Insight with Chris Van Vliet - AskCVV #57 - First Women's US Champ, Roman Reigns Turns Face, Best Physique In Wrestling, Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson

Episode Date: November 15, 2024

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Chris. Oh man. Welcome back to another one here on Insight. I'm CVV, Chris Van Fleet. Thanks for being with us on this Friday. And thank you, as always, for helping to make Insight the number one wrestling podcast on planet Earth. Hit a swanton bomb on that follow button on Apple Podcasts or Spotify,

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And it helps the show so, so much. We're at 5,700 ratings right now. I set this silly random goal of 7,500 by the end of the year. And I know we can do it. I know we could probably be at 6,000 by the end of the weekend, but it's all up to you. So I will leave that in your hands. Hope it's been a great week for you. I've been all over the place in the last two weeks.

Man, it was Vegas. Then it was back to Vegas. Then it was Austin. That it was in Dallas on Monday for like, six hours. I'll actually talk about that in a little bit here, but it's been amazing. And I would not trade any of this for anything at all. Oh, by the way, you hear the intro change at the start of the show there. Justin Roberts back as the person saying my name at the start of the show. I don't know if that's permanent or not. We talked about this a few weeks ago when Samantha Irvin announced

that she was leaving WWE. We have intros from Samantha. We have intros from Justin. We have an intro from Lillian Garcia, an intro from Greg Hamilton, an intro from Mike Rome. They've all been guests on the show. And it's like, which one do we go with? Do we go with a rotating, like a revolving door?

You never know what you're going to get, like a Forrest Gump reference. Laugh was like a box of chocolates. And that is the actual line, by the way. That is a Mandela effect. People think the line is life. is like a box of chocolates. The actual line is life was like a box of chocolates.

I'm just fascinated by the Mandela effect and all of the things that we believe to be true. And then you look them up and you're like, oh, man, that was completely wrong. And so were all of my friends and relatives in anybody I've ever met. They also quoted it wrong. But I don't know. I think Justin Roberts' classic voice, Lillian Garcia's back. Maybe she has to be the voice. maybe we just mix it up.

I guess stay tuned and we'll see. I'm figuring this out as we go. So I don't know either. But welcome, my friends, to ask CVV number 57, the Ricky Jackson, Johnny Blood McNally, Steve Howe, and the Heinz ketchup edition. Oh yeah, you'll never look at a bottle of Heinz ketchup again without thinking, oh yeah, the number 57's on there.

I didn't even think about that. But I appreciate you guys for being a real one and for listening to the Ask CVV episodes. And if you listen all the way until the very end, that is what makes you a real, real one. Because you're listening to an Ask CVV episode and you listen the whole time, just me, hanging out with you talking this whole time. Wow. When that happens, when you're at the end of the episode, that is what officially knights you as a real, real one.

But appreciate you for being here. for all the questions that you left in the comments on Spotify, all the questions you sent in on social media using the hashtag Ask CVV and all of the questions that you emailed in, CVV at chris vanfleet.com. Tickets are on sale as of today for the Royal Rumble. So now that you know that you're going to the Royal Rumble, you can now buy tickets for the very first ever live podcast episode that I will be hosting the day before the Royal Rumble. Friday, January 31st in Indianapolis, those tickets are on sale at CVVTix.com. CVVTiX.com.

There's only a few VIP tickets left. So if that's something you're interested in, you'll want to jump on that now. It includes a special live version of Ask CVV that is not going to be recorded or put out anywhere. It's just going to be you and me, or I guess I should say me and all of the people who bought VIP tickets. but that's it. It's just going to be for us that are in that room. The VIP ticket also includes a meet and greet after the show. So there's a limited number of those. They've been selling really quick. So if you're interested, jump on those and I can't wait to see you in Indianapolis for that. Or maybe if you're not even going to the Royal Rumble, but you live in and around Indiana or in and

around the Midwest. I would love to see you there. Friday, January 31st at 5 p.m. Helium Comedy Club. it's going to be an absolute blast. Let's kick things off with Michael Oranski on Twitter. He says, Hey, Chris, I saw your tweet about Michael Cole calling it a hospital instead of a local medical facility. We are so back. Does it feel like that to you?

Yeah, I put out that tweet. It was the Chris Pratt Giff where he like looks super shocked, like oh, like so shocked and happy. And I said when you hear Michael Cole call it a hospital instead of a local medical facility. There's been a quite a few little things over the last few weeks, especially, but months as a whole, where it's like, guys, we are back. We are back. We are back. We are back. We'll hangover reference for you. There was something on Smackdown. Michael Cole said, you know, there's whatever the attendance was, 13,505 here inside the Key Bank Center in Buffalo, New York,

that many fans here, that many W.WE fans here? And I was like, wait a second. He called them W.W.E. fans? Forever. They were members of the W.W.E.

universe. So when he was like, there's 13,5005 WVFANS here in Buffalo, New York, I was like, wait a second. Like my ears perked up. I mean, think about Smackdown. Not only did Randy Orton get taken to a hospital

instead of a local medical facility, what put him in the hospital? A pile drive. What was the last time we saw a pile driver? Oh man. So like all these little things adding up, Michael Cole also made a reference after Cody won the championship at WrestleMania 40 where he called it wrestling,

not sports entertainment. He called it wrestling. We're back. All of these Vince isms, all of these words that were on the do not say list from Vince have very clearly been crossed out. And it just feels like we're back in a. a world or anything goes. And that seems to apply in the ring, but it also applies on in the commentary.

