable? I know it is, but we've got to be in this together to make this thing happen. 4.1K right now. You go into Spotify, if you're listening there, and I know that, I think it's more than half of the people that listen to the show are listening on Spotify. You go into where you're listening to it right now. You click on the three little dots. This is far too many steps. Hopefully they can make this a little bit easier. You click on the three little dots on the show, and then you click rate show. And then you'll see the stars that pop up from there.

I would hope it's five stars. I mean, I know it's not taking place in the Tokyo Dome, but I would hope maybe you'd rate it five stars. What a week that we had here. We'll talk a lot about. Bad Blood, I was in Atlanta for that. And start to finish, that was a solid show. Great opener.

My goodness, what a match. Perhaps one of the best Helen of Cell matches of all time, certainly the best storytelling in a hell and a cell match ever. Amazing. And then, well, it'll be, I think what the first question we talk about here, but what a way to end bad blood. Welcome, my friends, to Ask CVV number 52, the Ray Lewis and C.C. Sabathia edition. Oh, I had two legends right there. Who are going to do for Ask CVV number 53? Let me know. Send in those questions. Send in those suggestions. for what Ask CVV number 53 should be.

Send them in using that hashtag Ask CVV on social media. Leave a comment on Spotify for all of you that are listening on Spotify. And again, I know it's a lot of you. Or shoot me an email, CVV at chrisfamfleet.com. Jay Pruitt, 12, 3,4 on Spotify is going to kick things off with this question. Hey, I met you at the hotel we were both staying at in Atlanta. It was very nice talking with you and wanted to say that you were wrong and wrongs in all caps.

And The Rock did show up with four exclamation marks there. Awesome moment. What do you think that he's coming after first? And do you think that a triple threat match at WrestleMania is possible? I am very happy to say that, yes, I was wrong. I was completely and totally wrong about this. And we saw some hints last week when Cody was on Pat McAfee, and Cody said there's going to be a big tease there when we're talking about Crown Jewel.

And I think what Cody was referring to was the championship belt and possibly also champion versus champion happening at Crown Jewel. I think that's what Cody was talking about. When Pat McAfee was like the big guys coming back and I don't know if Pat realized that the camera was on him, although I guess you kind of have to assume when you've got a job like that, that the camera is always on you. And people were like, does he mean the Rock? Does he mean Brock Lesnar? Is there some other big guy that's coming back? Happy to say that I was very wrong.

And when you really think about it here, it makes sense. Rock comes back at Bad Blood to set the table for what happens at Survivor Series. And then from there, we will lead on to Royal Rumble. And then whatever inevitably ends up happening at WrestleMania 41. I kind of knew. Actually, I did know. I fully knew that the rock was coming back when I got to the arena. So there was a very specific door that the media needed to enter in. And it was really unclear how to get to that door. They were like, it's next to gate one. Well, all the other gates had a big sign above them. Gate two, gate three, gate seven. Gate one didn't. It was just a random door.

And we were entering into a random door next to this random door, not a door that had a big sign, like media entrance. It was actually the visitor's entrance for the arena. Didn't have a big sign of where we were to go. So we ended up walking around the arena like one and a half times and we kept getting the wrong directions. Oh no, it's go down those stairs over there. And then when you go down those stairs, you'll go to the left. Needless to say, we ended up following these very bad directions. Well intended, I'm sure, but we followed the wrong directions, we ended up on the loading dock, which is where all the superstars enter the building and all the employees enter the building. No sooner are we leaving the loading dock,

realizing we're in the wrong spot, and the Rock pulls up. Like the Rock's truck that you see in all of his social media posts, the truck that I've seen when I've interviewed the Rock, it's a Ford Raptor with a Florida license plate. He drives by. And we're like, oh my, was that? Yeah, was that the Rock? It was the Rock. So before the show started, that was probably an hour before the show started, we knew the rock was in the building. Why else would the rock be in the building unless he was going to appear on the show? So feel like I was tipped off to that. I didn't send out a tweet. I did not put that out publicly. I kind of felt like I saw something that maybe I wasn't supposed to see. I did text a friend or two,

and I was like, hey, guys, you should probably watch till the end of the show because I'm pretty sure the Rock is going to be there. I texted like two friends, but kind of kind of, kept that secret just, you know, close to the vest there. It was kind of, I don't know, it's cool being in on that. Just seeing this thing I wasn't supposed to see. But The Rock is back. I will also say this. Another little thing that I saw in person that nobody else would have seen if you were watching the program.

When everything had happened at the end of that main event match, it was kind of drawing on a little longer than normal, right? Like it was clear that something, they were setting up for something. We looked over to the entrance way and the fog from the fog machine for the rocks entrance. We didn't know it was the rock's entrance specifically, but the fog started to fill the entrance way. It started to come out of where the superstars enter from. And we kind of like, people I was sitting next to it was like hitting them like, hey, look at that. Oh my goodness.

And then no sooner did, if. You smell hit. So it's like, oh, we kind of saw that one coming too. So the rock is back. What does this mean? When do we see him again? Because it's not just he shows up here and then we see him at Survivor Series. He's got to make at least one appearance between now and Survivor Series to set up that match.

And that is the match that I feel like we're going to see. That one makes a lot of sense to me. I think it's going to be new bloodline versus old bloodline. And then maybe, I don't know, this is not a guess, this is not a prediction. But it could be a situation where Rock turns on Roman. Roman's big time over as a baby face. Rock's still doing the final boss thing, big time over as a heel, although it's still so fun to cheer the rock. Maybe Rock screws Roman or does something there that leads to a match later on.

