Insight with Chris Van Vliet - AskCVV #85 - WrestleMania In New Orleans CANCELED, MITB Picks, Next AEW Champion, Joe Hendry Loses The TNA Championship

Episode Date: May 30, 2025

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Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Fleet. Happy Friday, my friends, and welcome back to another one here on Insight. I'm CVV. Chris Van Fleet, thank you for being a real one and for listening to an AskCTVV episode. I'll see all the real, real ones at the end of this episode. And thank you for making Insight the number one wrestling podcast on the planet. Hit us a moan drop on that follow button wherever you're listening. right now, I would hate for you to be one of those gibronies who just listens to the show,

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We've got a really big one. I don't want to, I'm not giving any hints this time. I've put my foot in my mouth one too many times by saying, oh yeah, this thing is going to happen. And then it doesn't happen. So we've got a really big guest on the way. I'm flying somewhere. I'll give one little hint.

I'm flying somewhere in the middle of the country. There we go. next week to record this you'll be seeing it and hearing it in like two-ish weeks we're one week away right now from insight live in los angeles i'll be announcing the guest later today it's a big one grab your tickets at cvvv ticks dot com there's also the option for the VIP tickets which includes a meet and greet with me after the show i would love to be able to hang out with you and chat a little bit of wrestling. So grab those tickets at CVV ticks.com. What a weekend for wrestling we just had? And we'll get into a lot of that on this episode. What did we think a Saturday night's main event?

I put a poll out asking you guys to grade it. By and large, the answer was it was a B. And I would agree with that. Solid B. I think that this did a lot to set up what we would see beyond this. But I don't, look, it's Saturday night's main event. I think people conflate. this with being a PLA and expecting major things to happen, perhaps a title change. I think that if we were being realistic, we went into that knowing that none of that type of stuff was going to happen. This was going to continue to push things forward into money in the bank and things that happen after that. Some real quick takeaways for me is, man, John Cena versus Ron Cena was so much fun. That is an entrance for the ages from our truth. And you could even see John Sina.

scene was like kind of biting his lip a little bit trying not to laugh at that that was so so entertaining another big takeaway is damien priest defeating drew mcintyre that was a brutal match and like we talked about it last week but those are both guys you could just plug into the main event picture plug into the world championship picture at any point in time those are guys that no matter who you put them in a match with they're going to over deliver and i love that about them and then we get I don't really know what happened in this main event. Yeah, Jay Uso defeats Logan Paul, but all this really did was just set up

but we're going to see it Money in the Bank. And I don't want to say it called it, but I called it. I said, this seems like a perfect spot for Cody Rhodes to come back and that's exactly what happened here. Although it's interesting that as we look at the money in the bank card as it stands right now, no world titles are on the line.

Like, obviously there's going to be some interesting stuff happening in both the women's and the men's money in the bank ladder matches and where that could end up falling into place later on. But this card is shaping up very interestingly as of right now. But we will get into all of that and more welcome, my friends, to ask CVV number 85, the Ochosynco, George Kiddell, Antonio Gates, and David Tyree edition. you know, the helmet catch had to throw that one in there. I remember watching that and be like, how did he? What?

How did that even happen? You have a question for next week for Ask CVV number 86. If you have a jersey that you would associate most with number 86, let me know. Send me an email CVV at Chris VanVleet.com or if you're listening on Spotify, leave it in the comments on Spotify or send it in on social media using that hashtag AskCV. We'll kick off this one with Andy Guadalupe. from Spotify who says, hey, Chris, what are your honest thoughts about WrestleMania 42 not being hosted in New Orleans next year? And the rumors about next year's mania being in Las Vegas again

and possibly frequently as the years go on. Now, I know that they said eventually down the road, New Orleans, we'll have a WrestleMania and even giving them money in the bank for next summer, but I don't know what this all means. So you're right. We'll look at the facts here that we have. Okay. Earlier this year in February, the Rock announced that WrestleMania 42 would be in New Orleans, April 11th and 12th. That has now been canceled. And I don't know if we'll ever get the full story behind this or what happened.nola.com when they reported this, they said it was WWE who canceled it. So this wasn't an issue with scheduling or anything else. This was WWE canceling this for whatever reason, we don't know.

And I don't know if we will know this. New Orleans is now getting money in the bank on August 29th, 2026, which is the latest of money in the bank has ever been held. And they are going to be getting a WrestleMania to be named later. Like if this is the NFL draft, a draft pick to be named later. So they're getting a WrestleMania at some point in the future. We don't know if that's two years from now, four years from now, or what the case is.

But they'll be getting money in the bank. and WrestleMania at some point in the future. I'm just curious what the whole reasoning is behind this. I've seen all the rumors online. I've seen the rumors that WrestleMania 42 is going to be back in Las Vegas for back-to-back years in Las Vegas. This would be the first time that WrestleMania has been in back-to-back host cities since Atlantic City for WrestleMania 4 and WrestleMania 5. Obviously, WrestleMania has been in cities within a few years from each other. Like off the top of my head here, I think about New Orleans had it for WrestleMania 30 and then 34.

Dallas, 32 and then 38. New Jersey had 29, then 35. But we're talking four to six years in between those. This is we back to back years. And if it does go to Las Vegas, I've also seen the rumors online that it would be a different date. it would move a weekend. It wouldn't be April 11th and 12th. It would move back one weekend. It would be now April 18th and 19th. This is obviously unprecedented. It was announced for a reason. It was announced like they were sure enough that there must have been a contract in place here.

It was announced that it was going to be happening in New Orleans. And I feel for the people who bought flights or who bought non-refundable hotels, there might be people that were putting on indie shows there and maybe they've lost their deposit, I feel for those people. I don't know how you can announce it if it's not 100% ready to go. Like I could see them, maybe they weren't sure. Maybe we're trying to lock some things down and then they don't announce WrestleMania until a month or two or three or four later. That would have been totally fine. I don't think anyone was expecting them to announce WrestleMania when they did. But if this wasn't locked and loaded and ready to go, what's the the reason for the announcement, or was it locked and loaded and ready to go? And then some pieces

change behind the scenes and they went, you know what? Let's not do New Orleans this year. Let's save that for another year, you know, down the line. And we'll figure out another city. There's been a lot of different cities that are floating out there. Vegas is at the top of that list. I still look forward to when, not if, when WrestleMania is in London. I think it's just a matter of time before that happens. Is it going to be WrestleMania 42? That'd be really nice. I don't know if that's going to be the case, though.

