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Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Fred Rosser (Darren Young) On NJPW Strong, Prime Time Players, Block The Hate

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

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

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Fred Rosser (@realfredrosser) is a professional wrestler currently signed with New Japan Pro Wrestling Strong and is known for his time in WWE as Darren Young. He joins Chris Van Vliet at his home in Los Angeles to talk about working for NJPW Strong, his dream opponents, working for WWE under the name Darren Young, his tag team with Titus O'Neil called "The Prime Time Players", his "Block The Hate" movement, being the first active pro wrestler to come out as gay, how that has changed his career and much more! For more information on NJPW visit http://njpw1972.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. For more information about CVV and INSIGHT go to: https://podcast.chrisvanvliet.com 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.

0:01.4

Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Blit!

0:08.2

Greetings and salutations, my friends.

0:11.5

Welcome back to another audio adventure on Insight.

0:14.5

I'm CVV, Chris Van Bleet.

0:16.0

Thank you so much for being with us on another one.

0:18.6

And oh yes.

0:19.8

Oh yes.

0:24.8

Another in-person conversation. I'm so glad that we're able to say that much more often these days an in-person conversation fred rosser lives in the

0:31.9

l a area so it was amazing to have him stop by my apartment for this and when you see the video in

0:37.0

youtube yeah that's my apartment behind this. And when you see the video on YouTube, yeah, that's my

0:38.9

apartment behind us. I guess, actually, more specifically, that's my kitchen behind us. My kitchen

0:44.8

that I just cleaned up so it would be in the background of this interview. That is what is behind us

0:49.1

here. But so great to be able to catch up with Fred. He's doing big things in New Japan Strong.

0:55.5

And so great to be able to share this time with him and catch up with him because a lot has changed since our last interview.

1:02.3

And he's come a long way since being Darren Young in WW.

1:06.7

Fred Rosser is his real name.

1:08.1

And we get into that during this conversation.

1:10.4

But he's so proud of that.

1:12.4

Fred is on social media at real Fred Rosser.

1:16.1

You can find me at Chris Van Fleet.

1:18.3

I'm also on TikTok, Chris Dot Van Fleet.

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