Mike Bailey Explains His SPEEDBALL Nickname, Signing With IMPACT Wrestling, Josh Alexander

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

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

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Speedball Mike Bailey (@speedballbailey) is a professional wrestler currently signed to IMPACT Wrestling. He joins Chris Van Vliet to talk about growing up in Canada, French being his first language and learning to speak English, how he got his "Speedball" nickname, his dream X Division opponents, his issues crossing the Canada/US border, how he turned the negative of not being able to enter the United States into a positive, wrestling fellow Canadian Josh Alexander, his wife Veda Scott and much more! For more information about Chris Van Vliet and INSIGHT go to: https://podcast.chrisvanvliet.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. 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 gathered.
0:01.3	Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Blea.
0:07.7	How the heck are you, my friends?
0:10.2	Merry Christmas.
0:11.1	Happy holidays.
0:12.5	Welcome back to another audio adventure on Insight.
0:15.2	I am CVV Chris Van Fleet.
0:18.0	And it's just hitting me now that this is the first episode I've ever recorded
0:22.6	as a married man. Yeah, you may have seen on social media that on Saturday, my fiance,
0:29.4	well, my former fiance, my now wife, Rachel and I got married. And a lot of you have been
0:35.8	asking about this. And I agree. I think it's time we've got to
0:40.1	have Rachel on the show. So it seems fitting that it's the holiday season. We're wrapping up
0:46.5	2022. A very big year in my personal life. I'm sure a big year for you as well. So we're wrapping
0:52.5	up 2022. I think she needs to be a guest
0:54.9	before the year is over. So keep an eye out for that. We got what a little over a week before the
1:02.5	year is over. So keep an eye out for that. In the meantime, though, Speedball Mike Bailey has had an
1:09.8	incredible 2022. Perfect timing to have him on now, because
1:13.8	did you see that match he just had with Josh Alexander on Impact? It was like just a few minutes
1:19.4	short of an Iron Man match, but my goodness, we might as well call it an Iron Man match. So,
1:25.2	so good. And just great to dig into who he is and what he's all about.
1:31.2	So I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I do with Simpson's references thrown in there,
1:37.1	some little bit of French being spoken, because obviously that's his first language. And I speak like
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