I know it's only October as we're hanging out right now, but it still seems to me like we're going to see Rock versus Roman. That's a WrestleMania match. And they've been talking about this for, well, since WrestleMania 39, I still think that if everything lines up, they tried to do it, WrestleMania 39, Rock said they were close, but couldn't get there. They were clearly going to do this at WrestleMania 40, and the fans had another idea. I think that they're going to learn from their mistakes that they made leading up to WrestleMania 40 and try to tell this story in the way that it should be told. Because they were really trying to shoehorn the Rock into this match with Rock and Roman

at WrestleMania 40 and just kind of boot Cody to the side and say, hey, screw you. We're having this match. I think they're going to do it right this time. So I still think Rock Roman, WrestleMania. And I guess we'll figure out the rest here. That leads us into question number two. Why are I pretending like these questions are numbered? Just leads us to the next question here.

This is emailed in from Alex from Oregon. Ask CVV number 52, the Brad Miller edition. Yo, CVV. I had been watching your videos interviews on YouTube for about three years. And then this past summer, I stumbled upon the hidden treasure that is AskCV. My favorite part of each week now is popping in my headphones and going out on my five-mile run through the hills of Oregon while you and I hang out and talk wrestling on Ask CVV. It's the best.

You're the best. Now, Alex, you were the best. I appreciate this email. You had been adamant for weeks that the rock was not going to show up bad blood because it wasn't one of the big four PLEs or the premiere on Netflix. Not only did the final boss show up, but Jimmy Uso also returned. I'm just going to pause you here for a second. You're absolutely right.

I was wrong. Totally wrong. Happy to be wrong here. Jimmy Uso returned. I feel like we kind of all saw that one coming. In fact, the odds on my book. Bucky had Jimmy Uso returning, like there was a very, seemed very likely according to the odds there.

Like the odds were good on that one. So I kind of all assumed that Jimmy Uso would be there. Back to your question here. Do you think Triple H, much like Jay went in the intercontinental title on raw or even KO turning on Cody via fan videos, is signaling to everyone that you can't take for granted any program, PLE or even social media? Or do you think that they just happen to? to be story-driven moments. I think to borrow a phrase from my good friend, Sam Roberts,

everything counts in this era. Everything counts. Think about how the rock started planting the seeds for his heel turn. It wasn't on a WWE program. It wasn't on a PLE. It was an interview that he did on the Pat McAfee show. And then that clip ended up getting played on WWB programming, but it's everything counts now, like social media counts now more than it ever has. There was a point in time, call it three plus years ago, when if something happened on Twitter or someone posted something on Instagram, it kind of existed in its own little realm, like social media with its own little universe, but it doesn't count unless it happens on Raw or Smackdown or NXT or a PLA. Now that is gone. That is completely out the window. Everything counts.

now in this era. And I think you're starting to see little things that end up kind of getting peppered in here worth making you realize that like, oh, that thing matters there. That promo that the rock cut on Instagram, that matters. That ties into a storyline here. I'm so glad you brought up the K.O. turning on Cody. That was specifically done, knowing that the fans are smart and they're going to be taking video of this. So the way that the arena was set up is there were these walkways that walked over top, like probably two stories up over top of where that exact area I was just talking about, where the talent went in and out of the arena on the loading dock. So when the event ended, there were a whole bunch of people that were leaving from that section of the arena that

had to walk through, walk over this walkway. If you watch that segment, there was no WWE production there. There's no one with a headset on standing there producing it. There's no lighting. There's no camera person. There's no WWE social media person standing there and filming this on their iPhone. They did this knowing that even if the, even if KO was just standing there or even if Cody was just standing there and nothing happened, fans were going to film that anyway. So I also noticed that when I was down on the loading dock, Cody's bus, which you can't miss. It's wrapped in this Wheatley vodka logo. You can't miss it.

It's very obvious that it's Cody's bus that he travels on from city to city to city. It was very prominently parked in the loading dock. So even if you're leaving the arena, maybe you're to snap at a photo. There's Cody's bus. It's so cool. Oh, man, Pharaoh's on that bus. You can see Pharaoh on the door of the bus. they knew that if they just put any superstar out there,

people were going to grab their phones, take a video. Well, what happens if we make a storyline out of that? What happens if it's Cody and Keo having a conversation that turns into a beatdown that turns into his heel turn? Kevin Owens turned heel, not on Raw, not on Smackdown, not on a PLE, turned heel. Not a loading dock in Atlanta, Georgia that was filmed on cell phone video. It's amazing.

Like that is the era that we live in now. And I just so appreciate that Triple H and everybody else in charge understands how smart that fans are. They're not, we're not an era anymore where the fans are being treated as like dumb or stupid or, oh man, that thing, that thing over here didn't work. Just forget about that. And we'll just show you this other thing over here. I appreciate that we're living in a time right now where they go,

if we put that out there, if we, if we put this right in front of them, they have to film it. I loved that that happened. I think we're going to start to see more of these things. I mean, think of how many times before Liv and Dom were officially together. Think of how many times we saw them in the background of these shots. We would see them in a backstage segment or we would see a backstage segment featuring someone else. And then we would, if you were looking with a keen eagle eye, you would see them in the background. I just appreciate it. reminds me of movies. And I remember a director telling me in an interview years ago that everything on the screen matters. Like there's no, well, there are plenty of mistakes in movies,

but everything has been thought out. Like every line that's being said that makes the final cut of a movie, every, the score that they choose for the music, that's been approved by a whole bunch of people. The shot choices, the editing choice, all of that in a movie is done very specifically to tell a story. And while it's difficult to do that with live programming, like Raw or Smackdown or NXT, they're planting so many more of these seeds to go, yeah, that matters. And we might not tell you what that means on this particular show. And we might not even tell you next week.

But that, just keep that in your mind because at some point in time, we're going to explain that one to you, maybe two weeks from now, a month from now, whenever it happens to be. and I just really respect. I really respect so much that the fans are being treated with that reverence of like, they get it. They know. And they're going to comb through. I mean, think of when the,

think of when the Wyatt Six vignettes first started playing and people were like going by, going through them frame by frame by frame, looking for different things and trying to decode things. This isn't new at all. When you think about Chris Jericho's, I-2J, WWE debut in 1999. It was the same thing that was going on. People were dissecting this and like trying to find messages in the code.

