Insight with Chris Van Vliet - AskCVV #80 - WrestleMania 41 Review, John Cena Wins #17, Joe Hendry Appears But The Rock Doesn't

Episode Date: April 25, 2025

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Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Fleet. Happy Friday and welcome back to another one here on Inside. I'm CVV. Chris Van Fleet, hope it's been a great week for you. Thank you for being here with us on this one. And thank you for making Insight the number one wrestling podcast on the entire planet. Hit a curb stomp on that follow button wherever you're listening right now.

and I'm hoping, if you're listening on Spotify, I'm hoping you might have a few free seconds to leave a rating on there. Those ratings help so, so much. And look, after all, you are a real one. You're listening to an Ask CVV episode, so I would hope that maybe you have a few seconds to do that. And I'll see you in about an hour if you are a real, real one. I am in Indianapolis right now for Squared Circle Expo. It's both today, Friday, and also Saturday. lineup is insane. Like everybody who's appearing, I'm just going to list a few of them,

but the list is massive. Kurt Engel, Brett Hart, Bobby Lashley, Joe Hendry, JBL, Jim Ross, Jerry the King Lawler, Danhausen, Lex Lugar, Matt Hardy, Rikishi, Tori Wilson, Xbox, and many, many, many more. It's a huge list. So if you live in the Midwest, if you live in Indiana or somewhere that's drivable, I can't wait to see you this weekend at Squared Circle Expo. But what a week this has been. What a week. We have so much to break down from WrestleMania and then raw after WrestleMania. And of course, Insight Live last Thursday with our truth. I have to come clean about something. I've a little secret I've been keeping from you guys. So I figured I couldn't go eight days without talking about that live show. But if you

listened to last week's Ask CVV number 79. I was talking about, oh, man, what a great show we had. Our truth is hilarious. The crowd was amazing. These were all true statements, but I had actually recorded the episode before the live episode with Our Truth at Circa Resort and Casino. I mean, so we recorded that. We did the live show. It wrapped up at like 10.30 or so. And I knew that I wouldn't make it back to my hotel room, record the entire episode, get it edited and produced and put out in time. So all of the statements I said were true, right? It all made sense, but I didn't want to be recapping the Our Truth show today, which would have been over a week later. But that show at circa, our fourth live show was bigger and better than I could have ever possibly imagined.

It was amazing meeting you guys after the show for the meet and greet and all of you guys who were also part of the VIP tickets who stayed for the Ask CVV beforehand. You showed up early for that beforehand. You guys came from all over the world. I was meeting people from the UK and from Canada, of course. and from Australia, New Zealand. It was amazing, amazing meeting all of you guys. So thank you for coming out.

Thank you for making it the biggest insight live that we've ever done, but we're going to blow it out of the water in New York City for SummerSlam weekend. Grab those tickets at CVVTX.com. That's CVVTIX.com. I had such a packed week in Vegas. I drove out on Wednesday. So I drove out, it's about four-ish hour drive, drove out on Wednesday. Then we had the live show on Thursday.

Hall of Fame on Friday and some other stuff, some interviews in there on Friday. Saturday, WrestleMania all day. I got to the stadium at like 1130 a.m. stayed all day. I did, and you just probably saw it online. I chatted with John Sina briefly. he was doing a meet and greet before the show. And I was like, hey, man, like this has been wild.

Your hill turn has been wild. And he goes, maybe I'm not supposed to share this. I don't know. But he goes, it's about to get a whole lot crazier. Okay. What is that? I mean, this was on Saturday, too. Then on Sunday, yeah, Sunday was at the stadium again all day and went to the roast

afterwards. And I will say that there were a lot of that the roast was shocking, hilarious, hilarious, but shocking. Some of those jokes, I was like, oh my gosh, are they really going there? Are they really mentioning that topic or this other topic? Oh yeah. Oh, yeah, they did. They did. Then Monday morning did. There was something with Netflix. and you might have seen the photos. They did a little brunch. It was Jay Uso, Grayson Waller, Austin Theory, Street Profits, Live and Raquel, pretty deadly.

Chelsea Green, like, just star-studded, star-studded. And then I went to Roth to WrestleMania, and that's my first ever, Rafter WrestleMania. I've been to 14 WrestleMania's, but I've always ended up leaving either Sunday night, if it's on the West Coast, like I told the story, but I left like I was like rushing out of WrestleMania 31 in San Francisco and missed the miss the cash in because I'm like, man, we got to beat all the traffic to get out of here because

our flight leaves in like two hours and we don't want to get stuck in stadium traffic getting out of here. So, but I either leave Sunday night or Monday morning. This is my first time staying for the Roth's WrestleMania and it did not disappoint. So all of that is to say we have a lot to talk about this Friday with everything going on. Welcome, my friends, to Ask CVV number 80, the Jerry Rice, Danny Amandola, and Chris Carter edition. If you have a question for next week for Ask CVV number 81, send it in on social media using the hashtag AskCTVV,

leave a comment on Spotify, or shoot me an email, CVV at Chris Fanfleet.com. And that's what Carly did. We'll kick things off with an email from Carly who says, hi, Chris, writing this on behalf of my 11-year-old son, Oscar. Hey, Oscar, how are you? We listen to your podcast while driving to and from his various activities and running errands around town. I do not allow Oscar to have social media, so we have turned to email to reach out to you. All you need to know is that Oscar is a real, real one. I appreciate you, Oscar. Thank you. Oscar wants to know what your thoughts are on WrestleMania 41. What was the most shocking moment?