But I think one of the big things that people need to factor in when thinking about WrestleMania is this isn't just about the stadium that hosts it on Saturday and Sunday. WrestleMania is so much more than just the card on night one and the card on night two. This is almost a week-long event. Like, things really kick off around Wednesday. That's when they really start to kick into gear. And that includes Smackdown, NXT, Hall of Fame, Raw, W, WWE World, community events, other meet and greets.

It's so much more than just show up to the stadium on Saturday and show up to the stadium on Sunday. It's so much more to this. And this is coming from someone who has been now to 14 WrestleMania's. And obviously, I've been to a lot of different cities. for this. It's so much more than that. What really factors into Vegas being a great host city, not just for WrestleMania, but we also saw with the Super Bowl as well, is everything's kind of in one place. So when you're thinking about, where are we going to host Raw or Smackdown,

or where are we going to host Hall of Fame, where are we going to do the WWE world, it's all like within a few miles of each other. Like everything that happened in, Las Vegas last month for WrestleMania 41 was all on the strip, all of it, which made it so easy for, well, where are you going to stay? Well, we'll just stay on the strip because that's where the events are. Well, how are you going to get to stuff? Well, I'll either walk or I'll take an Uber. It's that close. And you think about some cities like, for example, when I went to WrestleMania 29 or 35 in New York, like stuff was really spread out. He went to NXT in Brooklyn. The wrestling conventions were in Manhattan. And then WrestleMania itself was in another state, was over in New Jersey.

And it was far. And it was so spread out. Same thing about L.A. Like that was a similar thing where stuff's just spread out. Vegas has everything right there and ready to go. I saw some tweets of some people saying that Vegas wants a redo because WrestleMania 41 wasn't a success. And I don't, know what the metrics are that those people are considering it not to be a success, but this was the largest gate ever for a WWE event, record-breaking numbers in viewership, merchandise sales, sponsorship revenue, and social media engagement. So it broke the record in all of those categories. Obviously, Las Vegas, WrestleMania was a success when you look at it financially. I think the other thing that people think about when it comes to WrestleMania is they want it to be in their city.

And I get it. There's like this hometown pride that comes along with it. I mean, look, you're looking at the guy who's always talking about WrestleMania 18. I mean, I get it, right? I talk about Rock Hogan a lot. It was so cool, just taking the train in from my parents' house and Pickering, taking the go train in, getting right off at Union Station, boom. Skydome, that's what it was called then. Skydome's right there. We'll walk right in. to WrestleMania. And I think that people, I often see this online. Man, that crowd was so quiet or that crowd sucked. Thinking that WrestleMania is like, oh man, that Vegas crowd for WrestleMania, they were really quiet. I was like, I always think about this, because whenever I'm at one of

these shows, whenever I met WrestleMania, I'm so fortunate to be able to chat with a bunch of people. And it seems like nobody is from the area. And I'm like, I wonder what the actual demographics are. of people who are going to the show, are going to WrestleMania because it's in their hometown and how many people travel in. So I looked it up. I looked it up and this is also from nola.com. So New Orleans, NOLA.com. And they were talking about WrestleMania 34. And they had an outside consulting firm do research on this. Three quarters of the attendees that went to WrestleMania 34. 75% were from outside of New Orleans. So 75% of the people who bought tickets and went to WrestleMania were not from New Orleans. And I understand there's a lot of events where it's like,

oh, well, that's just a four-hour drive. I'll drive in. So you would tick that box of not being from town. But you're still spending money on food there. You're getting a hotel there. You're not necessarily flying in. It's a road trip for you, but you're traveling in for it. I think there's a lot less people who are just getting into their own car and driving to WrestleMania than you would think. And that's why I looked up these numbers so we could have an actual number and look at it here. I get that people want to have WrestleMania in their hometown. And I think that there's only really a few dozen cities that could actually host WrestleMania well and they have the infrastructure to make it happen.

We've seen a lot of them happen already. And I think that a really good kind of test for can they handle WrestleMania is have they hosted a Super Bowl. And I think you can look at the list of cities that have held a Super Bowl. And there's a lot of repeat cities there because the NFL has some very specific rules about what cities can host a Super Bowl. Traditionally speaking, in order to host a Super Bowl, you have to have an average daily temperature above 50 degrees Fahrenheit on game day or have a dome. That's the general rules here. So you have to think about that when you look at the host cities for the Super Bowl. But I think that Vegas was a great host city. I was there. Everything was in one

spot. It was so easy to find hotel rooms, so easy to find nightlife, so easy to find great restaurants. I just think that doing it back to back, it's too soon. Like, I think we all kind of assume with just how well everything was ran in Las Vegas that it'd be back there at some point in time. I don't think any of us, especially after the announcement was made by the Rock in February, I don't think any of us thought that it'd be back the next year. So none of this is official. I think that that is very important to point out. All of this, it's all rumors right now. So we can speculate as much as we'd like. None of this is written in stone. None of this has been announced yet. Again, I think it needs to be reiterated. There is no official reason right now as to why it's not being held

in New Orleans, but I'm a little bummed out. I'm a little bummed out. I loved it being in New Orleans. I remember saying to one of my buddies when we were walking down Bourbon Street at WrestleMania 34, and I remember saying to him, you know, if they did WrestleMania in New Orleans every year, I wouldn't be upset about that. Like you've got, you've got great weather, good people, incredible food, another city where like stuff sucks super close and walkable. And this is not a dig. at any of the other cities that I've been to WrestleMania for. But some of them are just not, they're not walkable. They're not, they're not easy to navigate or the city is so big that, sure,

WrestleMania is there, but like, yeah, we've already got all these other things going on. So, yeah, it's just kind of this other event that's going on this weekend. And then you go to some cities where, like, this is the biggest thing that is happening, not just this weekend, not just this week, but like, this is. the biggest thing to happen this month or in these handful of months. And that's always so cool to see. And I love that. But we'll see what happens here. I'm not bummed that it's going back to Vegas. I'm quite enjoyed the Las Vegas WrestleMania. But it just feels a little soon. And I think another thing that we need to remember here is WrestleMania is not bestowed upon the city who, quote,

deserves it the most. Man, we haven't had a WrestleMania in 24 years. Speaking about Toronto here. It goes to the city who is willing to pay the highest bid. That's it. All of the host cities bid for this. So now that New Orleans is out of the mix for whatever reason that is, this now opens it back up, I would think, to all of the other cities to bid and figure out where the

host will be. But it sure feels like it's going to be back in Las Vegas. You guys know that when it comes to health and well-being, I'm always looking for an edge. And that's why I've been taking mitopure for months now. Because I want to be the healthiest version of myself for as long as possible. Like, I want to be in my 90s and still going on hikes or like still playing with the grandkids. Or I guess at that point in time, it might be great grandkids. Here's how this works.

