Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Fleet.

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Spotify or Apple or wherever you're listening right now today on the show it's CVV and mvp this is

actually the first time ever that i've had the pleasure of sitting down with MVP for a one-on-one interview like this. He was on the show earlier in the year, but that was with

the entire Hurt Syndicate. I also did a few shorter interviews with him seven and eight years

ago on my YouTube channel. We talk about those a little bit during this interview. It feels like a

lifetime ago that we did those. But this is our a little bit during this interview. It feels like a lifetime ago that we did

those. But this is our first time chatting like this. And man, what a conversation. What a career

MVP's had. What a life he's lived. And he has stories for days. A big part of his story was being

sentenced to 18 and a half years in prison. He served

nine and a half years of that time. And that shaped who he was. It's also how he got introduced

to wrestling through a corrections officer when he was spending time in prison. So we talk about

how he came up with the MVP character, then how he

got signed by WWE, how dusty roads helped him come up with that iconic entrance with the tunnel.

His time in WWE, his feud with Matt Hardy, then leaving WWE, going to Japan, going to TNA,

finding his way back to WWE in 2020, forming

the Hurt business. And Paul Haman really helping him to become the manager that he is now.

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