What match do you think stole the show? Also, we live in Fargo, North Dakota. Any chance that you're looking at 2026 and thinking about doing a live show at SummerSlam 2006 in Minneapolis, we would love to see you there. Thanks, Oscar and his mom, Carly. Well, you guys are awesome. Thank you for your email. Thank you for listening to the show.

years old, you might be, you might be one of the youngest listeners. You might be one of the youngest real, real ones. So I appreciate you. I had a blast. I had an absolute blast both nights of WrestleMania. I was in the press box for night one, night two, I was on the floor in the seventh row. Like, it still blows my mind. I was in the seventh row. That's the closest I've ever sat for WrestleMania. I think that Triple H said it best.

in the press conference after night one, that matches are kind of like songs on an album. I loved this metaphor, that the songs together tell a story, tell the story of the full album. But you may like one song, I may like another song, but we can agree that the songs together

tell a story and tell the story of the album. I don't want to toot my own horn here, but beep, beep. I predicted almost every match except for two. I said Al Grande Americano would lose, but I feel like we got to put an asterisk next to this. Because I said that Al Grande

Americano would lose to Ray Mysterio. He ended up beating a different Ray. He ended up beating Ray Phoenix. But what a great last minute pivot. Also, what a month for Ray Phoenix. He debuts on Smackdown. I think he's had

two matches, and then he makes his WrestleMania debut. Amazing. And that's the, this is the whole thing about wrestling in general is like you always have to be ready. It's the Matt Cardona phrase, right? You don't get ready. You stay ready. And for them to call him up, I believe, from what I know, called up Ray Phoenix on Saturday morning.

Because Ray Mysterio got injured with a pretty bad groin injury on Friday night at Smackdown. Called Ray Phoenix up on Saturday morning and said, you want a wrestle mini match. you do it. And I'm assuming he went absolutely 100%. And then they put on just an absolute classic. I don't know where it goes from here, though. Like how much longer do we have El Grande Americano under the mask? And how much longer does Chad Gable stay out? Just feel for Chad Gable. All of these opportunities he couldn't have are going to this new young upstart who just, you know, has had just a handful of matches in WWE. week. I loved the triple threat match to end night one, the double turn by Paul Heyman. And then the new

faction that was formed, the Raft of WrestleMania with Bronbreaker and Seth Rollins and Paul Heyman. I've seen some people saying maybe this is a new version of evolution. Could you put a fourth member in there? I don't know if that's actually going to be the case here. This might just be Paul Heyman managing two guys at once. I guess we'll have to see where that all goes. But my big question from that match is where does this leave Roman Raines? Where does Roman Raines go from here? I assume it's a match with CM Punk, but I think we can pretty safely say the bloodline is over. And it's funny, everything that was predicted about the bloodline. Cody said it in a promo, like, basically said, like, yeah, Jimmy's going to turn on you.

Jay's going to turn on you. Like, everything Cody said is what happened. And Roman's now, like, very lost. Roman's very lost without the bloodline. Romans's very lost without his wise man. And I'm curious where this goes. Does Roman take some time off? Do we not see him for a few months? Does he have a match at SummerSlam with CM Punk? I don't know. But I'm very curious. to see where that one goes. And it's a side of Roman Reigns we really haven't seen where he's not like, he was kind of like the reincarnation of Super Sina.

Like for so long, Roman Reins was, but even to another level, because not only was he winning every match and held the championship for 1,316 days, but he was doing it with the help of the bloodline. It was like these dirty, very healish wins. Where does it go from here?

Because it feels like we're getting the first genuine baby face run of Roman Raines. And I get like, look, I understand they were trying to make Roman Raines a baby face. Roman Raines was on paper, a baby face for the better half of like 2015-ish to like 2020. I understand that. But nobody was buying it. Roman Raines was being shoved down everybody's throats. and it wasn't until he turned heel. It wasn't until wreck everybody and leave.

It wasn't until he aligned with Paul Heyman that people started going, oh, man, I like what Roman Raines has to offer. So now that that heel run was as successful as it was and that's out of his system, we could see a legitimate baby face run from Roman Raines. He's been kind of a tweener for the last few months.

But if this continues here, or if he goes away for a little bit and comes back, I think we get a legit baby face run. So this obviously begs the question, if we do end up getting CM Punk versus Roman Raines, is this baby face versus baby face? Because CM Punk is over. Why he is over.

Roman Raines hasn't officially turned baby face, although he's done a lot of baby face things. He's getting baby face reactions. But that'll be very interesting. to see where it goes. Speaking of triple threat match is that women's triple threat match was, what a banger.

What a banger. It was just high energy too. I love that. Some other highlights for me, Randy Orton versus Joe Hendry. And I said this at the Royal Rumble. I will say it again now. If you just woke up from a coma,

if you were in a coma for the last year or two, And you woke up from a coma and you saw the TNA, the current TNA world champion wrestling on WrestleMania, you wouldn't believe it. Like this is something that just seemed impossible last year, let alone 15-ish years ago when TNA was like really in its prime with AJ Stiles and Samoa Joe and everything that was going on in the X Division, Abyss and everything. all of that other stuff. Could you imagine? But it's happening. It's here. And what a pop. And it's funny. Like I had said, you know, all signs kind of pointing it to be Nick Aldous. Could it be the returning Rusev, which I also called. I said, I don't think Roussev's appearing at WrestleMania, but I do feel like he'll be at the raft of WrestleMania. Bingo, that happened. And dude, the shape he's in right now, amazing. It's funny.

Because I, a night two of WrestleMania, I was chatting with some people at the stadium before the show. And I ran into someone from TNA. And I jokingly, jokingly said, oh, are you here because Joe Hendry's going to show up? And they just totally cave. It, oh, no, no, not at all. And then Joe Hendry showed up. And it's funny because, like, I just had a feeling. in my gut, like 15 minutes before that match. I'm like, you know what? Joe Hendry makes a lot of

sense here. Like, you don't need any buildup for that. You don't need any buildup at all. We had the nice little red herring with Solo Sacoa coming out. But I said, look, them not announcing the opponent on Smackdown builds us up for a bigger surprise. Because I think that if they were going to have, let's call it an underwhelming surprise, if it was going to be someone that they were inserting into this match, they would have done it on SmackDown. They would have tried to like lessen the blow and go, all right, the match is happening with this person and this person. It's Randy Orton versus this person.

We all would have gone, okay, that's not what we were expecting, but all right. But when they didn't do that on SmackDown, I went, oh, well, now they've up the ante here. It's truly going to be a surprise because if it's a current member of the roster, we're going to go, huh, that's it? Like, this doesn't really make a lot of sense. And like 15 minutes before I said, you know what? I just have a feeling. It's going to be Joe Hendry.