I love that. And I love that it's just a little bit more at the forefront now than it ever was. And I expect that to be constantly a thing in this era that we're in right now. So I think to just to your point here, Alex from Oregon, yes, it is signaling. to everyone that you can't take for granted anything. And I understand we've all got things that are going on in our life. And you might not be able to watch every single second of every single wrestling show that happens to be on during the week.

And I think we're very fortunate to be living in a time right now that if something big happens, it will be reposted on Twitter or Instagram or Facebook or there'll be many different videos made about it on YouTube. I appreciate that. But there's a lot of different. little things that are going on, and I just appreciate that it's all being tied together. It's really cool to see.

Summer of Punk 99 on Twitter says, What's up, CVV? It was so cool to see you in the press conference at Bad Blood. You might have seen my shoulder or the back of my head in that press conference. Was it just me? Was the crowd in Atlanta really quiet? I don't know if it was just you, but I think that, I mean, that crowd in person was loud,

especially when the show started. I mean, it started hot and Drew McIntyre, CM Punk, their entrances, some massive moments. Like I said, I think that's the best storytelling that we've ever seen in a Hell in a Cell match. There was also, just a little aside here, there was also for such a long time, a need to try to find a way out of Hell and a Cell.

And I think that the bar was set massively high, far too high by Mick Foley and Undertaker in that infamous match. So there was always, they were always trying to find a way to like get out of the cell. I just so appreciate that in this match,

they just stayed, they had no, they were not looking to leave the cell at all. They were using it as like a weapon. They were using it to like contain all the violence that was happening inside of there. I don't think that the crowd was quiet at all. I had recently been to Raw,

just two weeks before in Ontario, California when Jay Uso won the Intercontinental Championship. And I can tell you, that it was a lot louder at bad blood than it was on raw, a lot louder. I just think that we have been so spoiled this year from some incredible, incredible international crowds, not just this year, but if you go back to backlash last year, Puerto Rico backlash this year and Leon France, Clash of the Castle, like those international crowds

just take it to a whole new level. And I've talked at great length why that is the case. You know, if WWE is coming to Leone, France, this is, and I don't know the numbers here specifically, this might be the first show that you've had in three years or four years or I don't know what the exact numbers are. When WWE is coming to Atlanta, Georgia, for example, for bad blood, this might be, including Raw and Smackdown or maybe a house show. This might be the third live event or the third WWE event in the last year. And including AEW, this might be the fifth wrestling show or the fourth wrestling show that you've had access to be able to go to in 12 months.

The urgency just isn't there in the same way. So I think that what you end up getting with these international crowds is just like this excitement that's boiling over. It's like, man, we've wanted to go to a show for the last two or three years. And they just haven't had the option to do this as soon as they announce it. Of course, I grab tickets. Of course I'm going to be there. And of course, I'm going to scream my head off. and sing along to all the songs and chant and all of that fun stuff.

I just think there's not as much of an urgency when it's the second or third or fourth option that you've had to go to. And I've pointed this out many times before. I'm fortunate that I live in and around the Los Angeles area. In just the last year, and I'm going to totally get this wrong, it was in Ontario, California two weeks ago. So that would be if you live in L.A., you know, 45 minute, hour, maybe plus drive, depending on what part of L.A. you live in. And you've just got a lot more options. I don't want to go through all of them because I'm inevitably going to miss all the events that were in town. I don't think it was quiet at all. I do think that certain arenas sound louder when you're there in person and it maybe doesn't play like that on TV. That's got to be the case because halfway through, I noticed there were some comments on the, posts that I made about what are your predictions for tonight?

I posted a photo of me inside the arena. And there was one comment that was like, is it just me or is the crowd really quiet? And it had like a ton of likes. And I'm like, really? Like, it is loud here. It was so loud. I was sitting next to Brad Gilmore,

my good friend, who was the co-host of Booker T's podcast, Hall of Fame, I was sitting next to Brad. And there were a lot of times when like, we were yelling at each other to have this conversation. And there were some points where we just had to like stop. wait for the crowd to die down and then we could oh yeah so that was the thing that i was telling you

it was loud in there and i just don't think that it played like that on camera it's just just my opinion i was real loud calen odlam emailed this one in hey cvv it's caleb autumn kaelin odlem from austral after watching drew versus punk in helen assel do you think that we can officially say that the PG era is over. That match was epic. Cheers, mate. Yeah, there were a lot of blood. That was a lot of blood in that match. And if CM Punk's was done intentionally, I'm pretty sure he bladed. Drew McIntyre's was not. Was it 16? I think it was 16 staples that he had from that toolbox to the top of his head. Yeah, I think that they were very creative in that match too. Been a lot of hell in a cell matches. that one of bad blood was the 53rd Helena Sell match.

And it's what's, what blew me away most about that match was when there's been 52 other matches like this before, how do you make it a little bit different? How do you do something that makes people go, wow. Oh, I didn't see that one coming or wow. That was really innovative how they did that. And that's exactly what they did with this one. That's going to be,

it should be on everybody's list as one of the best. matches of the year, just from start to finish, everything that happened in that match. But there's been a lot of little hints here leading up to it. It sure seems to me like raw Netflix is not going to be PG. And I think that seeing a match like this really solidifies that that is the case. So yeah, the PG era is over. I think that you may still see the rating on raw. Smackdown as PG.

