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Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Masters On Bobby Lashley Using The Hurt Lock, Returning At The Royal Rumble, NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

Mental Health, Wrestling, Entrepreneurship, Sports, Business, Health & Fitness

4.94.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Chris Masters (@chrismasters310) is a professional wrestler known for his time in WWE and also in IMPACT Wrestling and NWA where he performs under the name Chris Adonis. He sits down with Chris Van Vliet in Hollywood, CA to talk about getting signed to WWE when he was 22 years old, his impressive bodybuilding physique, the people he looked up to as a kid including Mr. Perfect, Ultimate Warrior, Bret Hart and Ric Flair, the changes he has made both personally and professionally over the last 2 years, his pitch to make a return at the Royal Rumble, his thoughts on Bobby Lashley using the Hurt Lock and much more! For more information about Chris Van Vliet and INSIGHT go to: https://podcast.chrisvanvliet.com If you enjoyed this episode, could I ask you to please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcast/iTunes? It takes less than a minute and makes a huge difference in helping to spread the word about the show and also to convince some hard-to-get guests. Follow CVV on social media:  Instagram: instagram.com/ChrisVanVliet Twitter: twitter.com/ChrisVanVliet Facebook: facebook.com/ChrisVanVliet YouTube: youtube.com/ChrisVanVliet TikTok: tiktok.com/@Chris.VanVliet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

All systems are going.

0:01.3

Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Bluie!

0:08.2

Greetings and salutations, my friends.

0:11.3

Welcome back to another audio adventure on Insight.

0:13.9

I'm CVV, Chris Van Fleet.

0:16.2

I've said it before, and I will say it many, many more times.

0:23.4

I haven't met a Chris that I don't like.

0:28.8

And that holds so true with my friend Chris Masters. This is our third interview together.

0:35.4

You can check out our last one. It was in April of 2021. And he's just such a laid-back,

0:38.3

easy-going, California type of guy.

0:39.8

I love chatting with him.

0:44.8

And I think there's a lot of people that only remember Chris Masters from his two stints in WWE, and they really haven't seen anything that he's been up to since he left WWE in 2011.

0:51.3

And he's been up to a lot since then. We get into it during this conversation,

0:56.8

maybe possibly a run at the NWA World's Heavyweight Championship. He's been doing some

1:01.8

great stuff in NWA under the name Chris Adonis. He also pitches a really fascinated idea

1:08.6

for a return at the Royal Rumble. I mean, Bobby Lashley was the first person to break the Master Lock.

1:15.3

Bobby Lashley now uses that move.

1:17.7

He calls it the Hurt Lock, so maybe we could set up some sort of MasterLock versus Hurtlock type of thing.

1:25.7

Snap a screenshot.

1:27.2

Let us know that you're listening to this and tag us so we can share it out.

1:30.5

Chris Masters is at Chris Masters 310 on Instagram.

1:35.1

On Twitter, he's the alter ego.

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