Samantha Irvin Is Living Her Dream As A WWE Ring Announcer!

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

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

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Samantha Irvin (@samanthairvinwwe) is a singer and ring announcer with WWE. She joins Chris Van Vliet at the Blue Wire Studios in Las Vegas to talk about her original tryout to be a wrestler that lead to her becoming a WWE ring announcer, growing up as a wrestling fan, who her favorite wrestler was, how she met her fiancé Ricochet and their crazy first date, meeting Lilian Garcia and getting feedback from her, borrowing techniques from Howard Finkel, her approach to her ring announcing style, memorizing all of the superstar's stats, how her background as a musician influences her style, her preshow vocal warmups, why she announces Chelsea Green's name in the unique way she does, her memories of announcing the main event at WrestleMania 39 and much more! Sponsors: MIRACLE MADE: Upgrade your sleep with Miracle Made! Go to http://TryMiracle.com/CVV and use the code CVV to claim your FREE 3 PIECE TOWEL SET and SAVE over 40% OFF BLUECHEW: Use the code CVV to get your first month of BlueChew for FREE at http://bluechew.com BONCHARGE: Go to http://boncharge.com/CVV and use coupon code CVV to save 15% MYBOOKIE: Get a 50% welcome bonus when you use the code CVV and sign up at http://mybookie.ag MUDWTR: To get 15% off go to http://mudwtr.com/cvv and use the code CVV15 MANSCAPED - Get 20% off and free worldwide shipping with the code CVV at manscaped.com Quote I'm thinking about: Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. – Maria Robinson For more information about Chris 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 Bleley.
0:09.3	How, welcome back to another one here on Insight.
0:13.6	I'm CVV, Chris Van Fleet.
0:15.3	So good to have you with us.
0:16.9	And thank you, as always, for making Insight, one of the top wrestling podcasts in the world.
0:24.1	If it's your first time here, welcome.
0:26.8	Hope you stick around and make sure to hit that follow button with a big old stone cold stunner
0:32.1	so you don't miss out on any of the massive guests that we have coming up.
0:36.0	And man, there's been a lot of big guests over the last
0:39.2	month or so. Kurt Engle, Lance Storm, Rob Van Dam, Kathy Kelly, Xbox, Maven. And then coming up in the
0:48.3	next few weeks, we've got Hulk Hogan, Rick Flair, Natalia, Carrying Cross, Baron Corbyn, that's just to name a few.
0:59.2	And today's guest is someone who I've wanted to have on the show since I first heard her on
1:04.6	the mic in WWE.
1:06.9	Samantha Irvin just brings this unique energy and such a unique passion to what she does as a ring
1:14.6	announcer. And we get into her background as a singer and being a wrestling fan as a kid. And I will tell
1:22.1	you this, if you already love Samantha, you're going to love her so much more after this conversation. And,
1:31.1	you know, when I interviewed Lillian Garcia, I got her to do an intro for me. I also did it when I
1:37.3	talked to Justin Roberts and Mike Rome and Greg Hamilton. So yes, at some point during this episode, you are going to hear a big old
1:47.6	Samantha, Chris Van Vleach. If you enjoy this conversation, please share this with someone who you know
1:56.9	would love this and take a screenshot and tag us we'll share it out she's very active on
2:02.4	the social medias she's at samantha the bomb on twitter she says that was going to be her
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