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It felt a little rushed, didn't it? And it's interesting that nobody gives WWE or any wrestling program, for that matter, any grace when they do something slightly different. raw has been a three-hour show since its 1,000th episode, which was in July of 2012. So for the last 12-plus years, they've had a three-hour format. So them going back to two hours, it's a big adjustment, especially after more than a decade of going, yeah, this is the format. This is what the rundown of the show is. And a rundown of a television program is essentially like, this segment's going to be, just making up numbers here, 12 minutes.

then we're going to have two and a half minutes of commercial. The next segment's going to be 15 minutes. Then we're going to have three minutes of commercial and so on and so and so on. That's how a rundown works. Their rundown had to shift and change a lot. And I think maybe they were still trying to cram just as many ads in, like the three hours worth of ads into two hours. Kind of felt that way, didn't it?

I think just give it some time. Like instead of like judging like, oh man, the first week of two hours on Raw, let's look at it. Give it some time. Give it like two or three or four weeks for them to figure out the pacing again, for them to figure out what the rundown looks like of it.

Because I distinctly remember when Raw moved to three hours in 2012, how many people complain? It's way too long. And I get it at that point in time. Yeah, maybe wrestling was dipping down, a little bit and things weren't nearly as exciting as they currently are right now. But there was a lot of people complaining at that point in time that raw didn't need to be

three hours. Two hour raw already sucks. Why are we going to make it another hour and make it a three hour crappy show? The end of the day, and this isn't exclusively to wrestling, people just don't like change. That is across the board. people just don't like change. Like when a team changes their uniform or like when a new actor comes into a series, like people just don't like change.

Then it takes them a little bit of time and then they get used to it again or they realize that maybe this works better. People just don't like that instant change. And that's where we're at right now. So let's talk about the two hour raw in a few weeks and answer the second part of your question, how long do you think Raw is going to be on Netflix? I don't think we're going to be talking about a two hour raw. Raw for very long. I don't think Raw is going to have to have a hard out time when it's on Netflix.

Like, I don't think it needs to be exactly three hours or exactly two hours. I think it will be three-ish hours. This is, again, just a guess. And Triple H was keeping that one real close to the vest when asked about it during the bad blood press conference. He was like, when I find out, I'll let you know. It's like, well, come on. You know, you know how long. it's going to be, we're just not there with the official announcement yet, and that's okay. Raw could, I think, total guess again, but I think raw on Netflix could some weeks be three hours and 13 minutes and then maybe the next week it's two hours and 47 minutes. And then the week after that, it's three minutes and two minutes, three hours and two minutes.

I think it'll have a little bit of flux to it, which I think's really cool. I also don't think that they're going to have any hard and fast commercial breaks. Right now, they need to take commercial breaks at a very specific time. When it's on Netflix, first of all, we've talked about this a bunch. I don't think there needs to be commercials. I think there's going to be some like internal advertisements there. Like you might see like a promo for WrestleMania 41 or you might see a promotional tie in to like WW2K. But I don't think you're going to see the same amount of.

commercials. And it's going to be really interesting to see how the pacing of that all ends up shaking out. So we'll see. Jason the sellout on Jason the sellout. I want to name on Spotify. Who do you personally think is the greatest quote in ring wrestler of all time? So we're talking technical in ring stuff here. I think you can't go wrong answering. this with either Brett Hart or Kurt Engel. Like when you're just talking like a mat technician, like in-ring, telling the story with just the moves, I think that's it. It's either Brett or it's Kurt.

Sure, there could be another few names that are thrown in there, but I think across the board, no one's going to argue with you that Brett's not a great in-ring wrestler. And no one's going to argue with you if you say that Kurt Angle's a great in-ring wrestler. So for me, they're one, two. Depending on the day, I think maybe today I'll put Kurt Angle as my number one. And then Brett Hart is like 1B. And then maybe tomorrow it'll be the other way around. Brett Hart, and my fellow Canadian, he'll be 1A and current angle will be 1B.

Bam, bam, bam on Spotify. Ask CVV. Call me crazy, but I see you being invited to the Royal Rumble in the next five years. If so, who will show up? CVV or Chris Sharp? Bam Bam, yes. You are crazy. Look, I suppose they say never, say never in wrestling. But the odds of me getting invited to be part of a Royal Rumble are extremely slim. If this was my bookie, I would not recommend you placing a wager on that. There are far more deserving people

that should be in the Royal Rumble over me. But let's fantasy book this for just one second. Who would show up? I think it would have to be Chris Sharp. He's the guy who trained to be a wrestler. Not Chris Van Vleet, the guy who holds microphones and talks into them. It would have to be Chris Sharp. He's sharp talking, sharp walking, sharp dressing.

I mean, come on. You don't get to a billion views on YouTube just by accident, right? A whole lot of podcasts out there that wish they could have the lineup of guests that we've had over the last 12 months. It's been epic, the run that we've been on. You don't just get placed on the top of the mountain. You climb your way up there over top of the other bodies that have come before. What kind of promo is this?

What am I talking about? Where was that going? I even put my sunglasses on as I was talking there. I'd like to see a few more surprises in the Royal Rumble, if we're talking Royal Rumble right now. that's always been my favorite part about the Royal Rumble. I love seeing the nostalgic pop. Like when Diamond Dallas Page was in the Rumble

or when Diesel made a special guest appearance in the Rumble, not Kevin Nash, Diesel was in the Rumble. I would love to see, and I don't think it's possible because he's in TNA, but Santino Morella needs to be in the Rumble at some point, even if it's just to break that fastest elimination record, because he told me, I don't know if you remember this.

He told me during our interviews, like, I know how to beat it. There's a way to beat it. I know how to make it even faster. We got to see that. It'd be such a funny moment. Or just put him in the ring for like, I love when the legends come out.