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My question is a little complicated, but I'd like to know what you think about a possible obscure John Cena theory that I've been thinking about recently. If John continues to be a heel through his whole retirement run, do you think we could possibly see a potential Montreal screw job slash Wendy Richter situation so John doesn't take the title home

and, quote, ruin wrestling, especially if his final matches in Massachusetts, which would fit a screw job really well, considering Brett Hartz was in Montreal before he left for WCW. I would love to hear your thoughts on that and how you think his WWE career could end. Keep up the great work, your podcast make working through the week so much easier, peace and love,

to you and your family. Well, thank you for taking the time to write in. I still don't think John Sina wrestles the entire year as a heel. I also don't know how that baby face turn happens. Like turning heel, if you really think about this, like down to its fundamentals, it is a lot easier to turn heel than it is to become a baby face. Like, think about it. Like, becoming a heel is like you kick the good guy in the nuts. Turning heel is like, like in the match, you turn on your, your tag team partner who trusted you. Turning a heel is like you, the absolute biggest baby face, you turn on them or you just, you keep hitting them after the bell.

Like, that is turning a heel. Turning baby face is like, you rescue another baby face when they're getting beat down or, like, it's not as clear cut is what I'm saying. Like oftentimes, especially in modern day wrestling, what we see is like, a heel starts getting some baby face reactions. They start doing things that are a little less heel-like. And then all of a sudden you go, oh, look who they've aligned themselves with. Oh, like a great example right now is Roman Raines.

Like, I think if you were to really think about it, Roman Raines is a baby face right now. But what did he do to do that? Like, what did he, like, he didn't have a baby face turn. You can't have the moment in your mind. Like, he doesn't have the one specific moment like John Cena, kick and coat. Rhodes in the Nuts at elimination chamber. He doesn't have that. He has like, oh yeah, he did this, which was kind of a good guyish thing. He started getting some nice reactions. They started chanting his name, but there's not like a

definitive, like, line in the sand moment for turning baby face in the same way that there is for turning heel. So I don't know how it's going to go with John Sina. Like, I don't know if there's a specific moment where you're going to go, ah, it's over. The John Sina heel turn. is over. And I think maybe the telltale sign may be that his entrance has Titan Dron again, that he runs to the ring again. Like there'd be some things that John Sina would do once he's a babyface again that he's been doing right now or hasn't been doing right now as he's a heel. But I don't know how this goes. I like your theory. I just don't see it going that far. I still think that John Sina rounds out the year, finishes up his career the way that we knew

John Sina as the John Sina we all know and love, baby face John Sina. And like when you think about the Montreal Screwdraubor or the Wendy Richter situation, like those are those were like real life things. Like those were real life screw jobs. And I know what you're saying. I'm trying to follow along with what you're saying, especially since his, you said, especially since his final matches in Massachusetts, which would fit a screw job really well, considering Brett Hart's was in Montreal before he left for WCW.

Brett Hart's from Calgary. And yes, John Sine is from Massachusetts. This is going to be happening in his hometown. Or his, the closest place, he's from West Newbury, the closest place that he could have a show, be Boston. But Montreal to Calgary is like almost 2,000 miles away. So, like, they're not the same here. Like, that'd be the, that's like the same distance.

from Boston to Billings, Montana. So it's not like, it's not a similar situation. Yes, they were in Canada, but you are, when you're in Montreal, you are a long way away from being in Calgary. Could you imagine if the screw job, well, the Montreal screw job had happened in Calgary? Oh, my, they would have, they would have burned down the arena. That would have been a, like, it was bad enough that it was in Canada. but if it had happened in Calgary, my goodness,

would have been wild. But I think about this term ruin wrestling a lot. And yes, it means so much to so many different people. And I think that we're starting to see like, well, man, he's ruined wrestling because he didn't give us a new theme song. And when you turn heel, you're supposed to give us a new theme song. He ruined wrestling because he keeps cheating to win. He ruined wrestling because he keeps cheating to win.

He ruined wrestling because he's, he's wrestling in a boring manner. Like, there's so many, I could go down a rabbit hole of all the other things that this version of John Cena is doing, whether you like it or you don't. There seems to be a lot of respect that's attached to this. And we saw this at backlash. We saw it at Saturday Night's main event. There's some cheers during the match, but you're like, all right, he's a heel. We should boo him.

And we're booing him. Then the match ends. And then this great realization. comes to the crowd and they go, oh my gosh, that's the last time I'm going to see him wrestle live in my city. And then there's a like a round of applause. And we saw it at Saturday night's main event. Saturday night's main event.

Thank you, Sina Chan. And it's like, all right, well, where is it? Like he ruined wrestling during the match, but how can you not appreciate this man? I mean, come on. David on Spotify says, Hey, CVV, I just got back from watching Mission Impossible, the final reckoning.

And I want to know your thoughts. Personally, I thought it could use some more humor, but overall, it was a pretty good movie. Thank you for being awesome. Well, if you listened last week, I was so excited to see Mission Impossible. Final Reckoning on opening night. My wife surprised me with tickets for my birthday. What an amazing gift that was. I was so pumped for this.

My expectations were through the roof. And that is my own fault. Look, I wanted to be entertained and I was entertained. I agree with you. It was a pretty good movie. I went in, though, with the expectation that this thing was going to be great. Don't get me wrong. If I was reviewing this movie, and I am a film critic for the Critics Choice Association,

I vote on the Critics Choice Awards. If I was reviewing this movie, I would give it a positive review. I would give it like a seven and a half at a 10. It was good. But man, did I want it to be great? And I think the biggest problem about this, and don't worry, I'm not going to give you any spoilers here. So feel free to listen if you haven't seen the movie yet. I just think that this movie really carries the burden of trying to clean up the plot from Dead Reckoning.

