Maven on The Undertaker, Tough Enough, Theme Music and What's He's Doing Now after WWE

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

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

4.9 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Maven Huffman is a former WWE Superstar and the winner of the first season of "Tough Enough" on MTV. He sits down with Chris Van Vliet at The Legends of Hamburg Fan Fest in Hamburg, PA to talk about his time in WWE, being a school teacher before he submitted an audition tape for Tough Enough, how he knew he was going to win the show, eliminating The Undertaker from the 2002 Royal Rumble and the chair shot that followed, why he never liked his entrance theme, working as a host for HSN, his run-in with the law, going to rehab, what he's up to now and much more! 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 Chris and INSIGHT go to: https://chrisvanvliet.com Follow CVV on social media: Instagram: instagram.com/ChrisVanVliet Twitter: twitter.com/ChrisVanVliet Facebook: facebook.com/ChrisVanVliet YouTube: youtube.com/ChrisVanVliet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Chris Long, the host of American Prodegies, becoming great.
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0:34.8	Here we go, my friends.
0:37.5	Welcome back to another audio adventure here on Insight.
0:41.0	I'm Chris Fanfly, so good to have you with us for this one.
0:43.5	So good to be able to sit down in person with Maven for this conversation.
0:48.6	He doesn't know a lot of interviews, so it was such a pleasure to be able to join him
0:52.8	and look him in the eye, shake his hand, and talk about his journey from school teacher
0:58.6	to tough enough winner, to WWE Superstar, to now life after WWE, and of course everything
1:05.4	in between.
1:06.6	We did this at the Legends of Hamburg Fanfest in Hamburg, Pennsylvania last weekend.
1:10.6	It was so awesome to be able to meet and talk with so many of you guys who listened to
1:15.5	the show, so thank you for stopping by and saying hello there.
1:19.2	Speaking of that, I'm going to be in Fort Worth, Texas at the independent wrestling Expo
1:23.9	on August 7th.
1:26.0	So if you live in and around the Fort Worth or Dallas area, or if you're able to travel
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