Put him in the ring for just one spot, one moment. I love when the legends come out or when there's like a nostalgic, like, throwback like someone you haven't seen in five or ten years and they get the moment from like their music hits and they get like the whatever time until the next person comes out so they they come out there spot spot spot and then elimination as soon as their feet hit the ground boom the next person's entrance music hits or the countdown starts usually the countdown starts not the music hits i just i think that the rumble always has one or two of those moments i look forward to what those are going to be. But bam, bam,

it is not going to be me. I know they say never, say never in wrestling, but that's a, that's a never. They're not having, they're not having me in the rubble because my name would pop up. And 98% of the audience would go, what? Who? Because if it's Chris Sharp, they went, what the heck is Chris Sharp? Who? Huh? And if it's my real name, you've got the majority of the audience going,

Chris Van Vlaiatt, Chris Van Valiate, Chris Van Valié, what is this? Who's that? What? Who is that guy? Huh, who, who, who, who, what is this? I don't know. I think that's that guy from YouTube. What?

It's a nice thought, but it's not aback. This one's from Keshen Martin on Spotify. This is, this is the part of the show where we bring in the best looking guests that we've ever had. on the show, my beautiful, lovely, glowing, beautiful. I already said beautiful, but let's go with beautiful again, wife, RVV, Rachel Van Vleet. We missed you last week, honey. I missed everyone. It was a sad week to not be on the show. Let me tell you, the amount of Ask RVV questions that we got this week, I think you're going to make up for last week because you weren't with us. I like it. Let's get

started. So Kesheen Martin says, Ask CVV and RVV number 52, the Ray Lewis. edition with Halloween right around the corner, what was a favorite Halloween costume as a kid? P.S. My pop punk Mount Rushmore is Green Day, Blink 182, 741, and Simple Plan. That's a good Mount Rushmore. Four pretty good ones there. I like that. So what was your favorite Halloween costume as a kid? I cannot think of one Halloween costume as a kid. And my mom's gonna be shaking her head at this, I'm sure. Not one? I mean, I know I've done like the clown and the pumpkin and the witch and the like everything to be expected, but like something that was my favorite,

I don't know. I could tell you my favorite as an adult. Okay. Me and one of my best friends were sunny and Sharon. And I was sunny. With the mustache and everything? With the mustache and the wig. And it was great.

That was my favorite Halloween costume as an adult. For like adult women, don't all the costumes, it's sexy. this and sexy that's you were sexy sunny no i was just straight up sunny i think i've seen photos of this right yeah it's a good one yeah as a kid i remember i didn't have anything this one year and my mom was like why don't you be a baker and i love i love my parents so much but it was just like we we wore a uh i wore an apron and i had a wooden spoon and she put some flour on my face and she put some flour on my face

and that was the costume. It sounds pretty creative, though. Like a good last minute creative one. Sixth grade, my favorite costume, I was obsessed with pirates at that point in time. And I bought everything. Like, I remember going to Fabric Land. Shout out to any Canadians who remember Fabric Land.

And I bought, like, it was specifically for, like, the bandana I was going to wear and, like, the shirt. My mom, like, stitched that all up, which looked amazing. I had this black beard. Like, I was a pirate. I had every, I had all these different. friend an eye patched, a sword. I had everything. That was a really good one. How was your pirate voice? Yeah. I'm a pirate. Yeah. So pretty not good. That was pretty good. Yeah. It needs a little work.

Have you seen the new pirates movie? It's rated. Oh, boy. That was good. Oh, it was good. I was very proud in college. We would, we found a Halloween hack, my friends and I. Well, one year, I love, in a house with four other guys. We went to a Goodwill and we all bought like old blazers and we were used car salesmen. It was like just a terrible costume. But the next year, we figured out a hack that if we bought kid size costumes, they were like half price. So like I was kid size Superman. We're talking like kids size like an eight year old's costume. But I'm like, man, it's only like 20 bucks instead of 40. You know how many more drinks I can buy with that money that I saved? Logic.

Yeah. That's college logic for you. I learned a lot in college, clearly. Math. Specialty was math. Yeah, beer math. Really. So can't think of one though.

As a kid, I think we just really stuck to like those traditional costumes, like the real simple. Yeah, which if there's something really unique, I'll have to ask my mom. But I'm just picturing like the clown and, you know, the pumpkin and. and the witch and a lion. I think there was a lion one year. But I don't remember anything that was like, this was my favorite one as a kid. Our daughter's going to be a duck this year

because every time she sees a duck on TV or basically just the yellow duck, not an actual duck. I don't think she really knows what an actual duck looks like. But when she sees a duck, she goes, dog. She sees any type of bird, though, she says duck. So I think she thinks anything with wings

and a beak is a duck. at this point. So she's going to be a duck. That's her costume. All right, we also got Josh Fraser, who left this one on Facebook. Ask RVV. What is your favorite wrestling finishing move, and would you be able to pull it off on Chris? My favorite has been the widow's peak still after all these years. That's Victoria's finisher, by the way, honey. I'm going to need a description on what the widow's peak is. I don't know that's a really tough one to describe. I feel like I'd have to show it to you. It's very devastating to watch. Like it's, you kind of got the person's arms and their legs, like, bent behind them,

and you just kind of drop down, you're given the move, you drop down on your ass. And, yeah. I'm going to need a video later, I guess. Maybe not a demonstration while I'm pregnant. Probably. Probably not. I think the better question here, Josh, is can RVV name one finishing move? Is the people's elbow a finishing move or is that just a move?

You know what? He's won enough matches with the people's elbow that, yeah, you could call that. Yeah, you could call that the finish. Actually, he used that at WrestleMania 40. He beat Cody Rhodes with the people's elbow. Bingo, my favorite finishing move then. Wow, there you go. Could you give me the people's elbow?

I think I could, maybe not, you know, without a fight from you, but I could. I mean, really, the great thing about the people's elbow is it's all just show. Like, you don't need muscle to get someone up in that move. The person just lays there the whole time. You do all the work. People's elbows like, you take off the elbow pad, you throw it in the crowd, you do the back and forth with your arms, run to this side of the ropes, hop over the person, run to this side of the ropes, stand over them, then drop the elbow.