And that was the most entertaining match of the entire weekend, in my opinion. Like, Joe Hendry just doing his thing, Randy Orton, getting in on it and copying Joe Hendry's signature, like the turnaround thing. The moment we're like, Joe Hendry does the turn to the camera and then half a second later eats an RKO. Brilliant. It's brilliant. And now because of what happened in the Raw after WrestleMania, we get Randy Orton versus

John Cena. I'm pumped about that. Dominic Mysterio is the new intercontinental champion. That match was just so much fun. And I think we all looked at that match on paper and went four guys that can go. this match is going to be great. A ton of title changes. A ton of title changes.

Jay Uso defeating Gunther. There's one. New Day defeating War Raiders. That's two. Jacob Fattu defeating L.A. Knight. That's three. Tiffany Stratton retained against Charlotte Flair. And what a physical match.

Like a far more physical match than I think anyone would have expected out of them. Did you think, Like, were you thinking what I was thinking that Tiffany Stratton like chipped her tooth? Like, it totally looked like that. I'd love to ask her what actually happened. But I was sitting in the press conference and she came out and she had a big smile and I was like, oh, she didn't chip her tooth. So what was it?

Like, what were we seeing there? Was it makeup? I don't know. E. Sky, the only other one to retain in that three way with Bianca and Rio Ripley. So Tiffany Stratton and E. Sky, the only ones to retain. Broner, loses his title in the four way.

Laia Val Curia, which was a nice surprise to have Becky Lynch as her tag team partner. What a big return there. Defeating Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez. And then, of course, John Cena winning the championship from Cody Rose. We've got a lot to talk about with that match. A lot to talk about with that match. WrestleMania 18 vibes in there, right? Many fans cheering for the rock.

quite frankly many chance fans cheering for hogan it was i mean i was there at russomani 18 and it felt a lot like that like sena's out there he's the heel and the crowd really wanted to see him win number 17 i hope it played out on tv the same way that it did in the stadium like cody was getting booed john sina was getting cheered and unlike russlemania 18 where they kind of flip things where Rock started working as a heel and Hogan started working as a baby face. It's not what they did here. John Sina just kept doing heelish things and kept getting a baby face reaction. The fans just kept cheering them.

But I think that people aren't keying in on what John Sina has been saying these last few weeks. John Sina said, you get nothing. It's always been about what do we get? John Sina's turning heel. What do we get? What's his new attire going to look like? What's his new entrance song going to look like? What do we get?

What do we get? John Cena said you get nothing. And nobody believed him. Came out with the same entrance song. Came out with the same entrance. I mean, changes it up a little bit. Walks a little slower.

I mean, he walks. He doesn't run. But then he said he's going to ruin wrestling. So what's he do? He goes out there. Night two main event and has, I think intentionally the most boring

match that he can have. and people are upset, man, it's a boring match. Well, what did John Cena say? John Cena said that he was going to ruin wrestling. Well, how could you possibly be upset if he's doing the exact thing that he said he was going to do? And I know a lot of the criticism here is because the rock didn't show up. And I think that doesn't fall on the rock. Like, rock was never announced here.

So like, yeah, sure, there was an assumption. by a lot of people, myself included, that he would be a surprise. But you know what they say? You know what happens when you assume, right? This match wasn't about the rock. This was a match was about John, Sina, and Cody Rhodes. So you can't be mad that a surprise that you hoped for but was never announced didn't end up happening.

So, like, I don't think that that falls on the rock. Here's my problem, though. my problem is we still haven't got an explanation for why John Sina sided with the Rock. The Rock has this whole spiel, this whole promo about selling his, you're going to sell your soul to the Rock. I can promise you so many things. Cody Rhodes says, F you, but John Sina seemingly takes that deal. like if john sina is mad at the audience which is what he's been carrying this whole heel run every promo has been about how the audience booed him for so many years and how he just went along with the

way that he was treated in this abusive relationship if that is the storyline we're going with and i'm just talking logistics here i'm just talking about sheer wrestling logic if john sina is mad at the fans, why did he kick Cody Rhodes in the balls? And I understand the reasoning. Cody Rhodes is the biggest baby face. Well, how do you get over as a heel? Well, you do something to the biggest baby face. It makes sense. But if he's kicking Cody in the balls, what does that have to do with the audience? We haven't got an explanation there for like, why did he side with the rock? We haven't seen the rock since elimination chamber. And what the hell is Travis Scott doing in all of this?

Like there has been zero explanation as to why Travis Scott is there, what he's doing, why he's a heel at all, like just a few weeks before that, he was coming out and yeeding with Jay Uso during the raw Netflix premiere in L.A. why is he a heel? Like he hasn't said one single word about this. And I think that for me, that's where the confusion is. I enjoyed the main event on night two. I think it was everything that it was supposed to be.

I especially think that John Cena's celebration afterwards was like, I think some of the best heel work we've seen from John Cena. Like these promos that he's been cutting, I've really enjoyed. But I thought that his. reaction of just kind of being like, the look on his face after he won was kind of like, yeah, of course I won. I told you I was going to do it and I did it. And I appreciate that.

But we still need an explanation here. That's my problem with this. I've seen a lot of people online unfairly saying that this is one of the worst WrestleMania as they've ever seen. Like, clearly you haven't watched all of the WrestleMania's because there are, there are some real stinkers in there. But I think that when you go into something with an expectation, and this isn't just to do with wrestling, this is to do with any form of entertainment. This is just to do with life.

When you go in with expectations and your expectations aren't met, you're upset. So it sounds to me, like for a lot of people, they thought WrestleMania 41 was pretty great for the first 13 matches. And then when the 14th match came around and it didn't meet their expectations, it didn't go the way that they thought it was supposed to go, all of a sudden, both days of WrestleMania out the window, this thing sucks. And I don't think that's the case.

I thought there were a lot of incredible matches here. There's a lot of moments that we're going to be talking about from this WrestleMania, from this WrestleMania for years to come. But just because you didn't like the pacing of the main event match, again, John Cena going out there and saying he's going to ruin wrestling, Cody Rhodes is trying all Cody Rhodes fancy stuff. It's not working. John Cena's going out there like punches and double axe handles and an A.

or maybe now it's an FU. I don't know. It feels like it should be back to being called that if he's a heel. John Cena is just like old school like, this is how you win a wrestling match in the most boring way possible. Like he's been getting up to this point, we've been booing John Sina because he's a bad guy and it feels like that's what we're supposed to do. It feels now like he's teetering on like, oh, well, you're booing me.

because like I'm a heel and that's what you're supposed to do. It feels like now it's like, I want to give you an actual reason to not like me. I want to give you an actual reason. I'm not just playing a bad guy. I'm doing bad guy things. I'm doing things to make sure that you do not like me. And that's what we'll see here. That's what we are seeing here. I'm just worried that we're never going to get an answer about the rock and we're never going to get an answer for Travis Scott. Like if Travis Scott is playing that big of a pivotal role in the main event of night two of WrestleMania 41, we need to be invested in this. We need to care.