And the plot was a little convoluted, is a nice word to describe it. And this movie kind of had to take this somewhat confusing plot from the last movie and continue it on, but also tie up some loose ends and make this all make sense. So I liked it, but I just think that you're right. It was missing a little bit of humor. There were also some strange edits in the movie where, like, you'd see one team talking about one idea, and then we'd cut to the other part of the team talking about the idea. And they were in different locations, but it kind of looked like they were in the same spot.

It was a little confusing the way they did that. There's also some sequences where Tom Cruise is just running. And look, we all love a good Tom Cruise running scene, whatever the movie is. But these weren't really explained. Like they were literally just cut shots of him running. Like in other movies, it's been like they've been chase scenes, where he's been running from like, it served a purpose in the movie. He's running from one place to another because of insert the reason.

here. I will say that that stunt where he's a wing walker was wild and my heart was racing. My wife wears one of the aura rings, like that tracks like your sleep and your heart rate. And she's like, I felt like my heart was racing the whole movie. And then we got in the car to drive home and she's like, look, my heart weight was elevated the entire time. Wild. So if I were to rate all eight Mission Impossible movies, I would put this like right in the middle. Like it's good. Don't get me wrong. It's not a bad movie. I don't want you to take what I'm saying and think that I didn't like the movie. I liked the movie. It was a good movie. I just think I wanted it to be a little bit more. So if I were to rate them, I would go fallout was my favorite. So that's Mission Impossible Six. And the halo jump there was insane. Oh my gosh. And they, when you think about it and like look behind the scenes and know that they shot that like a hundred times. because they had to shoot it at a very specific time of day. Crazy.

For that one shot. Ghost Protocol is number two for me. Rogue Nation. Ghost Protocol, by the way. The Burj Khalifa climb, wild. Rogue Nation, number three. I would go this movie, the Final Reckoning, number four. Dead Reckoning, Part 1, number five.

Mission Impossible 3 at number 6. the original Mission Impossible 7, or Mission Impossible at number 7. And I just think, like, the original Mission Impossible is great, but then when you see everything that came after it, it's like, oh, man, well,

that was a little subdued compared to what we've seen since. And then I think widely regarded as the worst one in the franchise, Mission Impossible 2 is eighth place for me. But if you haven't seen it, man, it's just a nice reminder that

Tom Cruise does the most. Tom Cruise is just, not only is he doing the stunts, which is a big central part of the marketing of this film, but he just brings intensity. He brings empathy to the character of Ethan Hunt. Like, you can tell he's been playing Ethan Hunt for almost 30 years.

Like he knows the character in and out. And man, he's good. And I can't wait to see what's next for Tom Cruise and whatever. his next movie's going to be. I'll be there probably watching that on opening night two. Not quite, 007. What a username on Spotify says, Hey there, CVV. I had an interesting movie slash wrestling hybrid two-parter for you. What is your favorite stunt from the Mission Impossible series? And what's your favorite wrestling high spot? For example, Edge and TLC2, Shane McMahon at SummerSlam, etc.

Man, this is a good one. Maybe we should do some more of these type of like wrestling movie crossovers. My favorite stunt from the Mission Impossible series, and there's been so many good ones. But I think it's going to be from Dead Reckoning, part one, with the motorcycle, the motorcycle off the cliff into a base jump. Like, oh, man. I remember seeing that preview for the first time. I can't remember what movie I went to see. but I remember seeing that preview in IMAX and being like, what the, what is this thing?

What is going on here? Because it was like a behind the scenes, like making of the scene. That was just crazy. And there's been so many, like Tom Cruise hanging off the side of the plane, climbing the Burj Khalifa, which that whole scene, that whole scene is just like, ghost protocol. Like, you just feel your heart drop in your stomach. Man. But I think it's it's the cliff jump. And there's also there's a part of that. I saw that one last year before the movie. When that movie came out, Dead Reckoning part one, I saw that on the

Paramount lot like a week before the movie came out. So like you saw it with a bunch of like very excited people. And the motorcycle goes off the cliff. And the way that the editor of the movie, it just goes silent. And then you hear the parachute open and the crowd, ah! Like the whole crowd is holding their breath and then like the parachute opens and like there's applause. And that was just such a cool thing to be part of. My favorite high spot. And it's been my favorite for a long time. It's Mick Foley getting thrown off hell in a cell because it was so unexpected. I think that now when we see a hell in a cell or we see money in the banks next week or when we have a cage match, you kind of expect. You start to look at some of the players,

some of the people who were in the match and you go, oh man, so-and-so's going to do something here. So-and-so's going to pull something out with that match. Like this had never been done before. No one had ever wrestled on top of hell in a cell. And that was very evident by how the cell just kept giving way. Like, that looked terrifying. Every step that Undertaker and Mick Foley took up there, the cage is just buckling under their weight. It's like, oh, this doesn't look so good. And then just out of nowhere. Like, there was no prep for this. There was no, like, punch. And then he's hanging on the side. Another punch. Oh, he's getting closer. Another punch. Oh, could he go over? This was just out of nowhere. Undertaker just grabs Foley and throws him off.

And like, that announced table must have looked so tiny from up there. And he hit it like perfectly. Like Mick Foley could not have hit that announced table more perfectly. But it was everything together. It's the call from JR. God is my witness. He's broken in half. All of it.

All of it put together makes it my favorite high spot. And this was also something that in the early days of the internet, but we're talking, you know, 98 when that happened. I remember downloading these like super low bitrate clips of it so that I could just have it ready to go on my computer so that if one of my friends ever said, well, don't you know wrestling's fake? I'd be like, well, do you have 11 seconds to watch this video that took me four hours to download? Yeah. Well, watch this.

Yeah, that's what I thought. Wrestling's not so fake after all, is it? And that was the moment for me then. That still is one of the moments now. I'm like, oh yeah, you think this thing's fake? Look at this. So very interesting question there from not quite 007. Michael McCarran on Facebook says,

who do you think will be the next AEW champion? Did you guys watch Double or Nothing? Double or nothing was fantastic. Easily AEW's best pay-per-view of this year. Top to bottom. Like every match delivered. It was really, really great. I loved watching that.