It also applies on the mic. And it's exciting. And it's, it's so exciting. And to quote my friend Sam Roberts, who was on the show recently, one of his rules of wrestling is in this era, anything goes. And everything counts. That's specifically what he said, that everything counts. And it's true. And I appreciate that because is we've lived in a time, well, we've lived in wrestling up until now where something would happen on social media or something would happen on like a late night talk show or something that could fuel a storyline or could propel something forward and it doesn't get mentioned. And they just kind of act like, oh yeah, well, that happened. But we're not going to talk about that thing happening because it didn't exist within

this multiverse here. So that's just kind of on a lot of. its own just in a silo over there. We are back. And I think there's been a lot of these little things along the way. I don't think we're going to see pile drivers in every match. I don't think we're going to see blading. There's another one, right? Being able to bleed in matches purposely. Like there was a point. What was it? Eight-ish years, 10-ish years ago where if someone bled in a match, the referee like immediately put gloves on like they were super scared, like ran and put gloves on, oh my gosh, and then they grabbed the towel and just like blotted the person's head,

like to stop the bleeding as quickly as possible to make sure that like they weren't bleeding in the match, that's gone. That is out the window. So it's exciting. And I think that all of these little things are leading up to what Raw is going to look like on Netflix when that ends up happening here on January 6th. And from what I've heard, this isn't public. Maybe I shouldn't even be. Maybe I shouldn't even be saying this. From what I've heard, the very first episode of Monday Night Raw on Netflix is not too far away from where I live, and it's in Los Angeles. I don't know if that's public. I don't know if I should say that. I don't know if that's just a rumor I saw or heard somewhere, but if that's the case, I'm going. And if you're going, I will see you there. But

there's a lot of really interesting things here with all of these little pieces in play for what wrestling on a Monday night could look like when the shackles are off completely, when there are no restrictions, when this is one of the biggest things I've been talking about with raw Netflix is when you don't have to get to a commercial break by a certain minute and second time. Like, that's usually how it works. Like, when you look at the rundown of a TV show, a live TV show, it's like you're going to be taking a break at the, we'll use East Coast time here, for example. You're taking a break at 8, 1830. So exactly 8, 18 and a half.

That's when you're going to break no matter what. Like, they're counting down in your ear, like going to break in 30, going to break in 15, going to break in 10, 9, 8. Like, that's how it works. and when they're on Netflix, there's really no need to take a break. There will be breaks. There will be breaks to like reset the ring or if there's blood on the canvas

to change out the canvas or switch things over when you're going from a match to setting up for something like Ms. TV, for example. There will be breaks for that type of stuff and maybe they'll just play like promotional stuff during that time. But I just feel like all of this is planting seeds for what,

things could look like. And man, I'm pumped. Justin Carlton on Facebook says, who do you have for Friday's big fight? Tyson or Paul? Well, speaking of Netflix, this fight is free on Netflix tonight as you are listening to this right now. And since it's free on Netflix, a lot of people have Netflix. This is going to be watched by a lot of people, whether you like boxing or not. it's free. A lot of people have Netflix. A lot of people, even if they don't have their own Netflix account, they have their cousin or their aunts log in for it. And it's going to be really interesting. This is an event. And this is going to be something kind of like the rosa Tom Brady, or even if you're not a Tom Brady fan, or you're not a Patriots fan or a Buccaneers fan, or

even a comedy fan, a lot of people tuned into that because it was a live event. And it was also plastered all over the home screen. of Netflix for like three weeks. I fully understand. There are a lot of people who feel a certain way about Jake Paul. He gets that. He clearly understands that. He leans into it like a heel.

And that's kind of the beauty of his fights because a lot of people tune in with the hope that he's going to get knocked out. But you know what? They still tune in. And that's the whole idea behind pro wrestling, really. like whether they love you or they hate you, they feel something. And that seems to be the case with Jake Paul. A lot of people that don't like him. A lot of people that are tuning in hoping he's going to get his lights knocked out. I put a poll up on YouTube, also on Instagram, asking who you

think it'll win or who you think's going to win this. And it was resoundingly Mike Tyson. Like 85% of people said Mike Tyson's going to win. And I think partially it's because people want to see him win. And it's also, he's iron Mike Tyson. He's the baddest man on the planet. Like, how could he possibly lose? But I also think there's a lot of people that don't want to admit that Jake could possibly beat him. I mean, this is Mike Tyson, not in his prime. This is Mike Tyson at 58 years old. This is also Mike Tyson's first professional boxing match in 19 years. On the other side of this, you've got Jake Paul, 27 years old. And Jake, Paul, according to boxing legends, boxing experts, people who know way more about the sport

than you or I, they all say Jake Paul is the real deal. The odds at MyBooky have Jake Paul is the favorite. And I think that surprises a lot of people. Jake Paul is the odds on favorite here. And by the way, when you sign up at MyBooky and you use the code CVV, you'll get a 100% welcome bonus. That's pretty nice. Double your money just for using the code CVV when you sign up. up. They also have the over-under at five and a half rounds. So that'll be interesting. I'll be watching. I can't wait for this. If you've been listening to the podcast long enough, you know that I love combat sports. I was at UFC in Anaheim a few months ago. I've been to a bunch of different UFCs. I was at UFC at Rogers Center when Randy Couture retired. I saw George St. Pierre fight there.

It was amazing. I go to every UFL event. UFL's the guy who, who's the guy who, who's, the guy who founded UFL, my good friend Harrison Rogers. He also founded F3 energy drinks, which is a sponsor of the show. So I go to UFL all the time. I love combat sports. But if we look at this and to answer your question, Justin, who do I have here? This is kind of a lose-lose situation for Jake Paul if you really think about it. Because if he wins, he beat a 58-year-old man who hasn't fought professionally in 19 years. Okay, big deal. If he loses, well, he lost to a 58-year-old man who hasn't professionally fought in 19 years. It's like, I don't see how Jake Paul can come out on top here. And then he will continue to be up against the criticism of, well, you need to fight a real

boxer. Or, okay, well, when you're fighting Mike Tyson, one of the grace of all the time, you need to fight someone who's around the same age as you. And like, he's always going to be up against this criticism. I get it. If I had to pick someone, I would take Jake Paul in this fight for a lot of the reasons that we've already talked about here, but it's going to be entertaining. I do not think this is a fixed fight. I know that's a narrative that goes on for every single Jake Paul fight, whether he's fighting Mike Tyson or he's fighting Tyron Woodley or he's fighting Tommy Fury, whoever it happens to be. I don't think these fights are fixed. Because that's a federal offense. to fix the outcome of a boxing match.