I can't be the only one that was thinking when his music hit that it would be very quickly followed by the Rock's music right after. But that's not what happened. So just tell me why we're supposed to care about Travis Scott very slowly. walking down to the ring and then mixing it up with Cody. I just, I need a storyline answer as to why we are supposed to be invested in that. Because we haven't been told anything. Up to this point, Travis Scott just came out with the rock at elimination chamber,

stood in the corner while they did the entire promo, and then slapped Cody Rhodes and gave him a black guy. For what reason? I don't know. I'm not sure. Nobody knows. And that's what I'd like an explanation for. But I digress. I thoroughly enjoyed WrestleMania 41.

I haven't watched it back yet. I've seen a lot of clips online. I haven't watched it back yet. I'd love to see if it played out on TV the same way that it played out in the stadium because it was loud in there. It was loud. With over 28 million downloads, Seat Geek is the number one rated ticketing app.

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love that. Real, real ones. No. What did you think of Randy Orton entering the John Sina retirement run this early? Cody pinned Sina at WrestleMania 41? I think you mean the, the, sorry, with no reform of course. I see what you did there. Do you think that this is a reaction of Cody being booed as a baby face and Sina being cheered as a heel? Did things speed up because of the K.O. injury? A lot to unpack there. Big fan of your work. And thank you for all of your insight, Nick. I think the simple answer here is backlash is in Randy Orton's hometown of St. Louis in a few weeks. That is our answer.

That's it. And there's only two weeks as of right now 15 days to backlash. Who better to headline backlash than your hometown guy, Randy Orton. That is why this match is happening when it's happening. That's it. That is the simple explanation for. it. I would assume that John Sina's 17th World Championship win is not three weeks long. So I would assume that John Sina beats Randy Orton at Backlash. We'll, of course, give full predictions in two

weeks when we know the card for backlash. I would assume that's what's going to happen here. But then I think we run it back. I still think, and obviously a lot can change between now and December, but I still think that Randy Orton is John Sina's final opponent. It just makes too much sense to not do that. Sanchez-Louise on Facebook says, in the current roster, can you name your top five opponents that you want to see John Cena face? Oh man, only five of them? All right.

So we're not going to include Cuddy Roads because it's already happened. So that will not be part of this list here. Five opponents. I think two of them are real obvious. And I'm fingers crossed that we get both of them. I know for sure we're getting Randy Orton. So that's number one. I would love to see them run it back with CM Punk.

And I just think that the mic work that we would see there would be just so good. It would be so good. Then I think we get into like fantasy booking territory here. So I think a match with Roman Raines should happen. I don't know how we get there with this arc that Roman Raines seems to be on with CM Punk. I don't know how we get there. But I think that if it was like, maybe a SummerSlam type of thing,

Roman Raines versus John Cena, it'd be amazing. So there's three. Then I would love to see Gunther, just be like a good old fashion wrestling match. And man, Gunther's so good. Put him in there with anyone,

so good. And then I'd love to see John Cena work with like a younger talent. Even if that younger talent doesn't get the win, to be in there and to mix it up with John Cena would be just so good for their career. So I'm going brawn breaker on that one. I don't know if that's a possibility. I don't know if the Gunther match happens either,

but I would love to see Braunbreaker have a match. Maybe it's a Saturday night's main event. I would love to see that. Bronbreaker, John Cena. So there's my five. And I think that we'll get likely three out of the five. But I've mentioned this before, but I don't know how many matches we get.

in this retirement tour. And side note, we're after WrestleMania. I love that John Cena is now going to count down his dates. Like, it's just such a spit in the face. It's almost like when you've quit your job, but you still have to like do your final two weeks. You put in your two weeks notice, but you still have to like show up. And you're, you're barely putting in the effort. You're taking like extra long lunch breaks. Maybe you're even showing up a little late. You just don't care anymore. more. And that's the vibe that I'm getting when John's seen us like, look, 27 dates left. And then when he comes out the next time, it's going to be a big sign in the Tron, 26 dates left, 25 dates left, 24 dates left. And I think, though, while a lot of that will be run as a heel,

I do think that it's going to get a little sentimental when he gets down to the final, call it 10 or 5, or it's going to be like, I would think by the, by the, that point, Sina's come around as a baby face. And I would think at that point, we're going, oh, man, it's only five left. Oh, man. I only have four left. Kind of like when you're on an amazing vacation and you know, you got to go back to work that Monday and you're like, oh, it's so much funny. We only have two days left. Ah, today's our last day. We got to fly home today. I feel like it's going to come back around to that towards the end. But I really enjoy. the no-nonsense entrance that John Sina has now, just his name, like a placeholder,

and no lights, and now the countdown to how many dates he has left. I really think it may not be easy to appreciate it now, but I think all the nuances that are being put into John Sina's heel turn are going to be things we look back on in five or ten years. And we're going to go, huh, I really wish I had appreciated that more while it was happening. Look, throw your expectations out the window. There's a great quote that I love. Maybe I should have ended this episode with it. Maybe I still will.

But if you trade your expectations for appreciation, it is impossible to be upset. Because if you have expectations and they aren't met, you'll be pissed off. You'll be annoyed. you'll be disappointed, whatever you want to call it. But if you're just appreciative of like, oh, man, we watched history at WrestleMania, John Cena 1 number 17th's never happened before and we watched it live. If you're able to just appreciate what's happening, I think, and you can live in the moment and be present, I think that you'll enjoy this John Cena heel turn so much more.

