Claudio Castagnoli On Leaving WWE for AEW, Who The Strongest Wrestler Is, Winning The Ring Of Honor World Championship

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

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

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🗓️ 13 September 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Claudio Castagnoli (@claudiocsro) is a professional wrestling signed to AEW and Ring of Honor and previously worked for WWE under the name Cesaro. He joins Chris Van Vliet for a special live interview at Starrcast in Nashville. He talks about his decision to leave WWE and sign with AEW, what winning the Ring of Honor World Championship means to him, what happened to his partnership with Paul Heyman, who the strongest wrestlers in WWE are, Vince McMahon's criticism of him lacking charisma and the "it factor", his love of coffee, his match with CM Punk that was supposed to happen the night that CM Punk walked out of WWE, winning the Tag Team Championships with Tyson Kidd and also Sheamus, his current workout routine 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 CVV CLIPS: youtube.com/CVVCLIPS 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 right, my friends, welcome to a very special episode of Insight with Chris Van Fleet.
0:06.5	I am CBV Chris Fanfleet, and this was a live interview with Claudio Castignoli that we did in front of a lot of you at Starcast in Nashville.
0:17.7	And we've done a few episodes in front of a crowd, but never a crowd this big.
0:23.7	And it was extra special because this was Claudio's first interview that he did since leaving
0:29.4	WW and signing with AEW. And to put things in context a little bit for the timing here,
0:36.1	he had just won the Ring of Honor
0:38.6	championship a week before this interview. So we covered a lot here. We chatted for about
0:44.2	45 minutes. Then we opened it up to Q&A from the crowd with some really, really interesting
0:49.3	questions. So please, if you enjoy this episode, share it with a friend.
0:56.6	Make sure you're following wherever you're listening right now.
1:02.4	And snap a screenshot, share it on social media, tag us so we can share it out as well.
1:06.8	Claudio is at Claudio C-S-R-O.
1:11.7	I'm at Chris Van Fleet, also tag at Starcast Events.
1:16.3	So maybe we can do another one of these at the next Starcast event.
1:17.9	So let's do this. We're going to take you right now to Starcast in Nashville with our special guest, Claudio, Castignoli.
1:27.1	All systems are going.
1:28.4	Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Bluley!
1:36.9	Starcast!
1:40.0	I'm going to stand out here for a second.
1:43.0	Starcast, let, hear you guys.
1:48.9	Welcome to a live audio adventure here on Insight
1:53.2	with Chris Van Fleet.
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