Could you name your favorite finishing move? I mean, I guess you could, but what is? It's really hard to narrow it down to just one. I think the RKO is probably the top of that list right now. Just because that's one, when he hits that out of nowhere, the way he's hit it on people like Evan Bourne out of the shooting star press, of course the stomp into the beautiful RKO on Seth Rawlins at WrestleMania 31. Like, was that WrestleMania 31?

I believe it was. Those are, I think the RKO is my favorite just because it's so clean the way that he does that. So. I agree. Yes. It's Randy Orton's move, by the way. And even though this next one isn't specifically an Ask RVV, I pulled this in because I'm actually curious about what you would say here. Kathleen Gross on Facebook says, if you could be a contestant on any game show, which game show and why?

This is a good one. I always wanted to be on wipeout that show with like the crazy obstacle course. Yeah. If we can go way back in time, I always wanted to be on Nickelodeon's Legends of the Hidden Temple with the Blue Barracudas and the Purple Panthers and the whatever iguanas. Oh my God.

I am very unfamiliar since we didn't have Nickelonian in Canada. What is this? Is kids games show? It was kind of similar with like obstacles and challenges and everything, but just the way that the show was put on was so intriguing to me. And I felt like I could just kick ass in it. I think my pick. would be, it's clearly not Jeopardy,

because I'm not smart enough to be on Jeopardy. And I would just look like a fool there. They'd be like, oh, let's go to Chris, who's minus 10,000 right now. This condiment is made from mustard seeds. Catch up. That's Celebrity Jeopardy. I love that.

It's hot. It's funny because it's oversized hat. It's funny because it's larger than a normal hat. You know what I'm talking about? I feel like it's like a Simpson something. That's Saturday Night Live. That's Bert Reynolds. That's so good.

I'm going to go with Price is right. I feel like my guessing of prices is already pretty good. I can confirm this. This is true. Whenever we are at Costco or a restaurant or anything and we guess a bill, a receipt, you are very, very spot on. Price is right. I'd also, I would be $1.00 and everybody's ass on the content.

test and show down there. I don't like those people. And stop overpricing things. You let me guess a very accurate, hard guess, but then you just want not be my $1. $1. I'm under. Price is right rules.

You would love, and you would have been so good at Bumper Stumpers, which is a Canadian game show, where they would put up the, like, you know, people like make the license plates with the seven or eight characters, and then they're trying to make a phrase out of it. Bumper Stumpers was a whole show of like,

What does this bumper say? What does this license plates say? And I'm obsessed with license plates. I read them every time we're in the car. Bumper stumper, that would have been, that would have been your one. I would have nailed it. You're right. Well, thank you for coming back on here.

I have so much fun. Thanks for having me. We get to hang out here. It's great. And, man, big baby boys coming along here. Yeah, nine more weeks to go. December 11th is the big day. So you may not be on many asks CVVs.

There may not be some ASC CVs around that time, and that's, that's okay. It's the holidays anyway. Everyone needs a break during that time. Yeah. And, you know, we've got, we've got some other things that we're doing, like making a human here. Very true. I said, we. I'm not doing anything at this point.

I'm growing eyeballs right now. All right. Thank you, my love. You're the best. Cameron Bennett emailed this one. Hey, Chris, my name is Cameron Bennett. I just wanted to hear your thoughts. the WWVault YouTube channel. I've been able to see so many cool things that I never would have seen

otherwise. Have you been watching it? Keep up the great work, sir. I love it. And I'm shocked that it took this long to create the WWV vault YouTube channel. I understand that most of the matches, or I should say a lot of the matches that they feature on there, have always been available on the network. Like, they're there, but you've got to dig through them to kind of find those gems. Like, they'll feature like a big money in the bank match or like I'm actually looking at some of their top videos here. Like they've got the full match for Undertaker versus Mankind. Like these have always existed, but it's cool for them to highlight like just that one big match. And then you get some really cool stuff like you're seeing like dark matches or you're seeing like

the promo that earned Kevin Owens a WWE contract or you're seeing CM Punk's very first WWE appearance in a dark match, like it looks like a completely different human being versus who we see right now. I think it's, it's just really cool to see that stuff. And nostalgia is, stop me if you've heard this, nostalgia is a hell of a drug.

And what the WWE Vault YouTube channel does is it takes a giant dose of nostalgia and it injects it in your veins. kind of like turning two promos into one right there. It's been really, really cool to see that. And I'm interested to see where it goes from here. I'm looking at what is the most viewed video, what is the most popular video on the WWV Vault?

The Complete History of the Shield, Chapter 1. It's two hours and 21 minutes. It's a playlist. Man. Then number two, you've got the full match Undertaker and Roman Raines versus. versus Drew McIntyre and Shane O'Mack at Extreme Rules. Wow.

Extreme Rules 2019. Then you've got full match, team WWE versus the Nexus 7-on-7 elimination match, SummerSlam 2010. There's just so many gems in here. It's been really cool to see this. I also like that they're taking requests. So like fans are able to write in the comments like, hey, could you put this thing in there?

Could you put that thing in there? Like they just as I'm recording this right now, they just put in full match. Brett Hart versus Sting for the U.S. title, Halloween Havoc 98. Oh my goodness. You could just get lost in a black hole of watching incredible matches on here. So it's fairly new. Can we see how new it is? Maybe not.

I mean, it's just a few. Oh, May 16th, 2024 is when the channel started. And it already has a hundred and three. 36 million views. Crazy. I mean, it's one-tenth of the views that the CVVEclipse channel has. Just saying, no.