Because I truly think that we're all going to look back on this in five or ten years. years and go, huh, man, that was pretty great. James Clark sent in this email. Hey, Chris, happy Friday. Happy Friday to you, James. James is Cooper's middle name, our son Cooper. Hope you're doing well. I'm assuming you've seen Carrie and Cross's outburst on the WrestleMania recap show and I was wondering, do you think that the attention that it is getting him will translate into a big push for him? Seems to me like it was very similar to CM Punk's pipe bomb. I personally hope, that he gets a major storyline sometime soon as I'm a big fan of his character work.

Much love and happiness to you and your family from the UK, James. It seems to me that what Carrying Cross is doing here is he just stopped asking for permission. Like there's that whole thing of like, do you ask for permission or do you beg for forgiveness? And it feels like Carrying Cross or Kevin, the actual man, is doing the latter. He's just going out there and doing it. And if it pisses some people off, well, we can just ask for forgiveness later. And the fact that this happened on the Raw recap show or the Russell Mini Recap show and not like out there live on Smackdown or live on Raw or live on a PLE, I feel like he was testing the waters. And it's fitting that he was doing this with Sam Roberts because I love when Sam Roberts says that we live in an era now where everything counts.

like there was a point in time in wrestling 20, 30 plus years ago where when something was said in an interview or something was said on a talk show or something was said on a red carpet at a movie premiere, it just didn't, it felt like it existed in an alternate universe. Like, yeah, we understand that person said that thing, but what really only matters is what you see on Monday and what you see on Friday and what happens at paper views back then. That is out the window now. and there was definitely, it seemed like there was some real passion behind what he was saying and a lot of truth

to what he was saying too. And I think that the most telling line in that whole thing was that's from Killer Cross. He's never been Killer Cross in WWE. He's always been carrying Cross. Killer Cross was who he was in TNA. It's who he was on the Indies. and Killer Cross had a bit more of an edge to him. And I feel like they've been building to something more

with Carrying Cross for weeks now. Like they've been putting him in some pretty big storylines. Maybe he's been adjacent to those storylines, but there's been some big stuff that he's gotten his hands dirty with. And if you run down the list, he's turned a lot of people heal. Like they have an interaction with Carrying Cross. he gets in their head. He turns,

he turned Drew McIntyre heel, Shinska Nakamura, AJ Styles, the Miz, the new day, like there's something there. And I feel like they're playing the long game

with this. And look, we all know how talented carrying crosses. He has all of the tools to be a massive, massive star. And I think that this

is going to be a breakout year for him. Maybe. It happened as a result of this promo, this unscripted promo on the Russellmania recap show, or maybe this has already been one they've had in the chamber for a little while and they've just been waiting to see where they would, you know, kind of hit it and make it happen. But big things, I think, in store for carrying cross. Rory underscore Hall on Instagram says, how far do you think Joe Hendry can go in WWE?

Rory from Scotland. Well, Rory, Rory, thank you so much for your message. Triple H had some very, very kind words for Joe Hendry. In the press conference after night two, he said, quote, I love him. He's a great talent, a great entertainer, smart, respectful to what we do. He's got a bright future. I was happy that we could put him in the spot and showcase him for everybody. And then this part, I think, is very interesting.

I told him right before he walked out, you will be here again. So enjoy this one because the pressure gets heavy. from here. This will be the easiest WrestleMania you ever do, and there will be more. So how far can he go? Like I mentioned before, none of us would have thought the current

TNA world champion would be doing anything in WWE, let alone entering a Royal Rumble, and being part of a match with Randy Orton at WrestleMania. So he's already pushed the boundaries of what's for someone who's under TNA contract, and it's been amazing to see. But I don't know when

his contract is up with TNA. I'm sure TNA would love to keep him, but I would have to think that whenever that contract is up, there's going to be a nice offer from WWE. So how far can ago, the sky's the limit. There's no reason to believe that Joe Hendry couldn't at some point, three years, five years, maybe more from now. There's no reason to think he couldn't be a world champion in WWE as well. And it's just so funny. Go back to the interview that him and I did last year. Almost everything he's manifested for himself has come true. And the The one thing that he said, like, I just, I see it like it's already happened is a match with John Sina.

Do I think that in the limited amount of matches that John Sina is going to have in 2025 on this retirement tour, that one of those matches will be against Joe Hendry? I don't know. It'd be unprecedented having the current WWE champion against the current TNA champion in a match. And maybe that would be why this happens. but Joe Hendry is like living a dream right now, and I couldn't be more happy for all of the things that he's done.

Also, he's going to be joining me in the studio next week, an interview that you'll be seeing in about a week and a half, two weeks. Can't wait to have him back on the show. Adam Couturier, I hope I'm saying that right, on Facebook. Adam says, what are your thoughts? on lifting the curtain on the writer's room in Netflix. I'm not a fan. Some things take the magic away. So you're referring to this new show that's coming out on Netflix called WWE Unreal, which peels the curtain back and kind of shows you what's going on behind the scenes. What's the

buildup to these matches? What are the things that they're talking about as they're putting these together? What are the pivots they had to make? And I don't know why people are treating this like that's it's a new thing. We saw this in the 90s with Beyond the Matt. And that was really the first time that KFabe was broken to that degree of that in wrestling with shadows. With both of those, it was like, we're going to take you behind the curtain. We're going to show you the conversations that happen before these matches, the conversations that happened after these matches. This is not a new thing. And I've personally always loved that stuff. I love seeing how the sausage is made, not just with wrestling, but with movies as well.

