Why James Storm Never Signed With WWE, Beer Money, America's Most Wanted, TNA Championship

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

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

4.9 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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James Storm (@JamesStormBrand) is an actor and professional wrestler best known for his time in TNA. He sits down with Chris Van Vliet at West Coast Creative Studio in Los Angeles to discuss his legendary TNA career, his partnerships with Chris Harris and Bobby Roode, becoming World Champion, being a part of the infamous blindfold steel cage match and reverse battle royal, the train track segment with Mickie James, why his time in WWE didn't turn into more, making the transition to acting, when he plans on retiring and more!

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Fleet.
0:20.0	All right, my friends.
0:21.6	Welcome back to another one here on Inside.
0:25.1	I'm CBV.
0:26.2	Chris Van Fleet.
0:27.4	Thank you for hit and play on this episode.
0:29.2	And thank you for making Insight the number one wrestling podcast on the planet.
0:34.9	Grab your phone right now and hit a power bomb on that follow button. Oh, but that's not
0:40.3	it. It doesn't stop there. Follow it up by hitting an elbow drop on that rating on Spotify or
0:46.4	that review on Apple. That helps so, so much. So thank you in advance for being one of the few people
0:53.6	who actually takes the time
0:55.0	to do that. Cowboy James Storm is on the show today. And when you think of TNA, James Storm is
1:02.4	one of the wrestlers that immediately comes to mind. I mean, he was on the very first show. It happened 23
1:08.9	years ago, almost to the day. It was June 19th, 2002, and what a career
1:14.9	he had in TNA. He went on to become a part of two of the best tag teams in TNA. America's
1:21.9	Most Wanted and Beer Money. Then as a single star, he beat Kurt Angle to become the TNA World Heavyweight Champion.
1:29.0	He had that brief stint in WWE, and we talk about that and why that didn't lead to something
1:34.9	more. He is still wrestling now, but he shifted a lot of his focus into acting. And he's had
1:41.5	quite a few roles in different movies, and different TV shows. And that's
1:46.4	actually what brought us together and connected us for this interview. I don't do a ton of acting,
1:51.4	but it's always so fun when you guys tag me online and you're like, hey, is that you in
1:55.1	criminal activities or is that you in the background of the love guru or what other movies I've been in?
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