Samoa Joe's Incredible Career In TNA, AEW & WWE, Brock Lesnar, MJF Shove, "NOPE"

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

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4.9 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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https://cvvtix.com - Get your tickets for INSIGHT LIVE in NYC & Las Vegas with VIP Meet & Greet! Samoa Joe (@SamoaJoe) is a professional wrestler currently signed to AEW. He sits down with Chris Van Vliet at West Coast Creative Studio in Hollywood, CA to discuss his careers in ROH, TNA, WWE and now AEW, working with the likes of Kurt Angle and Brock Lesnar, the origin of the "nope" spot, the Muscle Buster that ended Tyson Kidd's career, shoving MJF in NXT and the full-circle moment that happened in AEW, having to fill for time as WrestleMania 37 was delayed due to rain, playing the role of Sweet Tooth in "Twisted Metal", his various voice acting roles and more!

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0:00.0	Chris Van Bleed.
0:05.0	Yeah.
0:06.0	And Bleed.
0:07.0	Ah, yes, welcome back to another one here on Inside.
0:24.3	I'm CVV.
0:25.7	Chris Van Fleet, thank you for being with us on this one.
0:29.9	And thank you for making Insight the number one wrestling podcast on the planet.
0:35.8	Hit a sidewalk slam on that follow button on the podcast app that you're
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1:06.3	We are starting off April with such a big one. This is an interview I've wanted to do for a long, long time.
1:13.9	Samoa Joe is on the show.
1:16.5	That wasn't supposed to rhyme, but I guess it did.
1:19.1	What a career he's had.
1:20.8	Ring of Otter, TNA, W, W, A,W.
1:24.7	It's amazing.
1:26.0	I remember the first time that I saw him wrestle and I couldn't believe a guy that
1:29.5	size was able to do the things that he was doing. And I've made it well known that I'm a big fan
1:36.3	of the mid-2000s TNA, especially the X-Division. And Joe is a huge part of that. Great to have him
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