Omos: The Man Behind WWE's Nigerian Giant, His Goal To Be WWE Champion, Brock Lesnar Match

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

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

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Omos (@thegiantomos) is a WWE Superstar and former college basketball player. He is also the tallest wrestler on WWE's active roster at 7'3". He joins Chris Van Vliet to talk about how he got discovered by WWE, the original WWE tryout that he was supposed to have in 2014 and why it didn't come to fruition, his match with Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania 39, making Brock Lesnar look small in the ring, what he learned from working so closely with AJ Styles, the difficulties of flying on a plane at his height, his match against Seth Rollins at Backlash, his goal to become WWE Champion and much more! For more information about CVV 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.
0:01.4	Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Blea.
0:08.7	Oh, it is so good to see you, my friends.
0:11.3	Welcome back to another installment of the podcast known as Insight with Chris Van Fleet.
0:16.9	Hey, that's me.
0:17.5	I'm Chris Van Fleet.
0:18.7	And a few weeks ago, when I said that we had a big
0:21.4	interview coming up, I meant a big giant interview. And it was so good here to be able to get
0:29.5	to know the man behind the Nigerian giant Omas. He's such a laid-back guy. And one thing that
0:36.9	you're really going to get from this conversation is that he wants to work hard to be the best that he can possibly be in the WW.
0:44.9	And when you think of some of the other big men in WWE history, I mean, we're talking about the Undertaker, Andre, Kane, Big Show, Kevin Nash.
0:54.4	And it certainly seems like WWE is giving Amos all of the tools to eventually be part of that conversation.
1:02.7	And I asked him, what are your goals for the next five or ten years from now?
1:06.5	And he didn't hesitate to say that he wants to be the WWE champion.
1:11.5	Great conversation with him.
1:12.9	I hope that you enjoy it.
1:14.0	Take a screenshot.
1:15.3	Let us know what you think of this episode and tag us.
1:17.7	He's at the Giant Omas.
1:20.5	I'm at Chris Van Fleet.
1:22.0	And if you're one of the like 60% of people who according to the analytics to the show, but don't actually follow the show,
1:31.4	please just take a second right now, to click, follow wherever you're listening, because
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