I don't think that's it. Like, Jake Paul can fight. Jake Paul can box. Is he world championship level? No, obviously not. His goal is to be at that level at some point. And I guess time will tell if he actually gets there or not. But I don't think these are fake fights.

And I think that anybody who's saying that just like can't appreciate that maybe Jake Paul has put in a lot of work here to be good enough to ask. actually beat some of these people. But I'm really curious how this all shakes out. I take Jake Paul in this fight. Five and a half rounds, I guess I would take the over here. I think maybe it'll, yeah, I think probably over. But I really think it's going to be Jake Paul.

But we will see. It's going to be a lot of people listening to this episode on Saturday or Sunday going, man, either CVV, you nailed it. You were absolutely right. Or are you going to be listening to this going, man, you got that completely wrong, completely wrong. As I'm saying all this out of the corner of my eyes, I sit here in my office, I have, I forgot that I just recently hung this up. I have a Mike Tyson autograph on my wall. And he signed a screenshot from Mike Tyson's punchout. And then below that,

there's an original NES Nintendo controller that's framed. So I just thought it was kind of cool that here we are talking about Mike Tyson fighting. And I'm looking over here and there's Mike Tyson's autograph with Mario, the referee, Super Mario, putting his arm up saying, TKO. Jay Andre's 0821 on Spotify says, hey, Chris, love the podcast. The women's U.S. title just got revealed. Who do you think will be the first ever champion? Yeah, this is something we've been talking about for a while, right?

When's that mid-card title going to come around? well, Nick Aldous just announced it. Nick Aldous, the next guest on the show, by the way. He's going to be a guest on the show on Tuesday. We recorded that a few weeks ago in Brooklyn. I think that Chelsea Green is perfect for that spot. I think that Chelsea Green going in there and just owning that mid-card title and owning just that position on the card just makes a lot of sense.

So she would be my first pick for who the champion would be. Although that would be kind of ironic if the first ever United States women's champion was a Canadian. So maybe that might be the caveat here. That might be one of the reasons they don't give it to her. But if it's not Chelsea Green, I could see Raquel Rodriguez just getting that and just being totally dominant as the U.S. women's champion. Those would be my first two picks. I'll give you kind of like a dark horse pick here. and it's not that she's not deserving at all,

but she's kind of been more in that like title picture for a while here is Bailey. Because if Bailey wins, I mean, I think that Bailey does end up becoming the U.S. champion at some point in time. I don't know if she's the first one, but I think that, yeah,

of course she's going to win this at some point in time. If slash when Bailey wins the women's U.S. championship, that makes for the first ever women's Grand Slam champion. And I think that she's the perfect person to make that history. So I don't think Bailey's the first one, but I just kind of wanted to point that out that when that does happen, maybe Bailey's the second or third or fourth, whatever it happens to be. But she makes history when that happens.

So I'm excited to see what happens there. And I'm just excited to see, like, the women's division is stacked. So I'm really excited to see what. they end up doing with this. How long are the title reigns? Because I could see this being a thing where the title changes hands. I don't know, like forwarded six times a year. Like really get some people in the mix there. Like really get a lot of people to shine with this championship. But really curious to see how this all ends up playing out. Ben on Twitter, he's at largely speaking, says Chris Van Fleet, everyone has said in the past that L.A. Knight, yeah.

He even wrote that sounds like the rock. Listening to the theory interview, I swear he sounds just like Christian. Please say it's not just me. Well, I want to point out that I wasn't the one who ever said that L.A. Knight sounded like the rock. It was L.A. Knight who pointed this out when he was Eli Drake and we did an interview in 2019. I just want to point that out. It's because Eli Drake pointed that out when he was on that reality show with The Rock, The Hero. he pointed that out during our interview.

That got clipped a bunch of different times and shared all over social media. That's the genesis of this. And I think people probably could have put two and two together. But I don't know if anybody was looking at Eli Drake in like 2017 or 2018 and going, oh, yeah, sounds just like the rock. I mean, there might have been some people. But I think it was that moment in our interview. It was just a throwaway comment, he said, too.

And that has been picking on a life of its own. Theory sounds like Christian. That might just be you, Ben. I don't think I hear that. But you know which one I do here? Carrying Cross sounds just like Edge. Like when you listen to just the podcast version of my episodes with Carrying Cross,

that's Adam Copeland. That's Edge. And it's funny. It's so funny. Carrying Cross gets it all the time. And he's mentioned this to me. He hears it all the time. I said it to Edge when he was driving me from our interview back to my hotel in Asheville.

I said, you ever heard that? You ever heard that people think that Karen Cross sounds like you? He was like, huh, no, never heard that. But man, that guy does a great Jesse Ventura impression. I'm like, that was during our interview. That's so funny that, like, worlds are colliding here. So theory sounding like Christian, I don't know. That's not something I've heard.

Maybe I'll have to listen a little bit more closely for that. Michael is a mark on Instagram. Hey, CVV, I saw your post on Instagram that you flew to Dallas this week for a big guest. If I guess it right, will you tell me? Was it Stone Cold Steve Austin? Michael is a Mark? It was not Stone Cold Steve Austin. I saw a lot of people guessing Stone Cold Steve Austin.

A lot of people guessing Stone Cold Steve Austin. I took a picture out the plane window, and I said it was heading to Dallas for the afternoon for a big guest. A lot of people guessed Stone Cold. Stone Cold lives in Nevada. I don't know if that's something people realize. He's been in Nevada for quite a few years now. So it was not Stone Cold.

That is still someone I would love to get. He is very close to the top of my wish list of people that I would love to have on the show. But it was not stone cold. It was, first of all, what a day. This was Monday of this week. I took a 6.45 a.m. flight out of the Orange County Airport, Santa Ana, California. Flew to Dallas. You lose two hours doing that. You go from Pacific time to central time. So I landed in Dallas at about noon. Waited for my bag. I now check a bag. And I've never been a bag check person ever. But now, I travel with so much gear. Travel with lights, tripods, mic stands, mics, cameras, all of that stuff. That all travels now in a checked bag. All of the not so important stuff. I carry on the cameras and

the microphones, but all of the not so important stuff. Like, you know, if they lose my luggage and I lose a few tripods, yeah, that sucks big time. But it's not as bad as if they lose your luggage and you have three cameras that go missing. And that would hurt a lot. So I waited for my bag. Got my bag. Someone that was also grabbing bags like, hey, CVV. Hey, man.

