Steve Blackman: The Lethal Weapon, Shane McMahon Fall, JBL Airport Fight, Hardcore Title, Brawl For All

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

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

4.9 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Steve Blackman is a retired professional wrestler best known for his time in WWE. He sits down with Chris Van Vliet in Harrisburg, PA to discuss being known as one of the toughest wrestlers in the locker room, becoming seriously ill and coming very close to dying before he signed with WWE, his match with Shane McMahon at SummerSlam 2000 and McMahon's fall, showing his comedic side with Al Snow as part of Head Cheese, the real story behind his fight with JBL at an airport in St. Louis, being a part of the infamous Brawl For All tournament, what he is doing now, whether a WWE return could be possible and more!

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Fleet.
0:19.3	And here we go.
0:22.5	Welcome back, my friends, to another one here on Insight.
0:25.9	I'm CBV, Chris Van Fleet.
0:28.0	Thank you for hitting play specifically on this episode.
0:32.3	And thank you for making Insight the number one wrestling podcast on the planet.
0:37.1	Hit that follow button with a Kendo
0:38.8	stick wherever you're listening. Yeah, a Kendo stick. And please, if you haven't done so already,
0:44.5	could you leave a rating on Spotify or a review on Apple Podcasts? I don't ask for much. In fact,
0:50.6	I don't ask for really anything ever. I don't have a Patreon or anything like that.
0:55.2	If you could just click a button.
0:57.4	If you could click the follow button and then click the rating, that's it.
1:01.5	In exchange for that, I will continue to line up conversations like this one that we have
1:06.1	for you today.
1:07.7	The lethal weapon, Steve Blackman, is on the show. And I can't stress enough how rare
1:14.4	an interview this is. From all of the research that I've done, I believe the last interview
1:19.5	that Steve Blackman did was in 2007, 18 years ago with our video. I can't believe we tracked him down for this.
1:29.1	What an attitude era legend.
1:30.9	What a legend just in general.
1:32.5	And one of the most requested guests we've ever had on the show.
1:35.9	And if you ask anybody that he ever worked with,
1:38.2	he's one of the toughest WWE superstars of all time.
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