Colt Cabana Opens Up: CM Punk Drama & Life on the Indies: PRIME TIME VAULT

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

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4.7 • 797 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Step back into Mooney’s Vault for another unforgettable deep dive! This time, we sit down with one of pro wrestling’s true innovators — Colt Cabana! From pioneering the wrestling podcast game with The Art of Wrestling to producing fan-favorite documentaries like Wrestling Road Diaries and 5 Dollar Wrestling, Colt breaks down the stories behind his career-defining work.

He opens up about his unique journey through independent wrestling, his time in Ring of Honor, and his eye-opening experience in WWE. Colt also addresses his complicated relationship with CM Punk and how it shaped different chapters of his career.

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0:00.0	This is a prime time with Sean Mooney production.
0:03.4	Let's get to our guest this week because Lord knows he has waited long enough.
0:08.9	Let's get to my conversation with Colt Cabana.
0:11.7	Ding, ding, ding.
0:15.9	Well, folks, I am really excited about our guests here this week on primetime,
0:20.0	not only because of the career he's had in the ring with a number of independent organizations, including the WWE.
0:27.2	And we will get to all that. But really, I have to tell you for other reasons, because I consider him one of the trailblazers in the business, someone who has never waited for opportunity to come to him, but rather relentlessly pursued it instead, all the while continuing to adapt along the way.
0:46.1	Welcome, Colt Cabana. Hey, Colt. Hey, Sean, did you say WWU was an independent?
0:51.9	No, no, I said, well, I said including, but I meant organization with WWE. But, you know, with everything happening in this world, maybe one day that's what they will be considered. I don't know. Oh, God, yeah. Fair enough, it's funny because I, you know, I work for Ring of Honor and everyone's like they call that the independence, but like, I don't know,
1:10.9	it's kind of owned by a giant mega corporation, so. That's true. So they, but, you know, they operate independently, I guess, so I guess we could call it that, right? I get. I appreciate the kind words, though, and I was a huge fan growing up of yours. This is so cool. We've met a couple of times and it's not going to be on your podcast.
1:29.6	Well, I'll tell you, and, um, uh, I was a huge fan growing up of yours. This is so cool. We've met a couple of times and it's not
1:28.2	to be on your podcast. Well, I'll tell you, and you have a podcast and you have been around.
1:34.6	I mean, like I mentioned Trailblazer, you were one of the first to do it. And at this point,
1:40.8	Colt, I know you've, I think you're over 400 episodes, the art of wrestling folks. I know a lot of the people that are probably listening to this podcast, certainly tune into yours and probably have for a long time. But it's, that is just amazing. Do you look back now and say, wow. I mean, how many years now have you been at it? Yeah, someone saying the Kevin Duckworth of a podcast, if you're going to call me the trailblazer.
2:02.4	Although he's passed though, so I wouldn't want to be him.
2:04.7	When not would I?
2:05.5	Yeah, it's over, it's, is it over eight years?
2:08.0	2010?
2:08.7	Wow.
2:09.3	Yeah.
2:10.2	June of 2019 started.
2:12.3	Yeah.
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