And again, what a weekend for wrestling. We just had so much the great wrestling. Trek Williams is now the TNA champion. Like, again, like, if you were to wake up from a coma and someone were to tell you, oh, yeah, a W.W.E superstar is the TNA champion. And by the way, the former TNA champion recently wrestled Randy Orton at WrestleMania. you'd be like, what? No, this can't be happening.

This is crazy. Crazy. I was convinced that going into the finals of the men's Owen Hart Foundation Cup tournament, I was convinced that Will Osprey was going to win. I knew this was going to be a great match between Hangman Adam Page and Will Osprey, but I just felt that Will Osprey was going to get the win, and the win meant that you got an AEW World Championship match. at all in. So it would be the winner of this versus the current AEW world champion, which is John Moxley.

I just from having Will Osprey on the show just a few months ago, he was putting this out into the world and he was talking about like, I want to be the guy. I want to be the guy in AEW. And being the guy means I'm the champion. I'm like, well, of course. Like for a lot of people, when you think about AEW, you think about Will Osprey. It makes perfect sense to me. And just the way he wrestles, I mean, it's no secret. I'm a huge Will Osprey fan, and I love the way that Will Osprey wrestles. I thought it was going to be Will Osprey.

I was surprised to see that it was Hangman Adam Page. And we've got to, that was an incredible match. And now we've got to match it all in where it's a former champion versus the current champion. And also a guy in John Moxley, who is the first ever four-time AEW world champion.

So that's going to be, it's going to be a heck of a match. Where does Will Osprey fall into things that all in now? That'll be very interesting to see. With Will Osprey not winning that match, I would have told you. If you would ask me this question last week, I would have said, well, Will Osprey's going to be the next champion. He's going to win the Owen Cup, Owen Heart Cup.

He's going to go on to All In. He's going to have his big moment, main event. It's going to be the AEW champion. I don't know where it goes now because I actually think that Osprey's out of the picture here, which like, so whoever, wins this, I want to answer your question directly. So I'm going to say it's Hangman. I think that John Moxley hasn't done a lot with this title reign. John Moxley has had some great title reigns. This unfortunately is not one of them. And I think that it's, it's due time to get the championship

off of John Moxley and give it to someone else. I will say this, though. If slash when, hangman wins the championship at all in, I think it's a relative. short rain because when you look at the AEW paperview schedule, Russell Dream's going to be a soon, like they haven't announced it yet, but it's going to be in October. It's likely going to be in Seattle, Tacoma. And then when you think of that area,

now that Brian Danielson is retired, when you think of that area, you think of Darby Allen. And I think that Darby Allen will be the champion after Russell Dream. Like that's where I see that trajectory going. But it'll be really interesting to see. And if you haven't watched Hangman versus Will Osprey yet from Double or Nothing, man, do yourself a favor and go check out that match this weekend. You will not be disappointed.

Carlos Alvarez on Facebook says, do you think WCW would still be around today if it wasn't for the Turner corporate executives? I love playing what ifs. And of course, yes, I think it would be very different if Turner run things, ran things in a different way. I also think that there was, and this doesn't get talked about nearly as often as it should. Eric Bischoff tried to buy WCW. When he found out that it was going under, he tried to buy it. He put the money together.

And he was like, how much is it going to be? Okay, yeah, I'll put the money together. He put the money together and tried to buy it. And they said no. and instead ended up selling it to what was WWF at the time. WCW's entire history would have been so different had that decision been made to sell it to Bischoff and allow Bischoff to continue to run it. With that said, we wouldn't have got a lot of the talent who came over from WCW.

That's the positive part of it. The negative part of it is we wouldn't have had some, there was some very strange slash sloppy booking with the alliance angle. And I think on paper, there were a lot of great dream matches, but it was pretty clear that Vince McMahon didn't really want to book too many WCW guys to win because it was like his way of like, well, I bought the competition. Now I'm going to bury their talent. And it was really clear, like just the way that think about some of WCW's biggest stars and

how they were booked. And we're talking about people that right out of the gate came into WWE. the way Buff Bagwell was booked, the way that Scott Steiner was booked, the way that even Goldberg was booked to a certain extent, Sting didn't even want to be part of this. Like, Sting didn't end up joining until like 10 plus years later. So there's a lot, like, it would have been so different. And I also think that there was like kind of a lull in wrestling that happened when there was no competition. Like it was exciting at first. Like, oh, man, can you believe that Goldberg's here?

Can you believe that, like, man, some of my favorites, like, Shane Helms, like, can you believe they're here? Like, we get to see some amazing matches. Ray Mysterio. Oh, my gosh, Booker T. But then there was, like, this lull, like, leading up into the ruthless aggression era.

There was, like, there were some things in there. It was like, huh, I think you needed the competition to make this better. And that's also, like, a testament to the era of wrestling. that we're in right now. Like competition fuels people like thinking outside of the box. And like when you don't have competition, you can just do whatever you want because if you want to watch wrestling, this is really the only option.

Like TNA was getting started, but they were on the pay-per-view model that time. You had to tune in on a Wednesday and pay $9.99 and I was one of those people who did it. But it didn't, it wasn't true competition. It was an alternative. but I just think that, yes, it would have looked so different. It would have looked a lot different if, like, WCW was being run by, it was just being run very corporately. And you can read all the books and you can watch all the documentaries about who and what killed WCW. But I would love to think about an alternate universe where Eric Bischoff was able to snatch it up. And then Eric Bischoff was able

to run it the way that he wanted to run it. And I think it would have been very interesting to see how that would have all gone. Big fig.285 on Instagram says, what's next for Joe Hendry? Well, if we say his name, he'll appear. Oh, could you imagine Joe Hendry just popped up right now. Hey, Chris, how you been? What's next for Joe Hendry? So, Joe Hendry is no longer the TNA champion. he lost the championship to Trick Williams. What a surprise that was again. It's crazy to think that a W.W.E. Superstar is the current TNA champion. But it cannot be understated how much Joe Hendry, how much attention Joe Hendry brought to the TNA

championship since he won it this year. He won it at Genesis from Nick Nemeth that was in January. Then he entered the Royal Rumble wearing the TNA championship. He obviously had that match with Randy Orton, WrestleMania Night 2. He's brought so much attention to the TNA championship. And I think brought a lot of fans over. Like, maybe they were lapsed fans.