When I worked full time in TV as an entertainment reporter, they would, for going way back here, when a new movie was coming out, a month or two before, they would send what was called an EPK. It was a big beta tape, an electronic press kit. That's what EPK stands for. And it would have like interviews, like the making of interviews and like interviewing the cast on the set and then would have like nine or ten or twelve minutes of B-roll. Just like straight-up B-roll of like them making the movie. And sometimes you see green screen and sometimes you see

wires attached. Sometimes you see outtakes of scenes that they either there were bloopers or scenes that just didn't make it into the movie. I always love that stuff. I was the guy who would buy certain Blu-rays because there were deleted scenes on there or there was director's commentary. Like, I've always loved that kind of stuff for me, and this isn't for everybody, for me, that helps me to appreciate it even more to see like, oh, man. So like, that person was injured and somehow they powered through it. And, you know, we got to see this behind the scenes. We got to watch them taping up their ankle or maybe another example. I'm just making this stuff up right now. I would love to see the behind the scenes of how Ray Phoenix got the call.

that he was going to be part of his first WrestleMania in his first month in WWE. I think that that stuff's so cool and makes me appreciate it even more. But at the end of the day, no one is forcing you to watch this. If you think that it takes the magic away for you, I'm not just talking to you, Adam, to anybody who feels this way, just don't watch it. That's it. You don't have to watch it.

if you would prefer to have your wrestling exist just from when the show starts to when the show ends, great. That's cool. That is certainly your prerogative and you can absolutely do that. There's a lot of fans who like me appreciate this type of stuff. I felt the same way about tough enough. I loved watching tough enough and seeing like someone go from knowing nothing about wrestling to like learning how to bump, learning how to run.

run the ropes like I love that stuff I love the same thing with breaking ground remember remember when that was a show geez that I think it's just really cool to see that stuff I there's been a number of times I've been at a show before the doors are open or I've been backstage at a show it's to me really cool watching two wrestlers put together a match and it's the funniest thing because it's almost like they're speaking their own language. Like, okay, so I'm going to put the mic down for this. I'm going to, I'm going to hit you with this. And then you're going to go over and they're like ducking around and like swinging their arms. Like it's cool to like see them talking through these spars. And I'm going to hit you with the bang, bang. You just do the gimmick thing.

It's, it's cool then seeing that come to fruition. So I enjoy it. If it's not for you, no one is saying you need to watch this. So it's quite all right. Like I've seen the comments of people going, well, just, just tell us that K Fabe is dead. They've been telling you KFAB is dead for years. So if you're hanging on to this tiny, like, last strand of like, oh, it's still, it's still real to me, damn it. Great. That's the way that you watch wrestling. That's fine. Like, there's, there's, I know, I have friends of mine. And you've got to remember, I'm a movie critic. I review movies and I vote on the Critics Choice Awards. I have friends of mine. I have friends of who don't want to watch the trailer before a movie because they don't want anything ruined.

They go into the movie with a completely blank slate going, show me what you got. And that's great. I want to know a lot about the movie. Like if it's based on a book, I'd like to find out what's that book about. Tell me something else. I'd like a little bit of context for this. So I get that not everybody watches things the same way. not everybody is entertained in the same way.

So if this isn't for you, cool. Don't watch it. Sean underscore the underscore good on Instagram says, ask CVV number 80, what are your thoughts on the tag titles changing hands twice in 24 hours? I think this was just to build up a storyline with Becky Lynch and Lyra.

So I feel for Bailey. And if you listen to the interview or you watch the interview that I had with her, I feel for her. She alluded to the fact that she already knew that she was going to be off WrestleMania and then they wrote her off. Lyra needs a, an opponent or a tag team partner who's it going to be.

Wow. It's amazing. It's her childhood hero. It's a person she grew up looking up to. It makes perfect sense. So they have their moment. They win the championship. Huge reaction.

Lyra with both belts. I love it. and then the next night on raw we see the heel turn Becky turns heel but getting a big baby face reaction crowds chanting Becky Becky backie back so that's why they changed it back that's it was to have the huge WrestleMania moment with both of them winning the championships the next night they lose the title titles back to live in Raquel so that Becky can turn on Lyra that's the reason for this. I imagine we get Lyra versus Becky at backlash. That's the whole reason for this. But a lot of, again, we've talked about this a bunch. Titles are changing hands now with quite a bit more frequency than they have in a long time. Like it reminds me of how things were in the Monday Net wars. We're not just raw, but not just raw in Smackdown, but WCW as well. Like, titles changed hands pretty frequently.

And I think it's a nice little reminder from both Netflix and USA Network of going, you got to tune in. Like, it's not just about the PLEs now. You've got to tune in because anything can happen on any given Monday or Friday. Ian Eisenberg on Spotify says, Do you think the Stadium Survivor Series is a one-time thing due to the 26th Royal Rumble being in Saudi Arabia? I think it will be a big night for the Mysterios. Sina versus either of them would be huge.

I think that the big four PLEs moving forward, so beginning this year and then moving forward, are always going to be in stadiums. I just think that TKO is doing everything with this mentality of like, let's do it as big as we possibly can. And I think that that was very evident with the amount of events that happened during this last,

week in Vegas, there was so much going on there. I think Royal Rumble, WrestleMania, Summer Slam and Survivor Series are always going to be in a stadium. Now, this is an open air stadium. This is at Petco Park, which in my opinion is one of the most beautiful modern day baseball parks. If you don't know, my dad and I go to a different baseball stadium every year. We've been to 25 MLB stadiums. My favorite is either, I think my favorite, Fenway, my dad's favorite is regularly, but I'm okay with flipping those one, two at any point in time. They're both such beautiful, classic baseball stadiums. But Pekko being a modern stadium, and there's a handful of really beautiful modern stadiums.

I think that Pekko's at the top of the list. I loved it there. And it's like integrated right into the city. Really beautiful how they've done it there. This is an open-air stadium. So let's all cross our fingers for some decent weather. And it's Southern California, so like, it doesn't rain often. It's not cold often, but let's just cross our fingers and hope that it's going to be that way.

And I agree with you. Sina versus either of the Mysterios would be massive there. 619, right? It's the area code for San Diego. Fun fact, neither of the Mysterios live in San Diego anymore or California at all, for that matter. They both live in Las Vegas. I know they still claim 619. they still claim San Diego, of course, that's their hometown.

