Mark Nash: WWE's Newest Ring Announcer, "Never Seen 17", John Cena, Cody Rhodes

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Chris Van Vliet

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🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Get tickets for Insight LIVE in San Diego on November 28! https://cvvtix.com Mark Shunock (@MarkShunock) is a ring announcer for WWE performing under the name Mark Nash. He sits down with Chris Van Vliet in Las Vegas to discuss his journey from the theater stage to professional wrestling, playing Timon in "The Lion King" Broadway show, how he went from announcing Top Rank Boxing to WWE, providing the introductions for John Cena and Cody Rhodes, the origin of his WWE name, winning the Stanley Cup with the Las Vegas Golden Knights and more!

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Fleet.
0:20.0	And welcome back to another one here on Insight.
0:23.5	I'm CVV, Chris Van Fleet.
0:25.9	Thank you for hitting play on this episode.
0:27.9	And thank you for making Insight the number one wrestling podcast on the planet.
0:34.0	Hit a super kick on that follow button on Apple or Spotify or whatever the podcast app of your
0:40.2	listening pleasure is. I want to make sure you don't miss out on any new interviews every Tuesday
0:44.7	and Thursday and ask CVV every single Friday where I do my best to answer your burning
0:51.3	wrestling questions. We've got WWE's newest ring announcer on the show today.
0:57.4	You know him as Mark Nash.
0:59.4	He was the first one to announce John Cena's Never Seen 17.
1:04.7	His real name is Mark Chinook.
1:06.8	What a background he has.
1:08.1	And what a great conversation this was.
1:09.7	He also works as the inn arena host for the Las Vegas Golden Knights, the NHL team.
1:15.1	And before WWE, he was the ring announcer for top rank boxing, which is also where
1:20.3	Smackdown commentator Joe Tessitore used to work.
1:23.8	Before that, Mark was an actor, actually starred as Timoan in The Lion King Broadway show.
1:31.3	So lots to get into here, but man, he has been crushing it since he made a Smackdown debut in March.
1:38.4	And I've done a little ring announcing myself dating all the way back to when I lived in Toronto.
1:43.7	I was ring announcing for a few different indie companies there in like 2008, 2009, did some
1:49.6	guest spots in Cleveland and Miami. I recently did some ring announcing like, I guess two-ish
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