Maybe you watched TNA during the heyday of like, 0607, 08,09. And he just hadn't watched. Maybe you kept up with it, but you hadn't watched in a while. I think he brought a lot of those fans back. And I also think he brought a lot of new fans in. Like Joe Hendry and his gimmick and his theme song,

is something that went well beyond just wrestling. Like, if you had even just a tiny interest in wrestling, you were bringing this out to your friends and out into the world. Like, it was so cool when there was that clip of that NFL player coming out in the field and he's like, hey, I want to show you something. Say his name and he appears. It's like, what? This is wild to see.

So amazing that Joe Hendry was able to bring that much. attention to the TNA championship. So cool to just see the opportunities that he got. And amazing to see his star continue to rise. He was first on insight last year. And it seemed like he was already like a fever pitch. Like things were already like just like going wild for him. That things were just like he was just firing on all cylinders. And here we are a year later. And things have happened that you wouldn't even think would be possible. So what's next for him? He hinted in our interview that just aired earlier this month, that he's in his contract year with TNA, that his contract is up. He didn't specifically say this year. He said it's,

it's up. Well, he said this year. I don't know if that means, is it up in 2025 or is it up within, like, the next 12 months. But his contract is up soon. I would be surprised if WWE doesn't sign Joe Hendry. And I think when you think about someone who has the abilities that he has, both in the ring and on the mic, and how over he is, he's someone who can slide right into the world title picture as soon as he gets signed. I mean, he could, he was in the NXT championship picture, but I think that you could slide him right into this, and it would make a ton of sense. on a personal note, I've had the pleasure of chatting with Joe many times. You've seen the two interviews on camera, but I've chatted with him many time behind the scenes

and all of this success just couldn't happen to a better guy. Like, he is passionate about this. He is a hardcore fan and he gets it. And like, there is no ego there. This seriously could not happen to a better guy, and I'm just so happy to see the success that he's having. Worth Telford on Facebook says, who is the most revealing wrestler on or off camera? There's been quite a few. I think that what comes to mind recently is carrying cross.

So go and check out the interview that I did with him towards the end of last year. and just the way that he tells stories and the way that he opens up about things, like the story he told about wanting to get into a real fight with Bobby Lashley backstage. Like that was just so cool and also just so unexpected. And on camera, you've seen the stuff that he's been doing. Like he's been really pushing this. He's been really pushing the boundaries of what it means to be a wrestler in 2025.

and more specifically, what it means to be a wrestler who's maybe not being booked the way that they want to be booked in 2025. And he has been wearing his heart on his sleeve, and it's been so incredible to see. So I would say it's him, and I will give a kind of runner-up answer and say, Dylan Postel, aka Hornswoggle, the stories that he tells. And then off camera, he's like, you get a real taste of who Dylan is from these interviews. Off camera, it's like that turned up even more if that's somehow possible. It's Dylan is, Dylan is the best.

But back to Cross for just a second. It is an absolute travesty that he is not in the men's money in the bank ladder match as of right now. I get that there's still two more spots and also the way the wrestling works, someone could get taken out, someone could legit get injured as well, and then it opens up so that someone else can be plugged into that spot. But as of right now, we've got in the men's match, Solisacoa, LA Knight, thank you for saying yeah with me, Penta and Seth Rollins, and there's two spots there. I, and we've got Smackdown tonight, we've got Raw, then we've got another Smackdown, so we've got some time for the qualifying matches, but my goodness.

with the amount of momentum that Carrying Cross has, just from, like, look at the reaction he gets when his music hits for a match on main event. Like, dude is over. And I'm not saying he needs to go to the money in the bank ladder match and win, but at least put him in the match. Like, the crowd is screaming for this. Like, this is what fans want to see. Give him that moment like LA Knight had where, like, when LA Knight, we're like, when LA Knight, was just white hot. Give him that moment where, like, he's climbing the ladder and you're like, ah, here we go. It's very obvious. Who's going to win? Oh, my gosh, he doesn't. But he had that moment. Like, it was in his hands. That's what we need for carrying cross. I'm not even saying he

needs to win the briefcase, although that would be incredible. And I think that that could be booked in a lot of very different, interesting ways. But if not carrying cross, then who? Is it Solo? Is it L.A. Knight? Yeah? Is it Penta? Seth Rollins, I feel like, especially with this faction with Paul Heyman and Braun Breaker and Bronson Reed, like, he's got a lot of backup there. And Seth Rollins, another guy who, like, you can put him into any match, any situation, any title picture to make sense on the women's side. And we'll get obviously way deeper into money to bank thoughts and predictions next week. Ask CVV number 86 will be airing on the day of the next Insight Live.

So that'll be fun. I hope to see you there as well. On the women's side, Alexa Bliss, Roxanne Perez, Ria Ripley, and Julia, and then two spots to be determined there. Alexa Bliss, kind of like carrying cross in a way that, like, her music hits and you're like that huge pop, huge crowd reaction. like a real hunger to see what's next for Alexa Bliss. If we were making a decision right now,

Alexa Bliss and Ria Ripley, they sure seem like the favorites to me. And Ria Ripley not holding gold right now, boy, that you can make a strong case for her being the money in the bank winner and then kind of just looming in the background. At any point in time, at any point in time, Ria Rippley could cash him.

But like I said, We'll talk more in depth about that stuff on next week's episode because money in the bank will be the next day. Arias underscore Alexander 31 on Instagram says, Hello, Chris. What is your favorite John Sina rivalry of all time and why? There's a lot of ways you could answer this. John Sina has had so many amazing feuds over his career, but for me, the one that stands out above the rest is C.M. Punk. Their feud, especially in 2011, I just loved how it blurred the lines between storyline and

reality. And that was, they were doing stuff at that time, which hadn't been done for a while. And that, of course, led up to the infamous pipe bomb and just like the huge reaction for their money in the bank match in 2011. One of the greatest matches, I think, I think that's John Cena's greatest match. That's one of the greatest matches of that decade, that era of WWE. And I just like, punk leaving and blowing the kiss and going through the crowd with the title. Like, that's it. That's it for me. And I think that it's just a matter of time before this gets revisited. And if this happens soonish, it's going to kind of be like that Randy Orton situation where like John's seen as a heel and CM Punk's,

the baby face here? Like, I think you could make an argument in 2011 that CM Punk wasn't so much a heel. He was more like an anti-hero, but like CM Punk now is like pretty much full-blown baby face. It speaks his mind, but I think he's a baby face and he certainly gets a baby face reaction. It'd be really interesting to see like a baby face CM Punk versus a heel John Cena because that's a match that's got to happen at some point in time. year. Maybe even John Cena's last match. I don't know. That'll be the thing I talk about, the thing all of us talk about for the next seven months, but it'll be very interesting to see how that all goes. But CM Punk, it's my answer to that one. Isaiah Stewart emailed this one.