But I'm just pointing that out that while it is their hometown, they've been out of there for something like four or five years. But I'd love to see that match. It would make a lot of sense. And I don't think we have a lot more, I don't think we have a lot more of Ray. Like I think that, I think Ray only has a few more years left. And I am just so hopeful that he's able to make a full, recovery from this injury. I ended up seeing him, we left the Hall of Fame together. So I saw him

walking out of the Hall of Fame. And he was like, he was limping. So I hope that this is something that he can recover fully from and be okay from. But I think the older you get, the longer it takes to recover from injuries. So we'll see. And also, I feel like we're going to get this question. So let's try to do, let's try to do a live show in San Diego. It's tough because it's, it's Thanksgiving weekend. So I'd be doing the show either Friday night or Saturday afternoon before Survivor series. Friday nights, Black Friday, I don't know, are you guys going to be too busy shopping to want to come out to a live show? But we'll see. Let me know. If you're listening on Spotify, leave a comment. If you're in Southern California, if you live in San Diego, or if you're

planning to go to Survivor Series, let me know if you'd be down for a live show because I'd love to do it. Stephen Harrison emailed this one in for the Jerry Rice edition. Hi, Chris, Jerry Rice is my cousin. Amazing. So I decided to send in this question. Were people in attendance as sleeping, watching the Hall of Fame as those of us who were watching in other time zones? I took a nap in in the middle and finished Triple H's speech yesterday. It was fantastic, but I couldn't help but wonder what it was like for the people who were in attendance who had maybe had a long day. Thanks, Chris. Stay positive.

You're the best. So there was a picture floating around. There was a meme that was made of all these people who were caught sleeping in the audience during the Hall of Fame. And my photo was on this. Guys, I would like to set the record straight. It was an extremely long day. that Friday. An extremely long day. I woke up at 5 a.m. to go over to the Talon Hotel, I did two

interviews there. Bailey, which you've already seen. I also did Eric from the War Raiders, and that's an interview you'll be seeing next week. I didn't get to bed until 2.30 that night, a dentist's favorite time. That's my favorite dad joke. Tooth hurty. So it was a long day, but I did not fall asleep during the Hall of Fame speech. I may have been looking down at something, but I did not fall asleep. Booker T. did fall asleep. Although if you look at his social media,

he just said he was praying. He just said he was in his eyes closed in prayer. Love Booker T, but I did not fall asleep. There were a lot of people there that were fighting for their lives. I was talking to a talent, I will not. not name them, but they were like, I'm so glad I had sunglasses on because I was fighting hard to stay awake. I loved all of the speeches, but I think that there needs to be a mandate after this Hall of Fame. I think there needs to be two mandates. One, I think it needs to be on

Thursday. I think that WrestleMania Week should begin on Thursday with the Hall of Fame into Smackdown on Friday, Saturday morning NXT, then into night one, into night two. And if they're going to do a roast again, sure, that can be Sunday night, although that was also a long night and a late night. Because it happened, didn't start, it was supposed to start at 10,

didn't end up starting until 10.45. It went till like 1 o'clock. So that was also a really late night. So by the time you're back at your hotel, 1.30, 2 o'clock, that was also a really late one. And so, yeah, it was a lot. But I think there needs to be a mandate of it. It starts on Thursday and then they need to be capped at like 18 minutes.

You know, a TED Talk is capped at 18 minutes or at least it was. I think they might have actually cut that down out of like 12 or 14. But I understand why the speeches in the past have been so long. And we're not just talking about Triple H here. Like a lot of the speeches in the past have been really long. Because you're trying to sum up a 30 year career, a 30 plus year career. into one speech. And I think you're afraid of forgetting important people or forgetting important moments or I think you also start writing the, you start writing your speech out. And you go,

well, if I'm going to include that, then I got to include this. And if I include this, then I got to include this other thing. It actually reminds me of if you're getting married, you're like, oh, we're just going to keep to a small wedding. We're just going to be a small wedding. Stop me if you've heard this one before, because if you've had a wedding that's had a decent amount of people, I'm sure you can relate. Well, if we're going to invite Uncle John, well, then we got to invite Uncle Ted. If Uncle Ted's going to come, then my cousin Sue and Michael need to come, and that's what this ends up happening. So I think that that's kind of the same way when you're writing a Hall of Fame speech. But I think that they could learn a big lesson from the

NFL. If you look at some of the most iconic NFL retirement speeches, Hall of Fame speeches, sorry, Hall of Fame speeches, they're not longer than 20 minutes. Since this is Ask CVV number 80, the Jerry Rice edition, I looked it up. Jerry Rice's Hall of Fame speech was 17 minutes long. So you have a career as incredible as Jerry Rice's career, one of the greatest of all time, his speech is 17 minutes. Since it's Ask CVV number 80, the Chris Carter edition,

I looked up Chris Carter's Hall of Fame speech. You know how long his was? Also 17 minutes. So his entire career summed up in 17 minutes. How about Peyton Manning? Since I'm sitting in Indianapolis

right now as I record this, Squared Circle Expo this weekend, Peyton Manning's speech was less than 10 minutes. So I think there's a lesson to be learned here that you can get all of your thank you's in, all of your stories in in 20 minutes or less. And I think that in these scenarios, less is more. Like just because your speech goes on longer doesn't mean it's a better speech.

Like you still have the ability to thank those people to tell those stories in a shorter amount of time. And I just, I feel like this is going to be the moment that we learn. look back on and go, hey, man, remember when speeches used to be over an hour long? Well, they're not anymore. They're like capped at 20 minutes. And it seems, it also seems very clear that the people who are inducted first or second, their speeches are given a time limit. Because I didn't time it, but Michelle McCool's speech was, what, 10-ish minutes? Lex Lugar's speech was about the same. natural disaster speech, I think five to seven-ish minutes.

So I just feel like that's it. No more long speeches after this one. There's been too many comments online. Irish 911-9339 on Spotify says, oh, it's another question about carrying cross. I'm sorry, we did answer that, but thank you for sending that one in. R-Stuber 88 on Instagram says,

how do I get my foot in the door to do interviews like you do? I think you just got to start where you're at. That is the best advice that I have for you. I'm sure that there is a local independent wrestling promotion that runs in or around your area. I'm sure there's a local wrestling conventions that happen somewhere around you. Go and do interviews with literally anybody who will say yes.

Like start where you're at. Start with someone who's willing to do a three to five to 10 minute interview with you. Start there. If for whatever reason, there are not independent shows around where you live, reach out to people, reach out to independent wrestlers online on Instagram or shoot them a DM on Twitter and see if you can do a Zoom interview with them. Start where you're at. Everybody's favorite topic, especially when you work in entertainment is themselves. So if you have the ability to say, hey, I have this show, it's just getting started, but I already have whatever it is, 117 subscribers or 17 subscribers, whatever it is, you have the ability to put yourself over, talk about yourself,

do you want to come on my show and do that? Lead with the value that you have because their time is valuable. So what do you have in exchange for that? What's the value that you have to offer to them? lead with value and start there. So start where you're at and continue to build on it. Your first interview, it'll suck. It's going to suck.

