Christopher Daniels On His Retirement Match, FAKE Eye Injury, AEW, TNA, Higher Power, Tiffany Stratton

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

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🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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https://cvvtix.com - Get your tickets for INSIGHT LIVE in NYC with VIP Meet & Greet! Christopher Daniels (@facdaniels) is a retired professional wrestler currently signed to AEW where he is the head of Talent Relations. He sits down with Chris Van Vliet at West Coast Creative Studio in Hollywood, CA to discuss his retirement match against "Hangman" Adam Page, the terrifying spot during TNA Ultimate X where he almost died, competing in the Unbreakable 2005 triple threat match against Samoa Joe and AJ Styles, the rumor that he was going to be The Higher Power in WWE, the inspiration for the Best Moonsault Ever and his thoughts on Tiffany Stratton's version, the origin of Curry Man, the true story behind his gruesome eye injury in AEW and more!

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Fleet.
0:19.6	Here we go.
0:21.9	Welcome back to another one here on Insight.
0:24.8	I'm CBV, Chris Van Fleet, and in a sea of thousands upon thousands of wrestling
0:30.0	podcasts.
0:31.1	Thank you for hitting play on this one here today.
0:33.8	And thank you for making Insight the number one wrestling podcast on the planet.
0:38.9	Hit the best moonsault ever on that follow button on Apple or Spotify.
0:44.8	And wow, we are less than a month away from the next Insight Live.
0:48.1	So if you're going to be in the New York, New Jersey area for SummerSlam, I would love to see you there.
0:52.9	It's happening Friday, August 1st, before Smackdown.
0:56.6	So there's time to go to Insight Live and also Smackdown.
1:00.0	There's still a handful of VIP tickets left, or maybe we should be calling these
1:04.5	CVVIP tickets.
1:06.8	It includes a Q&A and asks CVV before the show and a meet and greet after the show.
1:12.4	Grab those tickets at CVVTix.com, CVVTIX.com.
1:17.7	Christopher Daniels is an absolute legend.
1:21.5	He's the only wrestler to compete in WCW, ECW, W-W, TNA, Ring of Honor, New Japan, and A-AW.
1:31.1	Amazing.
1:32.2	In January, he officially retired from the ring after an incredible 32-year career.
1:37.7	His final match was against Hangman Adam Page.
1:40.9	And when you think about Christopher Daniels career, when you think about TNA, he's one of the
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