Hey, CVV, real, real one here for about a year. Your conversations get me through delivery in this brutal Texas heat, so I thank you for that. Well, I thank you for listening, Isaiah. thank you for having me on in the delivery vehicle. I am also a fellow May birthday, May 13th, to be exact. I share a birthday with NWO member Dennis Rodman. So my question for Ask CVV number 85, the David Tyree edition, New York football Giants fan here, so is my wife. RVV is a huge Giants fan.

Who is your favorite randomly put together tag team? Personally, two of my favorites are RVD and Booker T. When they tagged together, I really enjoyed that. Also, their mashers. together entrance song was so interesting to hear to say the least. You're right. Much appreciated Isaiah. So I think it's so fun when you find two people who don't have something going on, especially when it's two main eventers, like Booker T and RVD, like in your example here, it's always fun when they don't have a real storyline going on. So let's put them together and

see what kind of magic we can make. And sometimes you get absolute lightning in a bottle. Booker T and Gold Dust. Right? Comedy gold, pun intended. It's the age-old story of like opposites attract. And Gold Dust was like hilarious. Booker T playing the straight man, but also being a little bit goofy with it.

Like there's nothing Booker T can't do. Like the real, like, and that was proof of it. Like you could put Booker T in there with anybody for any type of segment. Booker T said he loved it because, like, man, all we were doing was just like comedy segments. We weren't even wrestling that much. We were getting a ton of airtime, really memorable things. Like you think back to like the 7-Eleven and the slurpy. So many fun things.

So Booker T and Gold Dust, Kane and Daniel Bryan, team hell no. Again, just like opposites attract. And the funny thing there was like, this really brought a lot of the comedic side out of Kane. I don't know if people thought he had that in him. And we all kind of looked at Kane very differently after teaming with Daniel Brian loved it. And then I would be remiss to not mention the Rock and Sock connection. This Is Your Life segment was just brilliant.

And there's a reason why that is still, to this day, the highest rated segment in the history of Raw. and then also one of my favorite moments between McFoly and Rock is the when Mick Foley gets him with the it doesn't matter how does that make you feel and the rock pauses pauses some more while the rock and then it doesn't matter how it makes you feel and then Foley gets out of the ring and starts running circles around the ring chanting for himself Foley Foley. Brilliant. It's so good. So those are. those are three for me. There's so many others,

but for me, those are, those are my three favorites. Tim James on Spotify says, CVV, you delivered the best rock bottom I have ever seen by someone not named Dwayne.

How did you perfect this? Well, thank you. Thank you, Tim. That could have gone, that, I got lucky with how that played out. Like that, it couldn't have gone much

better than that. I don't, I don't, I didn't learn this when I went to wrestling school. I, this is just from being a fan for most of my adult, all of my adult life. This is really from being a big fan during the attitude era. So I had a group of friends when I was in high school that loved wrestling to various different degrees. Like some of my friends like Mark Teseghi or Will White, they were hardcore fans. Like we watched everything. Like, we watched everything. like raw in Canada would play live at 9 p.m. And then it would re-air at midnight and then would also play the next day at 4 p.m. I watched them all.

I didn't watch the entire midnight one because I was usually going to bed, but like this was 11th, 12th grade. I would watch a little bit of it before going to sleep. So like I watched, I would watch some of those episodes of Raw three times. And sometimes I would even tape them on VHS and watch them even more. Wild. And then we had other friends who were. you know, they were casual-ish fans.

Like they watched every other week or something like that. All of us would walk home from school together. And our friend Becca Sears lived like two houses away from the school. So I went to Pine Ridge Secondary School in Pickering, Ontario. And if you are familiar at all with Pickering, I'm talking to like three people right now. But my high school is at the end of Liverpool Road. Like the very, it's a dead end.

My school's there. You walk for like five-ish minutes and then the houses start kind of popping up. She was the second house down from the school. So, no, she was the first house down from the school. My friend Basil was the second house down from the school across the street. So as we would walk home, a lot of times we would stop off at her house and we'd hang out there for a bed. We'd watch TV. Or she had a trampoline in her backyard. So my friends and I, who were mega wrestling fans, we started to figure out how to do some wrestling moves on the trampoline, as one does when they're 15, 16 years old at a massive wrestling fan.

And some of the moves that we figured were like super easy to do, especially on a trampoline where you're not really taking a bump, you're bouncing, was like the choke slam was super easy. I think that was one of the first things that we did. I've got like, I've got photos from a disposable camera from that time. I should scan these and upload them. And I look like a, I think I weighed like 130 pounds or something. But there's choke slam, the stunner, the DDT and the rock bottom were like all of us could do those.

All of us could give them and all of us could take them. And because I was such a big rock fan and still am, the rock bottom kind of became my go to like, all right, here's a thing. Like go to throw like a clothes line or throw a punch and I'll catch it and I'll give you the rock bottom. That's where it began. I probably did, without any sort of hyperbole or exaggeration, I probably did a thousand rock bottoms on Becca Sears trampoline back then. When we ended up starting up the backyard wrestling federation that we had, the HCW, which was our group of friends and then also like another friend of a friend who went to a different high school and then he

brought his friends in. There was like 12 of us that were part of it. Interestingly enough, I didn't ever do the rock bottom in as a backyard wrestler. And I think it's just because we were wrestling on those, those like really thin blue gym mats. That's a tough bump to take. Although with that said, like, we did power. We did everything. We did power bombs.

