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

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

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

4.9 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2021

⏱️ 70 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

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0:56.9	In-person conversation. Fred Rosser lives in the LA areas, so it was amazing to have him
1:03.2	stop by my apartment for this. When you see the video on YouTube, yeah, that's my apartment
1:09.3	behind us. I guess, actually, more specifically, that's my kitchen behind us. My kitchen that
1:14.5	I just cleaned up so it would be in the background of this interview. That is what is behind
1:18.5	us here. But so great to be able to catch up with Fred. He's doing big things in New
1:23.8	Japan strong and so great to be able to share this time with him and catch up with him
1:28.0	because a lot has changed since our last interview. He's come a long way since being
1:33.9	Darren Young in WWE. Fred Rosser is his real name and we get into that during this conversation.
1:40.1	But he's so proud of that. Fred is on social media at real. Fred Rosser, you can find me
1:46.2	at Chris Van Vleet. I'm also on TikTok. Chris.VamVleet, apparently another guy named Chris
1:52.0	Van Vleet took that name before me, so I am Chris.VamVleet on there. Our fan of the week is
2:00.7	done digitals with a Z on the end. Digitals are a Z for everyone else in the rest of the
2:07.1	world. Well deserved. Five stars. I never mind helping out with reviews, especially when
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