Santino Marella Is The Greatest Comedic Wrestler, The Cobra Origin Story, Winning "Miss WrestleMania" As Santina

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

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

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Santino Marella (@milanmiracle) is a professional wrestler known for his time in WWE and is currently signed to IMPACT Wrestling where he serves as the Director of Authority. He joins Chris Van Vliet at the Blue Wire Studios in Las Vegas to talk about his legendary WWE career, making his WWE debut at 31 years old, some of his most memorable moments like becoming Miss WrestleMania as Santina Marella, almost winning the Royal Rumble, setting the record for the fastest Royal Rumble elimination, how he came up with The Cobra finishing move, nearly beating Daniel Bryan at Elimination Chamber to win the WWE Championship, his daughter Bianca Carelli who wrestles in NXT as Arianna Grace, a possible dream match with Orange Cassidy 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 going.
0:01.3	Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Bleley.
0:07.9	So good to see you, my friends.
0:10.1	Welcome back to another audio adventure on Insight.
0:13.3	I'm CVV, Chris Van Fleet, and I know we picked up a lot of new listeners with that
0:17.2	Bully Ray episode last week.
0:18.8	So if you're new here, thank you. Take off your coat.
0:22.6	Stay a while. If you've been here for all 450 episodes, man, that's a big number.
0:29.2	450. Thank you if you've been here for all of those. Or if you've been here for one or two or three,
0:35.1	we could go through all the numbers. We're not going to, but just know that I appreciate you,
0:40.6	spending your time with us in the sea of all of the different podcast options.
0:45.2	I am so glad that you decide to choose insight.
0:49.5	So this conversation with Santino Morella was recorded the same day as that Billy Ray interview that I was talking about.
0:56.8	They were both in Las Vegas with Impact Wrestling for No Surrender and some TV tapings.
1:02.8	It was a packed schedule, but I was so glad they were able to squeeze this in, you know, squeeze a little insight into their day.
1:10.4	And this is such a good one.
1:12.4	Santino is a legend.
1:15.2	I mean, how can you not love this guy?
1:17.3	In my opinion, he is the all-time best comedic character in wrestling.
1:22.7	And he's doing amazing and hilarious work right now as the director of authority, the DOA of Impact Wrestling.
1:30.4	He's kind of like the general manager rule there.
1:32.5	But when you think of all the amazing Santino moments and we talk about a bunch of them during this interview, they all just bring a smile to your face.
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