Oh, I watch your stuff all the time. Are you here for the Jake Paul fight? And I was like, oh, yeah. That is this week. That is in Dallas. And I was like, oh, no. I'm actually here for just a handful of hours. So that was noon when I got off the flight, waited for my bag, got an Uber.

Took the Uber north of the city to Frisco. I got a hotel room there. I mean, you get it for the night, but I really only needed it for a handful of hours. They're probably looking at me going, huh, the guy just checked in a few hours ago. And now he's checking in a few hours later. What was he doing up there?

But got into the hotel. Set everything up in my room, randomly got a text for my buddy, Chris Santiago, who I've been good friends with since I lived in my me. And he's like, hey, man, I saw that you're going to be in Dallas. I'm also going to be in Dallas. Could we hang out? You want to grab a beer? You want to grab lunch? And I'm like, David, I'm here just for a few hours for this one big interview. But Chris shoots a lot of content. He's an amazing photographer. I was like, well, do you want to hang out and maybe snap some photos

behind the scenes of this big guest? And he's like, oh, amazing. He came over, helped me set up the room, set up the chairs, set up the mics, set up the cameras for this interview. the interview happened. It was, we planned for about an hour. That's kind of the time frame we looked for for these interviews. We recorded for an hour

and 34 minutes, which is going to be amazing. So did the interview, said goodbye, packed everything back up, took an Uber back to the airport. Flight was at 6 p.m. Central time. Got on that,

flew back home. You gained two hours or I guess lose two hours, however you want to look at that from central time back to Pacific time, landed back at Orange County Airport around eight-ish Pacific time, waited for my bag, got my bag, jumped in the pickup truck, and went home, got home at about 9 p.m. So door to door, left the house at 4.45 a.m.

Got home at 9 p.m. It's a long day for a 94-minute interview, but so grateful for the opportunity. And this is something I would do every single day if I was given the opportunity for a big interview. Like if someone said so-and-so is available, you're going to have to be able to fly in and out of whatever city it is to do it. Sure, absolutely.

I'll do that every single time. But I just thought it was interesting to point out all of the stuff that goes into this because so often when you hit play on a podcast or you hit play on a YouTube video, you don't realize everything that goes into it. And I don't just mean the timing of all of this and the scheduling and flights in ubers and all of that stuff. Sometimes it's getting hotel rooms or sometimes it's renting out of studio. There's also all of the video editing that goes on here. There's all of the clips and all of the shorts. A lot of people, maybe yourself included, have found the podcast because of the vertical

videos on Instagram or Facebook or YouTube shorts or TikTok. All of the work that Troy Blair, my shorts, editor puts into finding all the perfect B-roll to match exactly what's being talked about. There's Donald, who's the audio engineer, who's actually listening to my voice right now as he's doing all of his magic behind the scenes to make this sound as good as possible. There's so many different elements, the graphics that go into both the podcast graphics and the thumbnails. I just think that I'm the most lucky and grateful person in the world to be able to do this. and I just wanted to point out there's a lot of other things at play here that go into making

some of these interviews happen. I've told stories before in the past, but like the interview that I did with Chris Jericho right after he signed with AEW in January of 2019. I drove like a total of 10 hours for a 20 minute interview, like five hours to where the interview was, five hours back editing the interview in the car as my buddy Daniel drove my car that I was in the passenger your seat editing on my laptop till it died then we stopped at a service station to plug the laptop back in to finish the edit like there's so many of these crazy things that go on and i just think it's fun sometimes to point that kind of stuff out wesley barry emailed this one in hi chris would you be on board for a gm versus gm match at survivor series with adam pierce versus nick aldus and could you

see it possibly stealing the show love your podcast west from west virginia west i would love to see that match, and especially when you consider the history of both of these men. They're both former NWA World's Heavyweight Champions. Nick Aldous, a former TNA World Heavyweight champion as well, like massive pedigree for both of these guys. Adam Pierce has made it pretty clear to me that he's just happy in the role that he's in right now, that his wrestling career was what it was, and he's happy to be able to say that that's behind him and he's doing what he's doing now. Nick Aldus is kind of a on the other end of this. And when you listen to the interview that comes out on Tuesday,

I said, are you at peace with your wrestling career ending the way that it did? And he's like, I'm being honest, no, like, I still want to lace him up. So Nick Aldus still wants to wrestle. And this doesn't, this isn't just like one more match. Like Nick Aldous doesn't just want one more match like to just go out there and like call it a career. Like Nick Aldus, he's only 37, right? now he's 38. Nick Aldous is only 38, but he can still go. He can still go. So while I would love to see that match, I don't feel like that one's ever going to happen.

There'll be moments, I think, where Adam Pierce gets physical, but it doesn't sound like he wants to have another match again. And he's okay not having another match is what I should say. I think Nick Aldous does want to have that match. So I don't think it's ever going to be GM versus GM, although we can fantasy book that. It's a fun match to talk about, especially. especially with the history that both of those men have inside the ring on their own. And I mean, there's just, there's a lot of possibilities here with Nick Aldus. Nick Aldous has a long history with Cody Rhodes.