We were doing like super power bombs. A lot of super, we were doing superplexes. We did a lot of moves that like were tough bumps. So I don't know. I don't know. My character never did the rock bottom. but when when I got invited by my good body horn swaggle Dylan when he invited me to be part of the ACW show two weeks ago in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and he said like you're going to get in there with

the ring. You're going to get in there with one of our heels in the ring and you're going to do the segment and you can do a move. I was like, well, it's the rock bottom then. And we we rehearsed it twice. Like we did the move twice. Like caught him, did. it. And the first time I was like, oh, let me just like pause for just a second to like look around. And then we did it. And then I was like, okay, can we just do that one more time? Just make sure that feels good. Cool. Did it. And that was it. Then three-ish hours later when the show started, it was like, I hope this thing works. But I plan to selfishly, I plan to selfishly show that clip to the rock the next time I interview him and I'm going to get him to rate my rock bottom and see what he thinks. And I think,

I think Dwayne will very quickly turn into the rock. He'll flick the switch and be like, oh, wow, you think you can do the rock bottom, huh? Wow. Okay. I'd rate that like a three. That would be a lie if he rated a three. But thank you, Tim, for the very nice words. Who knows when I could do another rock bottom in a ring? That was the first one I'd done. in a long, long time. So who knows? Hafer underscore 43 on Instagram says, I've listened to your podcast for over two years,

and I've listened from episode one till current. Oh my goodness. You went back all the way to one, and now you're listening all the way up to now. I feel like we need a whole new name for someone like you, because this is episode number 765. and if all of these episodes are around an hour, 765 hours of, whoa, that's a lot. Wow.

Thank you. My question for you for AskCTV is, how can you go into these interviews with wrestlers and not get extremely excited? Also, what's your favorite part about your job from Cam Hafer in Delaware? Well, Cam, I get super excited for every single one of these interviews. And I'm just excited about the possibilities that could come out of them. Like the ability to pick someone's brain who has been there and done it and experience things that I'll never experience. Like I'm not going to wrestle at WrestleMania.

And don't say, oh, never say never. No, let's be realistic here. I'm not going to wrestle at WrestleMania. So it's amazing to be able to hear these stories, to be able to hear stories about like what it was like when you got the call that you're going to be in. inducted in the Hall of Fame. Like, I get so excited to talk to everybody on the show. And maybe I'm not like, maybe it doesn't feel like it. Maybe I'm not like freaking out. But dude, just know that I am excited. And the day that I stopped being excited for these episodes is the day where it's like

something's got to change. My favorite part of the job is, is this. Like, I love these Ask CVV episodes. This started out as a thing where we're now on Ask CVV number 85. This started out as a thing of like, I was getting some questions from people and I was like, how can I help? A lot of them were like asking like, how do I start a podcast? Or how can I book better guests from my podcast or how can I grow my YouTube channel, whatever? That's kind of how this began. And it was like, well, how can I help? like I'm really fortunate that this has grown into what it is now. And if there's some things that I can learn from my experiences, and a lot of that is like what not to do, if you can learn from my mistakes and not make them yourself, I would love to

be able to impart that on you, impart that wisdom on you. That's where this began. And it is snowballed and turned into something completely different here. And I just appreciate you for being along, this ride every single Friday, me and you get to hang out like this. Whatever you're doing, I'm so grateful that you have given me this hour, whether you're working out or you're driving to work or you're working or whatever it is. Like, thank you. That's it. My favorite part is that we are doing this dang thing together and we're just getting started. John Michael Snyder

on Facebook says. So I was listening to an old podcast, and I'm curious, when does the Chris Van Vleet show turn into insight on Spotify for the first time? The thumbnail changes on February 7th, 2020 with the QT Marshall interview. However, it is still the CVV show. Thank you for all you do. Well, JMS, John Michael Snyder, thank you for your question. The exact day that it changed was January 18th, 2021. And it was an interview with Renee Paquette. Up until that point, every other episode was the Chris Van Bleach show. And the honest reason that it was the Chris Van Fleet show is because I didn't really have a

name for it. I was so worried for so long that, like my YouTube channel was continuing to grow with every single episode, but I was so worried that if I had a podcast, that it would cannibalize the audience that some people would go listen on audio instead of listening on video. And I'm like, well, I wanted the YouTube channel to keep growing. I didn't want to do anything that might adversely affect that. And I was convinced by enough people who had podcasts that it was worth at least just giving it a shot. And the very early iteration of the podcast, if you listen to episode one through 20-ish,

maybe more. It was really just me taking the audio from these interviews that I had done on YouTube and just throwing them up so that you didn't have to keep YouTube open the entire time so you could listen to these. Like I understood that like, if there was an interview with whoever it was

at that point in time, you had to keep YouTube open in order to listen to the entire interview. And I said, well, what if I could just take the audio from that, put it into a podcast feed, and then you wouldn't have to open up YouTube and play a YouTube video. That's how it began. And I'm like, well, what do I call this thing? Uh, I don't know.

My YouTube channel is called Chris Van Fleet. What an original name. I'll just call this the Chris Van Fleet show. And then I started to kind of realize the podcast started in June of 2019. And I started to realize about a year, year and a half in that the name was not a good representation of what the show was about. Like, the show is not about me. I am simply the vehicle through which conversations get to happen. Like I am the one who I am so grateful to be there sitting there. Like I'm the conduit for these interviews. I get to be the one who hears these conversations right there in the flesh and I love it. But they're not about me. This whole show is about shining the spotlight on whoever my guest is. So what's the show about? What's about insight?

It's about learning and gaining insight from these people who have been there and have done it. So I thought for a while about what should it be called because the Chris Van Fleet show is not the name I wanted to be. And we came up with a name that I think is very fitting for what the show is about, which is insight with your host, Chris Van Fleet. So if you go back January 18th, 2021, that's when it changed. It's now been insight for, wow, four and a half years. So it was only the Chris Van Vlead show for a year and a half, and it's been insight ever since. And for a lot of you that are listening, you didn't even know that it had another name, but there you go. And that, my friends, is our final question for this. Ask CVV number 85, the Ochosinko, George Kittle, Antonio Gates, and David Tyree edition.

Thank you for all of the great questions. If you've got a question for next week for Ask CVV number 86, send it in in the comments if you're listening on Spotify. Email me, CVV at chris fanavly.com or send it in on social media using that hashtag Ask CVV. I'm going to wrap this up with a quote from Muhammad Ali. Such a great quote. Don't count the days. Make the days count.

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