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Fightful Wrestling Podcast with Sean Ross Sapp

Steve Maclin On Returning to Full Sail with TNA, Canada vs. USA, Charity Stair Climb and More!

Fightful Wrestling Podcast with Sean Ross Sapp

Fightful, Inc.

Sports, Wrestling

4.4585 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Joel Pearl speaks to Steve Maclin in an interview recorded before his International Title winSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/fightful-pro-wrestling-and-mma-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Hello, friends. We're back again. It's Joel Perlfeifle.com. It's six months later. So you, if that must mean, Steve Macklin and I meet up together and have a conversation. It's our good brother to brother moment when we actually get the city here and have conversations. This time we're in the back of the brewery here at Blood Brothers. Yeah, that's right. So we're in Northern Crown wrestling. The show just wrapped up. Steve McClain was in the main event taking on Von Vertigo for the Northern Crown Championship.

0:23.8

He didn't win, but hell the match. Listen, he lives up to the V guy as the crowd likes to chant here. And that's definitely somebody you guys got to keep an eye on is Von Vertigo. And just for him, I just found out that he has his visa now for the States. So for any of the promotions out there, I say book this kid because he is very good and very talented. As a Canadian, I'm legally obligated to agree with you on that. As a non-Canadian, I'm obligated to say whatever the hell I want because I'm American. That's fair. Which came out tonight at Northern Crown. and he also mentioned the fact that Vaughn was a protege of Josh

0:56.4

Alexander, someone that you are obviously very close with and Josh has now departed from TNA.

1:01.4

He had his last match.

1:03.1

Give me just to hear what your thoughts of now a TNA lists Josh Alexander or Josh Alexander

1:08.9

lists TNA in this case.

1:10.9

For me, it's, we're going to miss a big piece of the locker room and a good locker

1:15.3

room leader and also one of my best friends and if anything might want my best friend there.

1:20.7

So it's kind of cool to have built up the relationship we have, especially with feuding and

1:24.2

pushing for ideas to feud for over a year that didn't end up happening,

1:30.2

but we ended up getting to our feud, which wish we could have stretched out.

1:36.3

But he's a vital part of TNA because he's like the first person as I got there watching. That's a homegrown talent like an AJ Stiles.

1:39.6

And that to me is a big proponent for how the company needs to go forward,

1:45.5

but now it's time for people to step up myself.

1:48.4

I gladly will step up because anytime I'm given the opportunity

1:51.2

and you know it, I try to take the ball and run with it.

1:53.6

You have a Mike Santana, you have Joe Hendry, our champion.

1:56.4

We still have so much young talent like a Casey Navarro and Ace Austin,

2:02.3

Jason Hatch.

2:05.8

One day, hopefully, frigging Chris Bay is back.

2:11.5

I'm so happy to see that he's walking, but he's another person that I would love to see flourish.

2:12.0

And that's a story I want to see it completed.

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