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Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Christian Cage Is Doing The Best Work Of His Career! AEW, Coming Out Of Retirement, Adam Copeland

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

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

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Christian Cage (@christian4peeps) is a professional wrestler signed to AEW. He is also known for his career in WWE where he was simply known as Christian and was part of a legendary tag team with Edge (Adam Copeland). He sits down with Chris Van Vliet at West Coast Creative Studio in Hollywood to talk about his legendary career that started in 1995, getting into the best shape of his life at 50 and why he created Pure Plank with Adam Copeland, doing the best work of his career right now in AEW, pushing the envelope with his patriarchy character, how he was able to come out of retirement after 7 years, his WWE return in 2020, being part of the Royal Rumble in 2021, signing with AEW a month later, the reaction to his debut, being part of the first ever TLC match, memories of his WrestleMania 18 match against DDP in Toronto, what made him leave WWE for TNA in 2005, proving himself as a singles wrestler, how much longer he wants to wrestle before retiring and much more! Quote I'm thinking about: “Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.” - Roy T. Bennett Sponsors: PURE PLANK: The future of core fitness! Use the code CVV to save 10% on Pure Plank which was designed by Adam Copeland & Christian: https://gopureplank.com/ PRIZEPICKS: Download the app today and use code INSIGHT for a first deposit match up to $100! BONCHARGE: Use the code CVV to save 15% off your infrared sauna blanket at https://boncharge.com/cvv BLUECHEW: Use the code INSIGHT to get your first month of BlueChew for FREE at http://bluechew.com ROCKET MONEY: Join Rocket Money today and experience financial freedom: https://rocketmoney.com/cvv BETTERHELP: Get 10% off your first month with the code INSIGHT at http://betterhelp.com/insight PLUNGE: Get $150 off your Plunge with the coupon code CVV150 at http://plunge.com For more information about Chris 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

Chris Benfleet.

0:05.0

Yeah.

0:06.0

Benfleet.

0:10.0

It's Inside with Chris Van Fleet.

0:19.0

Hello, my friends.

0:21.1

Welcome back to another one here on Insight.

0:23.8

I am CVV, Chris Van Fleet.

0:26.7

Good to see you here.

0:27.9

Thanks for being with us.

0:29.1

And thank you, as always, for helping to make Insight

0:32.2

one of the top wrestling podcasts on the planet.

0:36.4

Before we go ahead here any further,, could you just do me one quick

0:40.5

little favor? Could you hit that follow button wherever you're listening to this right now?

0:45.9

Thank you so much. That is, that's so helpful that you did that. I appreciate you. We had Adam

0:51.2

Copeland, aka Edge, on the show a few weeks ago. That was actually our most downloaded episode in the month of May.

0:57.7

And May was the biggest month that we've ever had for the podcast.

1:01.2

That's going to be one of the biggest episodes of the year, I think, for sure.

1:05.8

And here we are, just a few weeks later with his longtime tag team partner and recent rival in AEW.

1:13.7

Christian Cage joining us in the studio.

1:17.0

You heard Adam talk about how he got into the best shape of his life with Pure Plank,

1:21.1

and he created that with Christian.

1:23.2

And now you're going to hear a very similar story from Christian.

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