And I think that that could end up being something if that's a path they want to go down. But I mean, we're two weeks away from Survivor Series. This isn't a match that's going to happen. Unfortunately, I would love to see that happen at some point in time. I think there'll be a moment somewhere. I don't know when this is going to happen, but there'll be a moment in time somewhere where, like, Adam Pierce and Nick Aldous are in the same place at the same time,

and things get a little bit out of hand, things get a little bit hairy, and you'll see a look in both of their eyes. And maybe this is happening in the ring and, like, Nick Aldus is holding back his Smackdown people, and Adam Pierce is holding back his raw people, people and things break loose. And then there'll be a moment. I think in the middle of the ring where Nick Aldous and Adam Pierce kind of look at each other. And the fans who know will know

and there'll be like a rumbling right of, oh my gosh, is this going to happen? And I don't think they'll ever be like a real payoff of that, but I think it's just kind of like a wink to the people who do know, like to the true wrestling fans who have been watching for a long time of like, oh man, you know what both of these guys are capable of, could this boil over now? Could this be the time? I don't think we end up seeing a match between them, but I think Nick Aldous wrestles not just one more match. I think he has another run at some point in time. Tommy emailed this one in. Hey, Chris, Russellmania is known as a number one event in WWE. That said, my question to you is between the Royal Rumble and SummerSlam, which is ranked number two. Not which one do you like more than the other,

but which one is ultimately more important to WWE and its wrestlers. Even though SummerSlam is known as the biggest party of the summer, I personally always ranked the Royal Rumble second. I mean, it's kind of known as the road to WrestleMania for a reason. What are your thoughts?

Love the podcast. You are my podcast, tribal chief, number one over not Sam wrestling, who is a close number two. Ooh, sorry, Sam. Best regards, Tommy. Yeah, Sam Roberts has been calling himself the PTC.

the podcast tribal chief. I don't know, maybe Sam and I need to have a match to figure out who is the true PTC, get your ones up in the air, right? I think for me, the Royal Rumble is the number two PLE, the number two paper view,

whatever you want to call it. Because when you think about stats, like if you zoom out just a little bit and you look at stats, people talk about how many times someone want a Royal Rumble. You know, they're a two-time Royal Rumble winner. They're a three-time Royal Rumble winner.

They're a back-to-back Royal Rumble winner. You don't get those stats with SummerSlam. Like, there's great matches that happen at SummerSlam, but no one's going, oh, man, he's won two different SummerSlam matches. He wins all the time at SummerSlam. Yeah, we've said things like that. But the Royal Rumble really puts us into WrestleMania season. And you're right.

the road to WrestleMania is a thing. And from the Royal Rumble, which this year is February 1st in Indianapolis, from that all the way until when WrestleMania is your entire focus is what are the WrestleMania implications here? What does this mean? What does this win mean or this loss mean for WrestleMania? Does this build to a story that ends up culminating at WrestleMania? So I love SummerSlam.

Summer is my favorite season. We've talked about this before. Summer's my favorite season. I'm a big fan of SummerSlam, but I don't even think it's, it's not even number three for me personally. And I know this, I just think that the Royal Rumble,

there's just implications there. For whoever the man and whoever the woman is, who wins their respective Royal Rumbles, that has the possibility to just change things completely for them and for their their career. So I go, I go Royal Rumble here for sure. I've been to a few of them. I've been to three of them. Have I been to, I have been to three of them. Wow. I went in 2016, Orlando. We were surprised by the debut of AJ Styles. I went in 2019, Chase Field, Phoenix, Arizona.

I went earlier this year, Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida, and I will be there in Indianapolis. Of course, got to be in Indianapolis because we got the live episode of Insight the day before. So, man, I'm going to see all you guys there. It's crazy. Jack Bello wrote this one in on Spotify.

He says, hey, CVV, you are my favorite wrestling podcast by far. I feel like every time I, get to listen to your show. It's like I'm sitting talking wrestling with a friend. My question is, have you noticed Roman Raines hasn't opened up the segment by using the saying city name? Acknowledge me. Please fact check me on this, but I don't think he has. Do you think there's a reason?

I wonder if your friend Sam Roberts has caught this as well. Thanks for the best podcast in wrestling. Another Sam Roberts reference, two questions in a row. Jack, I think quite simply, Roman Raines is towing a very fine line right now of being a baby face. I mean, he's doing baby face things. He is siding with other baby faces.

He's not officially, like, put his foot down and said, like, I'm a baby face, like, but he's definitely, like, doing a lot of real baby face things. And I would think, this is just a guess, but I would think that if he were to come out and say, Toronto acknowledge me then he's going to get a big pop

a huge crowd reaction of cheers and I don't think that they're ready for that quite yet or maybe along the same lines maybe that was his heel catchphrase and now that he's a baby face he's going to figure out something else here but the whole point of the acknowledge me thing

was to get like that heat right off the start of the promo like booze right off the top that would then carry through the rest of the segment. And I think now, if he says, acknowledge me, they're going to get the opposite reaction of that, which may end up being a thing. When he, you know, I think the Survivor Series is going to be a real pivotal moment for him.

I think that that's like when he officially becomes like, yeah, he's baby face again. Although, I don't know where then things go with Cody and Roman. Maybe that's the Cody. He'll turn at some point. I don't know. I do think. and we'll talk more Survivor Series as we get a little bit closer to Survivor Series, but I think Paul Heyman plays a really big role in what ends up happening at Survivor Series.

But I just think he hasn't been saying this for that exact reason. That was what he said as a heel to get some heat, and he's not trying to get heat right now. Richard Metapot, M-E-P-O-T-T-M-T-P-P-T-P-P-P-P-T. He sent this one in and said, Just listening to the Grayson Waller episode and both of you mentioned the first hour of WCW Nitro. So a question for Ask CVV, who is your Mount Rushmore of WCW Cruiserweights? Hope you were doing well.

And if you do ask this question, can you please give a shout out to my friend and longtime CVV listener, Ian Simpson? And if you could mention ease up Shire so he knows it's for him. Thank you, Richard. Well, there you go, Ian Simpson. Appreciate you, Ian and you, Richard, for listening to the show. We specifically talked about that first hour of Nitro. It was like 8 o'clock to 9 o'clock Eastern time when it was just filled with cruiser weights.

But when you look at the cruiserweight division in the years before that, man, there were so many legends in there. So, all right. Now Rushmore's are always so hard because you give your own opinion of your personal for people. And then everybody goes, what about so and so, what about so and so? And it's like, well, these are the four that I personally picked because that's how Mount Rushmore's work. These are my top four people. So we got to go Ray Mysterio, of course. I mean, greatest luchador of all time.