I mean, they're going to blow me out of the water. They've already got 494,000 subscribers. This channel's going to be at a million subscribers before the end of the year, or at least damn close. Mark my words on that one. Cody Mitchell emailed this one in. Hey, Chris, I'm becoming a father for the first time in January

to a baby boy. Well, Cody, congratulations. That is going to change. your life. I would like to know, how did you feel leaving the hospital and driving home? Were you scared, nervous, and did you drive slow? So, it's a funny story, they let you out of the hospital, like when you're, when you're cleared to go home and everything's okay with, with mama, and you get to leave. They just kind of like, you go. I don't know how the case is, I don't know how it's going to be for you, wherever you are.

America or in the world. But you just get discharged and then you just leave. Like they wheelchair, mom holding the baby to the door and I pulled the truck up. That's it. It's like, okay, like, congratulations. Like, see you later. We had no idea how the car seat worked. None.

Like, no clue. And we sat there watching YouTube videos and like trying to figure out how the car seat worked for no exaggeration, 15, 20 minutes. And the baby's screaming and obviously we're tired from the events of the last few days because I don't know if I've mentioned this recently, but Rachel was in labor for 42 hours. So it was a long, it was a long weekend and quite literally a long weekend. She was born on Memorial Day. Logan was born on Memorial Day.

So we're sitting there trying to figure out how does this thing? work. What do you push this and you pull that? And yeah, so that was very interesting. So that's a little piece of advice. Figure out how the car seat works before you get to the hospital. Okay. Like if your baby boy is going to be coming in January, maybe you want to look into that like now. They just try to figure out. It's pretty easy once you figure it out. But figure it out now. So that's number one. Number two, we drove. to the hospital so fast. The hospital was like maybe 15-ish minutes, 17 minutes away.

We drove there so fast. It was like almost midnight. It was like 11.45 p.m. on a Saturday night when we drove there. Actually, it was a Sunday night. Labor had started the day before. We drove there so fast. So fast. And then drove so slow on the way home.

and like I'm driving and Rachel's in the backseat and Logan's in the car seat so slow. I like the whole time. She's like she doing okay? She all right? Is everything okay? Like you just have, you're figuring it all out as you go. Like every minute, every hour, every day, every week. You're figuring it all out and try, you know, it's a lot of trial and error is just figuring,

especially in those early weeks, figuring out what works, what doesn't, work and sometimes a thing that worked yesterday does not work today and may never work again. You're figuring out new things and maybe yesterday holding them this certain way, got them to calm down when they were crying. And now today that's making them cry even more. It is all an amazing adventure, my friend. So Cody, I want to be one of the first to congratulate you. We've got a baby boy coming a month before, December 11th, like I just said, you're going to have one in January. hey, congrats. Congrats to you.

Also, I always love pointing this out when somebody has an early birthday. The book Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, fantastic, amazing book. I highly recommend it. He has a whole chapter where he's talking about how 40% of the best players in the NHL. And this applies to a lot of sports, but he was specifically talking about the NHL, are born between January 1st or January and March. and then 30% are born between April and June and then 20% are born between July and September

and like a low percentage is born later in the year. And the whole theory behind this is that if your kid is born earlier in the year, a January baby is that much bigger and more mature and has almost a full year of growth on a December baby, for example. So when you've got a January baby playing hockey, because that's the example that Malcolm Gladwell uses against a December baby, it's 11 years older. And when your kid is, 11 months older, 11 months older. And when your kid's 5 or 6 or 7 years old, it's almost like it's a 5-year-old playing, if you're a December birthday, playing against a 6-year-old because they're almost a full year bigger. So I don't know, I'd just like to throw that in that if your kid is

born in January, they statistically do have a chance of being a better athlete statistically. I mean, there's so many other factors that go into this. But just read that chapter of the book. Malcolm Gladwell explains it far better than I do. Fellow Canadian as well. Brownie Licious underscore brownies on Instagram. Hey, question for Ask CVV. WrestleMania 40s got me back into wrestling. I dipped in and out ever since about 1991.

I've now been converted. I've now converted the wife and we watch Raw and Smackdown every week. We're going to a tour show in Sheffield, England in less than four weeks. None of us have been to a live show and we are beyond excited. What can we? expect from a live show. I love getting questions like this. First of all, just have a blast. Like, you are going to have so much fun there. Arrive a little bit early. Just get to your seat, scope everything out, take a bunch of photos. Get in line early because the line for the merch,

especially these days, is insanely long. So I think that's a good piece of advice. If you are looking to buy any sort of merch, get there early and get in line, or else you're going to be missing some matches because you're going to be standing in line for so long, trying to get merch. I think one of the things that throws people off the most about going to a live event is not hearing commentary, which when you're going to your first show, you're so used to hearing the voices of the commentator kind of leading you through and telling you everything that's going on. Just kind of keep in mind that that won't be happening. You're going to be seeing everything for yourself and taking it in for yourself and

you're going to have to put the pieces together and connect the dots. and figure out what does this mean here without the commentators explaining it to you. Depending on where your seats are, and I think that this surprises a lot of people, you may not watch the action in the ring nearly as much as you think. You may end up watching the screen more than you expect.

And it depends where your seats are. If you're super close to the ring, you might do a little bit of both, probably more watching the ring and then watching a little bit of the screen. But if you're way back, you may do a little more screen watching than you will watching what's going on in the ring. But above all else, what's really cool about going to any wrestling show, whether it's

WW or AEW or New Japan or whatever it happens to be, is you are in a building with a whole bunch of like-minded individuals. Like everybody else there is a wrestling fan. And that's what's the really cool thing. because in your daily life, yeah, maybe your friend is a wrestling fan or your brother or your cousin or your neighbor or the guy that you work with, whatever. But here, you're now surrounded with thousands of other wrestling fans. You know, easy it is to strike up a conversation when you're in line for a beer about what happened on Raw last week or when you're in line to buy merchandise

and the person next to is wearing a Cody shirt. And you're like, oh, my gosh, I love Cody too. Like the conversation just flow so easily. Like people are just excited to be. be there. So enjoy it. Have a really, really great time and you're going to be hooked. This is not going to be, this may be your first, but it is not going to be your last wrestling show that you go to. I can promise you that. Squidwardian on Instagram. Now that the WrestleMania ticket sale date is out, will you be attending? Well, I was, I had already, I already knew that I was going to be attending even before the ticket sale date had been announced. Yes, I will be there. WrestleMania 41. It's about a four-ish hour drive to Las Vegas from where we live.

