Colt Cabana Talks Comedy In WWE, His WWE Run, Vince McMahon, New Documentary, Comedy Show This Week

I recently caught up with wrestling star and podcasting pioneer Colt Cabana. In part one of the interview below, Cabana talked about his new Wrestling Road Diaries 3 documentary, his podcast, growing up a “die-hard” wrestling fan, his comedy show in Chicago this Wednesday and more.

Make sure to check back next week for the second and final part of the interview, where Colt discussed his ROH run, being contacted by TNA, his WWE tryout as an announcer, Jim Cornette firing him from ROH, his documentary and more.

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Wrestling fans are obviously very familiar with you with your runs in ROH, your time in WWE, and you’re kind of a pioneer when it comes to wrestling podcasts with The Art Of Wrestling. How is the podcast doing after all these years? You’ve recently hit 300 episodes, right?

“I like, if they know me, I don’t think they know me from my run in WWE. Although, it is funny every now and again, someone will be like, ‘yeah, that’s how I,’ like, ‘Scotty Goldman was the first time I saw you’ or there’s sometime, like, there are these weird kids that were really young and they only watched SmackDown. This happened to me only once, I think, I was at an indie show and he was like 16, so he he must have been 8 or whatever. And he didn’t know who I was, but then I told him Scotty Goldman, and he was like, ‘I remember you!’ I was like, ‘yeah right.’ He’s like, ‘no, you did that promo where you had the paper bag with Great Khali.’ I was like, ‘my God!’ Yeah, that was weird! So yeah, for some instances it does happen.

“But yeah, I started the podcast in 2010. Over 300 episodes now. It [has] been six-and-a-half years and I was the first wrestler to wrestler podcast with a long form kind of interviews or conversations or whatever you want to call them. So I had a great start. I took the concept myself, I took it from the comedy world and comedy podcasts around 2009, 2010 were starting to become big, something that I thought would really, I just thought would work so well with wrestling because comedians were talking to comedians and it wasn’t weird and all of a sudden, you get all this new insight than you had never gotten before. And it was like they were talking shop. It was like you were in the back of the green room and you were allowed to listen to this green room conversation and that’s what was happening in the locker room for me. And especially, it was like I got fired from WWE. I had all these crazy experiences working with all these guys and I came back to the indies and I came back to all these friends of mine I had and I would tell them stories and we’d talk about what we’re doing with our life and how we’re… I don’t know. There’s just a lot of emotions are running, so to put that on audio at the time, and then, I assumed that it would happen, and it did, it took about four years, I’d say, for ‘Stone Cold’ to then jump on board. And then, once he did, I think the floodgates kind of opened.

“So, for me, personally, I still have a great fanbase and there [are] people who have been with me since the beginning or new people, maybe after, there [are] a bunch of fun episodes that I did. I think the [CM] Punk one kind of opened up some eyes and ears to people seeing what my show was all about, and what I was about. And, but there are other ones before that too, that are just different, weird milestones. To me, it has kind of always been more about quality as opposed to quantity. Or I’m not trying to get as many, many, many, many, many ears on it. I just want people who really like me and get the view and the vision I’m coming from and those people, I feel once you’re on board on the podcast, you’re on board for life and that’s kind of the goal, to get some fans for life who’ll support you forever.”Yeah, and you’ve been wrestling for, what nearly 17 years now?

“Yeah, this is my 18th year in wrestling now.”

Were you a wrestling fan growing up?

“Dude, I was a diehard wrestling fan. I was such a nerd! I was the only one in my high school that liked wrestling, like the way you and I like wrestling. There were people who heard of Hulk Hogan or whatever, casually, and this was like, I remember because I was in high school, right? I graduated in ’98. So ’97, that Attitude Era. My senior year, it was starting to get a little cooler and acceptable. No one really liked it, but it was acceptable. But those years before, my freshman, sophomore year, when I was just growing up as a… I was hitting puberty and all that stuff, like I’d have to tell people about Duke ‘The Dumpster’ Droese, so and for me to be able to stick in with that stuff, you’ve got to be a huge wrestling fan, man. I read the Torch starting at 13 years old and that was the way I kind of smartened up to wrestling, was reading all those inside stories. I think it prepared me a little bit, like, it gave me a nice inside track to get into wrestling, but until you are in wrestling, you really, as smart as you are, as you can be as a fan, until you’re really, really doing it and until you get an understanding, I think it is kind of two different worlds.”

Yeah. When did it become …

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