I think you can make a real strong case that is the greatest cruiserweight of all time. Most cruiserweight championship wins in WCW with eight. So Ray Mysterio, boom, he's on it. Shane Helms had the longest rain as the WCW Cruiserweight champion a little over a year, 385 days. Shane Helms and all of the innovative things that he did

go back and watch some old Shane Helms WCW matches. Like you probably know him as the hurricane and he will likely go into the Hall of Fame because of a lot of the work that he did as the hurricane and all the stuff he's doing behind the scenes now as well. Just crushing it as a producer behind the scenes. But go back and just watch some of the innovative ways that it gets into moves and the way that he sets things up. Like, I remember the first

time I saw the Vertebreaker and I'm like, oh my gosh, he just murdered this person. So Shane Helms, Billy Kidman, and then you always get to this tough spot where it's like, ah, I only have room for one more. So I'm going to cheat. I'm going to throw a whole bunch of people in this fourth spot because you've got kind of two eras of cruiser weights. You've got like the cruiser weights up to like 99 where there's like Jericho's in the mix, Dean Malenko's in the mix, Xbox when he was six, he's in the mix. And then those guys kind of moved on to be a little bit higher up on the card. And then by the time, W.C. was still around.

But by the time that they were doing the first hour on Nitro, a lot of the, those people had gone to WWF, WWF at the time. So cruiserweight, like first hour of cruiserweight, first hour of Nitro with the cruiser weights also had like Huventoo Guerrera and Evan courageous. And man, it's just, I think, I mean, all the members of three count, really, well, not including Tank Abbott for the time that he spent in Shannon Moore. And of course, we already mentioned Shane Helms.

So I'm going to cheat and just throw a lot. all those people in as like, yeah, the cruiser weights in WCW were badass. You can even throw Chris Benoit in there. I don't think Chris Benoit ever won the WCW Cruiserweight Championship, but he had some great matches in there. Paul is good 414 on Twitter. Hey, CVV, I loved your breakdown on last week's Ask CVV about John Cena winning its 17th championship.

But don't you think it would be a huge missed opportunity if he does. doesn't become a Grand Slam champion. I've seen so many people talk about this. John Sina needs to win the Intercontinental Championship. At some point in 2025, he needs to become a Grand Slam champion. And to that, I say, why does he need it? Like, that doesn't add anything more to his career. It's a nice feather in the cap, sure, to be able to say, yeah, he's a Grand Slam champion.

But then there's other people that are like, I can't believe he never won the Intercontinental Championship. Well, think about this. Like, Brock Lesnar also never won the Intercontinental Championship. Brock Lesnar also never won the United States Championship. Brock Lesnar also has never been a tag team champion. Brock Lesnar has won one kind of championship and one kind of championship only. He's only won world titles.

Ten of them, to be exact. But you would never look at Brock Lesnar's career and go, oh, man. If only he was a Grand Slam champion, oh, man, that'd be so much better. Oh, man, you'd never look at a career like that and go, oh, he'd be a Hall of Famer if he won that Intercontinental Championship. I think that if John Cena does win the Intercontinental Championship in 2025, it would be part of a story that made a ton of sense. I don't think they're going to give it to him just for the sake of the fact that he's never won it before.

I truly think the focus will be three-pronged for John Cena in his final year, in this retirement tour. The three prongs are going to be this. What's the story that sets up him winning and then also ultimately losing the, I think the World Heavyweight Championship, but we'll just call it World Championship number 17. So what's that story? Number two, what's the story that revolves around his WrestleMania opponent?

And then number three, who is the final opponent? I think those are the three prongs. And there'll be some other little fun stories and matches mixed in. But I think those are the three main focuses of what we're going to be seeing with his final run. He just announced this week that he is an official entrant in the 2025 Royal Rumble. I don't think he wins it. I'm going to put this out there right now. And I know there's a lot of time here between now and then two and a half months, to be exact.

I don't think he wins it. I think he's a final four, maybe final three. but I don't think he wins it. I don't know. I'm not basing this on any sort of fact or any sort of knowledge that I have. I just think it's, it's going to be someone else like

that you're going to go. Yeah, of course they want it. Like it's going to be an obvious choice. It's going to be, if I had to right now pick, I would say it's going to be Roman, Rock, or John Cena. I don't,

I don't think John Cena wins the Royal Rumble, simply because just like the, Intercontinental Championship, I don't think he needs it. I really don't. I think there's an opportunity here to tell a much larger story without John Cena winning either the Intercontinental Championship or winning the Royal Rumble. As we get a little bit closer to February 1st when the Royal Rumble is, I think we'll have a much clearer picture. And that's kind of how it always is, right? Every time we head

into the Royal Rumble, it's always like, oh, yeah, it's going to be one of these three people. And then people are like, what about this dark horse? What about this person? Wouldn't it be great if so-and-so won? Yeah, yeah, nice idea. Good to talk about. But you always go into that Royal Rumble match going, yeah, I think we know it's either like this person or this person with the possibility of like this other person here.

Brian 19 Ibara on Instagram says, hey, Chris, you've interviewed countless high-profile celebrities and wrestlers. Can you share a moment from an interview that profoundly changed. your perspective or gave you new insights into your own life or career. Blessings from my family to yours. I have said this so many times. So if you've heard it before, you can just fast forward the next 30 seconds or so. But I know there's probably someone out there who needs to hear this.

Control the controllable. When John Cena said that to me in our interview right before a WrestleMania 35, I had never heard it before. And it's the most simplistic, basic way of saying it. But I just, I'd never heard it before. Control and controllable. You don't have control over what other people say. You don't have control over what people do.

Don't spend your time trying to figure all that stuff out. Control what you can control, which is how you react to what other people say and how you react to the things that other people do. that for me will be one of the quotes that I will remember for the rest of my life. And it's so simple, right? It's three simple words, control the control. And I was very grateful earlier this year when I had that interview with John Cena where I was able to like thank him for that. I don't even think he realized the power of those words when he was saying them in that interview.