And your second interview is also going to suck, but it's not going to suck as much as your first interview did. And your third interview, that'll suck too, but not as bad as your second and so on and so forth. So that's it. That is my advice, not just for interviewing,

not just for content creation, not just for podcasting, whatever it is that you want to do. Start where you're at. Start with the first step in this journey and go from there. Hey, Zeus, Cruz emailed this one. And hey, Chris, it's Hey, Zeus, aka Jesus Cruz. It's funny because I know who you are. At the Insight Live show, you asked a question. And you said, hey, my name's Jesus.

And I said, hey, Zeus. it's because I have a friend who goes by Zeus. His real name is Jesus, but I only call him Zeus. And in my mind, for whatever reason, when you said your name was Jesus, I said, hey, Zeus. Weird. Anyway, it was great meeting you at Insight Live this past weekend in Las Vegas. Meeting you was one of my goals for the weekend and getting to ask you a question at the Ask CVVQ&A was pretty great.

For this week, I want to ask you. How do you normally plan a trip when you go to a paper view or interview? P.S. As someone who works at a gas station, what is your go-to snack? Hope to meet you again soon. Well, I hope to meet you again soon. Hey, hey, Zeus. See? Set it right there. Hey, hey, Zeus. For this one in particular, there was so much going on for my week in Las Vegas. It's just so much going on in general. I actually wrote out a schedule. I've never done that before. But I wrote out a schedule. and printed it out so that if things did change and a few things did, a lot of things

actually changed last minute, I was able to write them in. So I was able to look at my day the night before and go, all right, well, tomorrow we've got to wake up at 5 a.m. because we've got this, then this, then this, then this thing after that, then this thing after that. That's usually how I prepare for it. I also try to do as much research as I possibly can. I have Alex Hunt, who is a member of the team. He transcribes all my interviews. And he also does, great in-depth research for these interviews. So like I'll do my own research and then I just, I'd love to have a second set of eyes on this. So he does his research and there's a lot of times that he sees stuff that I don't or he thinks of a brilliant deep cut moment that I didn't.

And we compile that all together and then come up with the talking points. Not usually questions. more like just like talking points of conversation like all right we'll talk about this then this thing after that and kind of go from there my favorite gas station snack is salt and vinegar potato chips so good love me some salt and vinegar potato chips and then i am not as bad with candy as i once was but i'll still i'll still dabble still have a sweet tooth but there was a point in time when I was like a bag of gas station-sized candy like every day. Now I'm trying to be a lot more conscious about what I eat, how I eat it. But high chews are a go-to for me.

Oh, they're just, they're so flavorful. And I can just crush a bag of high-chews. Plus, there's no artificial dyes in high shoes, which I really like. No red 40 or blue five. So I like that. But so high-shoes. And then there's also these. There's a certain, like they call it, like, quote, natural red vines.

They're like the wild berry flavor. That's like that's not easy to find. You can find it like sprouts, but that's my other one. Like I could just, I crush red vines. Love red vines so much. Mario Borer emailed this one in. Hey, CVV, real, real one here. Hoping to become a real, real, real one.

That's what happens when you go to a live show. You become a real, real, real one. With WWE hosting Worlds Collide and Money in the Bank in Los Angeles, is there a possibility of an Insight Live that same weekend? Would love to be part of that Insight Live. Keep up the great work and the positivity in your podcast has helped me through some hard times. That is the plan. Yes, that Friday night, mark it on your calendars.

A pencil it in on your calendars because we haven't officially figured out a date or a time, but we're working on it. And there's a lot of different venues in Los Angeles. So I think it shouldn't be a problem. But that is the plan. Insight Live in Los Angeles. So that'll actually be, that'll be before the one at SummerSlam in New York.

But as of right now, SummerSlam in New York is the next announced live show. But yeah, we've had so much fun at these first four live shows that we did. Indianapolis, two in Toronto. And this one, this last week in Los Angeles. Vegas, I want to do them more often. I would love to do them every month, but I feel like it needs to be a PLE weekend because everybody's already in town. They're already thinking about wrestling. They're already excited about the show that's going to happen. So I feel like it needs to be a

PLA weekend. But yeah, let's do it. That is the plan. Now, you guys will be the first to know when that gets announced, but count on it. And if it doesn't happen, something catastrophic has derailed our plans. But yeah, plan on this thing happening, the Friday before money in the bank. And that, my friends, is the final question on this. Ask CVB number 80, the Jerry Rice, Danny Amandola, Chris Carter edition. If you have a question for next week, leave a comment on Spotify and let me know. Also, if you're listening on Spotify, drop a comment, let me know what your favorite match was from WrestleMania 41. I'd love to see what's in there.

I just put a poll out. I have a broadcast feed on Instagram. I know a lot of you guys are part of that broadcast feed. I just put a poll out and I said, what was your favorite match at WrestleMania 41? Number one was Seth Rollins versus CM Punk versus Roman Raines. I get it. That makes sense. Number two was the women's triple threat.

E.O. Sky versus Bianca Bel Air versus Rea Ripley. number three dominic versus brawn versus fin versus pent of the four away love that match number four j usso versus gunther for all of the hate online for the buildup to that match that match was a ton of fun i will agree that i don't think gunther should have tapped quite as quickly like maybe he should have been in that for five or ten or fifteen seconds or more or maybe he should I probably should have just passed out. I feel like that would have been stronger for his character. And rounding out the top five of what was your favorite match at WrestleMania,

Jacob Fatu versus L.A. Knight. Yeah. So leave a comment on Spotify. Let me know what your favorite match from WrestleMania 41 was. And if you have a question and you're not listening on Spotify, send it in on social media using the hashtag, Ask CVV or shoot me an email CVV at Chris VanVleet.com. We said it earlier, but we will wrap up this episode with this quote that I love so much.

Trade your expectations for appreciation and you'll never be disappointed. Be great. Be grateful. Have an amazing weekend. We will see you on the next one for some more insight. We've got Buddy Matthews on Tuesday. Eric on Thursday. We'll see you right back here next week for those.

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