And it's going to be epic. We don't even know what the card is. We don't even know one person who's going to be there. And we can make a lot of assumptions. But yes, I am going to be there. You're actually reminding me here that I should probably get a hotel now. And anybody else is listening to this, you might want to try to get a hotel now instead of, after the tickets go on sale and people know that they're going to be going or like or confirm that they're going to be going. I think there's a lot of people listening to this right now who, yeah, you don't have the tickets yet, but you know you're going. You know you're going to buy them the day they go on sale or you're going to find a way to get there. So yeah, I think buying a hotel

room, reserving that hotel room now makes a lot of sense. The last few years, I've been staying at the RussellCon hotel. So RussellCon, massive wrestling convention with just about anybody you can think of that's ever been a part of wrestling at some point in time. Current and also legends are there. This year, Russell Cohns at Westgate, the Westgate Resort and Casino. So I would assume I'll stay there. I don't know. I feel like it makes sense, although it's kind of on the other side of the strip from where most of the other stuff is going to be happening. It's close to the sphere. And I still think, I still think that WWE is going to do something at the sphere, whether that's Smackdown or Raw or both. I still still.

think something's going to be at the sphere. But West skates on the other side of the strip from Aletian Stadium and also from T-Mobile's arena where, that's like the arena where the Golden Knights play where they've had Ron Smackdown there before. They've had a lot of UFC events there. That's where I would assume they're going to do

an event or two, but man, the sphere. And Triple H even hinted at that during the Bad Blood Press conference. He's like, oh, I saw what they did with UFC 306 and I'm watching that. Thinking of myself, it'd be cool if we did something there. I would think that not just Triple H, but everybody in WWE was watching UFC 306 at the sphere very closely to kind of see how they could put their own spin on it. But yes, I will be in Las Vegas that weekend for sure. I'm excited about it. We talked a little bit earlier.

I still think, and it's way, way, way in advance right now. So don't hold me to this. It's October as we're recording this. I still think that they're going to try to find a way to make it Rock versus Roman. And then you've got two main events, right? You've got the Saturday and the Sunday main event. I think that John Sina would be a main event there. I would have to think that.

It makes a lot of sense. Is it Sina versus Cody? Is it Sina versus Randy? Does that mean that Randy at some point beats Cody? Because I don't think that Rock versus Roman needs a championship. There's just so much else at stake there. That match itself is already sold. You don't need a title to also be part of the picture there. So does Cody keep the championship all the way until WrestleMania 41?

Does he start a program with Randy Orton, where Randy Orton wins the championship and then it's Randy Orton versus John Cena? That's where I'm leaning towards right now. But I would have to think one of the nights at WrestleMania has got to be Johnson. It's his last WrestleMania. He's not just going there to have a match. He's going there to have the match. So who's it against? I don't know.

But yes, I will be there. I'm also trying to still find a way to do a live episode of Insight, not just at WrestleMania in Las Vegas. I'm also trying to figure this out. Hopefully, if things all pan out, We can announce this relatively soon. But February 1st, Indianapolis, the Royal Rumble, I'm hoping to do a live show there.

Got to figure out who the guest or guests could be there. But I've kind of got that penciled in. We'll see. It'd be July 31st, the Friday, right before and the day before the Royal Rumble. nothing is announced as of right now, but just kind of keep that in the back of your mind. We're trying to figure out how we can make that one work. Hopefully it can all work out there.

And then the week of, WrestleMania in Las Vegas, we hope to do the same thing there. So fingers crossed. We've tried to do this before and everything has just kind of fallen through and we haven't been able to officially announce it. So I'm not certainly not officially announcing that right now.

out at all. But I'm kind of dropping a little tease there. Also, if you watch my interview with Jonathan Coachman on YouTube, you saw that one of our partners, Morgan and Morgan, is giving away two tickets and $2,000 to the Royal Rumble. So if you want to enter for your chance to win, it's Morgan, W-W-E.com. So Morgan, M-O-R-G-A-N-W-E-com. It takes like, I don't know, 15 seconds to enter, but go check it out. Enter for your chance to win there. And that was our last question on Ask CVV number 50 to the Ray Lewis and C.C. Sabathia edition. Man, if you're still listening right now, you are a real, real one. Anybody who tunes into an Ask CVV episode, you're a real one. But anyone who tunes into an Ask CVV episode and listens all the way until the very end like this, you're a real, real one. So if you're listening, on Spotify, drop real, real one in the comments.

So I know who's with me on this. Who's a real, real one? Got a big week lined up next week for the show. And just, man, I just can't thank you enough. It's October of 2024. And this year has been bigger than I could have ever possibly imagined. And it just keeps getting bigger month after month after month. We got the WWE Hall of Famer, the Godfather,

joining us on Tuesday and then we've got the return of Carrying Cross on Thursday, probably going to hear a little Jesse Ventura in there as well, but you'll also hear the behind the scenes story, the full story of how that meeting of Carrying Cross and Jesse Ventura came together and how Carrying Cross did his Jesse Ventura impression for Jesse Ventura. Wild. And we've got to ask CVV number 53 on Friday. we'll wrap this one up with a quote from Greg Popovich, the great coach, Greg Popovich.

The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn't go our way. It's easy when stuff's going our way. It's easy when it's easy. But the true measure of a man is how you react when things get difficult. Be great. Be grateful, my friends. Have an amazing weekend. We will see you on the next one for some more insight.

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