But it meant a lot to me. And that's been something that I just, I think about all the time. So control the controllable. Connor Wolf Flanagan. This is Flanagan C23 on Instagram. Ask CVV. What do you think will be the women's war games match? None of the storylines seem quite heated up enough for it currently.

I completely agree with you. And this is one of the reasons I don't love the Survivor Series set up. I don't love the idea of having a Survivor Series style match just for the sake of having it. And so many years previously, it's just been like, let's take these five random people on SmackDown and put them against these five random people on Raw because we have to prove which brand is better. Is it the blue brand or is it the red brand? And that's why like if the Survivor Series style match went away, I wouldn't be upset at all. Because I don't like the idea of just putting a match together just because, well, it's that time of year again. let's just throw these 10 people into a match.

Here you go. Enjoy. So I don't know. We're two weeks away. We're two weeks away from Survivor Series. And there's really, it's not even an inkling here. It's not even like these two people on this side and these two people on this side, like, okay, they're going to build teams together and make this thing happen.

I don't know. I really, I don't know. And I think that Survivor Series matches work when it helps to propel another storyline, which is what we're seeing right now with the bloodline, new bloodline versus old bloodline, and this thing has been building for months. That one makes sense. But we talked about this when it came, when Helen Assal came around. And we had the match with CM Punk and Drew McIntyre.

It's like, they're having a hell and a cell match not just because it's, well, it's that time of year again. We have that PLE named Hell in a Cell, so who are we going to stick in there? I've never been a fan of that. I like when, like, there's no other possible match that can end this feud except for hell. And then you have to do it. And that's exactly what we saw here. And you get this absolutely brutal match between these two guys and a match that I loved. I can't believe I was there to witness that live.

But that's a match that at the end of the year, are going to be talking about that being one of the best matches of the year. The stuff they did in the ring and the storytelling that was happening there. Yeah, so I'm not a fan of just doing stuff for the sake of doing it. So I don't know, two weeks away from Survivor Series and we don't even have an inkling of what this is going to be. So they better figure this out. And they've got two weeks to not just figure this out.

They've got two weeks to make us care too. So we'll see. We'll see how that ends up being. Sherman Culbertson on this is Facebook. It says, who has the best physique in wrestling today? There's a lot. So I've always been a guy. Like Triple H was my guy.

And I think one of the reasons I love Triple H, not just because he was like this dastardly guy. And I just love the, love the my time entrance theme. That's been talked about at great length. But I just loved the way that he was just, I was so jacked. So jacked. So right now, look at the physique on Buddy Matthews. And there was a photo. I shared it, actually, on Twitter and Facebook and Instagram as well. It was a photo where a fan ran into Buddy and Ria. It looked like a Walmart. And the fan is taking a photo with Ria and Buddy's kind of off to the side holding a shopping basket. And his arms are just absolutely gigantic. So Buddy Matthews. Just what incredible shape that guy is in.

Bobby Lashley. Dude's 48 years old. Crazy. Look at the shape that he's in. And he's been in that shape for his entire career. Drew McIntyre. And when you look at the shape that Drew McIntyre is in now, and you compare that to the shape that he was in when he debuted in, was that,

2007 in WWE, they look like two completely different people. the shape that Roman Reigns has been in since WrestleMania 40 specifically. Like he was always in good shape. But then when he came out, night one at WrestleMania 40, and we hadn't seen him wrestle in a while. So we hadn't seen him without his shirt on for a while. Like he was dialed in to his nutrition and dialed into those workouts.

And like we all kind of like turn like hitting like kind of elbowed each other. Roman Raines has abs. What? Roman Raines has never. never had abs. The shape he was in there, he just looked like a total star. I mean,

he's still in that shape now. Speaking of abs, Finn Ballard? Like, to be in your 40s and to have abs like that, incredible, incredible shape. Also, Brian Cage and Alex Hammerstone.

So there's a bunch of great physiques there. And a different era, right? Because if we were having this conversation in the 90s, you'd be talking about a lot of guys like Ultimate Warrior or Lex Lugar, like those guys that are just like, look like they stepped straight off a bodybuilding stage and into a wrestling ring. A little bit different now. You've got guys that are, yeah, they have some muscles, but they're also like insanely

athletic. Like, would you ever think a guy like Bobby Lashley would be able to do some of the things in the ring that he can do? It's crazy. Michael Schenk on Spotify says, Ask CVV, do you think the fake Brett Hart return during HBK's 2005 promo was one of the greatest heel moves of all time, especially considering it was in Canada? Love your show and keep up the great content sincerely, a real, real one.

I rewatched that segment recently and I just got me so giddy. So to set this up, if you haven't. seen it. This is the August 15th, 2005 episode of Monday Night Raw. They're in Montreal. And Sean Michaels is cutting this like mega heel promo on the Montreal crowd about like, just basically how like he screwed Brett and he makes these memories happen. Like whenever he's in Montreal, something memorable happens. And then he's going on and he's burying the city. He's burying Brett Hart, and he's talking about how, yeah, if Brett Hart was here, I would tell him that to his face that I screwed him. And then out of nowhere, Brett Hart's music hits.

For the first time in eight years, Brett Hart's music hits. And the pop is massive. Like, the reaction is absolutely huge. And what really sells it is the look on Sean Michael's face. Sean Michaels looks like he just saw a ghost. and the camera zooms in to a close-up. And Sean Michaels is like, oh, my gosh, I can't believe Brett Hart's actually here.

This is crazy. Brett Hart is in WWE after the screw job, after all of that, after Vince saying Brett screwed Brett, he's here. And then the music keeps playing and keeps playing. And then it stops. And then Sean Michaels is basically like,

ah, did you really think he was going to be here? You will never see or hear Brett Hart in WWE ever again. And it's just such a great moment. And Sean Michaels has the crowd eating out of the palm of his hand. And the other thing that's so amazing about this is that's one of the loudest reactions in pro wrestling history when Brett Hart's music hits there. And when you really boil it down, it's a reaction for nobody. Like it's literally just for his music playing.

