Mike Santana Interview - Following the Plan to the Main Event of TNA
Notsam Wrestling
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🗓️ 18 July 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Listen to Notsam Wrestling LIVE Mon-Thurs from 12-2pm et on SiriusXM Pro Wrestling Nation
Sam Roberts talks to Mike Santana about getting back to TNA, leaving LAX and AEW, his time in NXT and relationship with Shawn Michaels, getting clean, and more
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| 0:00.0 | This is amazing. In studio, Mike Santana, it's a long time coming, man. Welcome. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Thanks for having me. Of course. We've been talking about doing this for a very long time. And I feel like these things have a way of working themselves out where the right time is the right time. And man, it feels like the right time for you. Yeah, for sure, for sure. I'm a firm believer in, you know, everything happens when it's meant to happen. Right. So here we are. Man, I was so happy. I think it was Battleground, the NXT show that you popped up on just in that backstate, not announced, backstage promo. And like, just as just as you know somebody that's |
| 0:37.7 | been a fan |
| 0:38.2 | of yours |
| 0:38.4 | followed your career I'm like yeah there he is like yes here we go yeah to watch it and I mean very quickly go from this promo because I was going I love this and then I go let's see what the NXT people react because as you know there's a lot of WWE NXT fans. |
| 0:34.7 | Of course. |
| 0:35.4 | That's all they watch. |
| 0:36.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:36.7 | And if you're not on |
| 0:37.3 | WWE, if you're not on |
| 0:38.2 | NXT, it's like, react because as you know there's a lot of wwee nxte fans that's all they watch yeah yeah yeah |
| 0:56.1 | yeah yeah you're not on w w if you're not on nxte it's like well we'll get to know you but we don't know |
| 1:00.0 | who you are and to watch after battleground like so quickly the orlando crowd like the nxte |
| 1:08.6 | fans like kind of instantly took to you it was a good feeling |
| 1:13.3 | it was a good feeling it was a good it was a huge eye opener like I guess it was that moment of like |
| 1:19.3 | oh I'm doing something right yeah like but like you said going back to the fans like they're so |
| 1:24.6 | loyal right yeah and some of them just watch that. |
| 1:27.9 | So to have this, I guess, connection right when I walk in the door is I appreciate it. |
| 1:34.6 | Well, I think it's also something where, like, I mean, you grew up a super fan, right? |
| 1:40.0 | Yeah, absolutely. |
| 1:41.3 | So when we're growing up, a lot of these characters and the ones that we love were so |
| 1:46.3 | over the top and such characters. |
| 1:49.4 | And you, like, you're so rooted in just who you are as a human being. |
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