Mike Santana Wants To Be The Next TNA Champion, NXT Debut, Slammiversary, Shawn Michaels, Sobriety

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Chris Van Vliet

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4.9 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Mike Santana (@Santana_Proud) is a professional wrestler currently signed to TNA. He sits down with Chris Van Vliet in New York City to discuss his TNA return and how quickly it came together, not winning the World Championship at Slammiversary and speaking to the fans after, his WWE debut in NXT, getting to work with Shawn Michaels, his ultimate dream match, battling addiction, how close he came to signing with WWE back in 2019 and more!

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Fleet.
0:04.0	Ah, yes.
0:21.1	Welcome back, my friends, to another one here on Insight.
0:25.0	I'm CVV, Chris Van Fleet.
0:27.1	Thank you for hitting play on this episode.
0:29.0	And thank you for making Insight, the number one wrestling podcast on planet Earth.
0:34.5	Toss your phone up into the air right now and hit a drop kick on that follow button on
0:39.2	Spotify or Apple or wherever you're listening.
0:42.4	So excited to have Mike Santana back on the show.
0:45.9	He was on last March right after his time with AEW came to an end and he wasn't sure
0:51.2	what was next for him.
0:52.0	He was excited for what was next, but he wasn't sure what was next.
0:55.5	And my goodness, he's done a lot since then.
0:59.3	He returned to TNA in April, this time as a single star, not part of a tag team.
1:04.7	He also made his WWE debut in NXT, then wrestled in the main event of Slammiversary,
1:13.0	which was TNA's biggest show ever.
1:18.3	It was a triple threat match for the TNA World Championship, Mike Santana versus Joe Hendry versus Tric Williams.
1:20.9	And Mike said it himself.
1:23.0	It's not a matter of if he becomes the TNA world champion.
1:26.5	It's when.
1:28.9	And I couldn't agree more. It's just a matter of if he becomes the TNA world champion. It's when. And I couldn't agree more.
1:33.9	It's just a matter of time before that happens. There's so much to catch up on with Mike.
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