And there's always that funny thing that happens in wrestling where like there's the initial pop of like, oh my gosh, their music is hitting. And then it grows even louder when the person walks out. And I think specifically of Survivor Series last year with CM Punk's music hits. And then when he walks out, it somehow gets even louder. I don't know how that crowd in Montreal could have got any louder. But go back and watch it again. It's one of those very special moments in wrestling where like the crowd just, like, that's what makes wrestling so great is that crowd reaction.

And very clearly, Sean Michaels knew what was going to happen. Just from the first time he mentions Brett, Brett's name and that promo and the reaction that gets to the music hitting, there's been a lot of great heel things that have happened in wrestling. another one that comes to mind that's not a promo but just a very heel-like thing is when big boss man fed Al Snow his dog and made him eat it like in the whole thing that came around with that like that's a heel thing to do like that's also a disgusting thing to do that I don't think we would ever see again in this era of wrestling but that's a that is a that's a yeah

that's disgusting but just in terms of a promo I don't know if you could ever top that one. Shane on Spotify says, Ask CVV number 57, the Mike Merriweather edition. Chris, as a Canadian, who is the greatest Canadian athlete that is not a wrestler?

Well, it's Wayne Gretzky. By a lot. I mean, when you think about, like, he's in that conversation, he's the greatest hockey player of all time. Like, he's in that conversation when people talk about like, Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky.

So, like, yeah, there's been a lot of amazing Canadian athletes that have played a myriad, myriad of different sports. But when you think about someone who's the best of the best and someone who has records that will never be touched, it's Wayne Gretzky. And that's no disrespect to any other Canadian athletes, because I think they would all agree that who is the, who is the, like the very, the very, best, yeah, it's Wayne Gretzky. Easy. Schumannotti. Oh, scumanoidi on Spotify. Who needs more of a singles run? Montes Ford of the Street Profits or Jimmy Uso. Well, Jimmy Uso is part of the hottest

storyline in wrestling right now. And I think that this will end up turning into something else for him. I mean, Jimmy Uso also had a WrestleMania match against Jay Uso. I think it's Montes Ford. And we've seen flashes of greatness for Montes Ford. We've seen what he's capable of, but he needs to break out of the street profits to really be able to showcase his abilities. And the same goes for Angelo Dawkins. Like they both need to be able to break out of just being tag team guys to really showcase what they can do. I mean, they're three-time tag team champions as a street profits. That's great. And that can be what it is, but allow them to go and do their own thing. Montes Ford has all of the tools to be a megastar here. So give him an opportunity.

Give him a run at the United States championship. Give him a run at the intercontinental championship. Even if he doesn't win it, like give him a shot, give him a chance, like allow him to really be able to showcase what he can do. I think elimination chamber last year was like a really, like that was a breakout match for him climbing up on the ceiling, like hang. upside down and then jumping off of there like crazy. And I just think that they had the opportunity there to do more with him and they didn't. So I hope that there's more of a chance as we head in a 2025. But the answer there is Montez Ford.

Josh Garanja, Garanja, left this comment on Spotify. Hey, Chris, longtime listener from Australia. who's the one wrestler slash superstar who's left WWE and has now vastly improved that you'd love to see back full time? For me, I'd love to see Chris Masters back. He's a vastly improved wrestler since his first run. Doing great things in the NWA, even in AEW would be great. Love Chris Masters, such a good dude. Go check out the workout video that I did with him.

We did a workout video at the iconic Gold's Gym in Venice Beach, California. we did arms, he destroyed my arms, love Chris Masters. And this version of Chris Masters or Chris Adonis is so different from what the masterpiece was in the mid-2000s. That's one I agree with. But the obvious answer to this question is Matt Cardona. What Matt Cardona has done since he was released from WWE four and a half years ago, it's been incredible.

And nobody has done what he's done in the end. independent level at all. Matt Cardona is so vastly different from what Zach Ryder was in WWE. So the obvious answer there is Matt Cardona. He is so deserving of a run as Matt Cardona in WWE. And I hope that he gets the chance to be able to showcase everything that he's capable of. He's such, he's a mega heel. It's a guy that you just love to boo. I saw a video that he posted on social media recently. And he's like, if he goes to a new city or a new promotion, his music hits, fans immediately cheer because it's like, oh my gosh, he's the guy from WWE and like, I want to see him.

Or maybe he's the person I bought a ticket to specifically see. He talks about how he gets on the mic immediately to turn those cheers into booze. Like he immediately cuts a promo of like on the crowd to make them immediately hate him. And I love that. another answer here is JTG. If you see what JTG looks like now, I think you barely recognize him as the guy from Crime Time. Looks like a totally different guy.

He is jacked beyond belief. His arms are like the size of my head. It's crazy. His arms are ginormous. I would love to see JTG be given a shot as a singles guy because I think that people only thought about him as the guy from Crime Time with Shats. May God rest his soul.

I think that what JTG has done over the last five-ish years on his own, he's broken out and he's doing his own thing. And I would love to see him have a chance to be a single star back in WWE. And that, my friends, that is the final question here on Ask CVV number 57, the Ricky Jackson, Johnny Blood McNally, Steve Howe, and Heinz ketchup edition. grab those tickets for the first ever live insight happening in Indianapolis, January 31st, CVVTix.com. You won't want to miss this. We're planning on doing a few of them. We're planning on doing one hopefully around Elimination Chamber in Toronto. I feel like it would be a homecoming to be able to host a show there in Toronto. I would love that. Be back home in Toronto doing something with you guys. We're also planning to do one the Wednesday before WrestleMania in Las Vegas.

So if you're going to Las Vegas for for mania and you haven't booked your tickets yet, by that I mean your flight. If you haven't booked your hotel yet, plan to be there on Wednesday. We'll be announcing that as we get a little bit closer, but we're planning to do a handful of these.

So keep an eye out for all of those announcements, but I appreciate you guys for being with us and for being a real, real one and for listening all the way until the very end like this, if you're listening on Spotify, drop a comment of your favorite pizza topping. So I know that you're a real, real one,

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