Colt Cabana Talks WWE Wrestling And Announcing Tryouts, If TNA Was Ever An Option, New Documentary

I recently caught up with wrestling star and podcasting pioneer Colt Cabana. In the second and final part of the interview below, Colt discussed his WWE announcing tryout in 2013, if he had ever considered signing with TNA, returning to ROH, his past heat with Jim Cornette and more.

Click here for part one of the interview, where Colt discussed his short WWE run, meeting Vince McMahon, Vince’s idea of comedy, if he was able to make Vince laugh and more. You can purchase Wrestling Road Diaries 3 now at DigitalColt.com.

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So then you had a WWE tryout again in 2013 for an announcing gig?

“So I had two different tryouts. In 2013, I had a dark match. Oh, no, maybe that was 2011. I had a dark match in 2011 against Wade Barrett and then, yeah, in 2013 or 14, I went down three different times. Well, in 2013, I went twice to Titan Towers on different occasions. And then, 2014, I think, I went three times to the Performance Center to do announcing. And yeah, I had a bunch of weird, different tryouts after that.”So is that, given the success of your podcast, and being very comfortable behind the mic, is that something you’d want to try more of, is a doing some wrestling announcing?

“I don’t know if it’s announcing or commentating, or even fun, like, YouTube stuff. But, obviously, right, with the podcast, I enjoy, I guess, almost commentating. Like, I don’t mean commentating, like, a match, just commentating in general on wrestling and the culture and everything, so that stuff, I really do enjoy and I try to do that stuff as much as I can on my own, so it is something I do enjoy. Whether it’s for WWE or whether it is just for it’s own sake, it is, like, obviously, I realize, as a guy, I wrestle, as an independent wrestler you can wrestle three or four times, maybe, a week. To me, it’s like, ‘wow, there are three or four other days I’m open to do stuff’ and I try to take advantage of that by doing other stuff outside of the ring. So and I really do like doing stuff outside the ring and usually it has to do with comedy.”

Yeah, so what was that? So Wrestling Road Diaries 1 and 2, kind of behind-the-scenes look at traveling on the road in independent wrestling, 3 looks more at the comedy aspect. Did that change kind of the experiences filming backstage? Just filming the documentary, did that change the experience being that it was more based in comedy?

“I think for like editing purposes, it did. I think what’s funny is that second one had Luke Gallows and Domino. And this one’s about comedy wrestling. But Luke Gallows is literally the funniest human being in professional wrestling, so it’s not like with Kikutaro and Grado they weren’t going to out-funny Luke Gallows. He’s the king. He’s the king of comedy behind the scenes. For some reason, on TV he’s just portrayed as a killer or a monster. But the way we did edit it though, I had a clear, Jack Edinger edited it and directed it, but I was also directing while we were filming. Just kind of funny for a documentary, I was, we were documenting, but I was also directing some aspects of it. And I wanted to really dissect the matches, like, talk about why stuff is funny and why stuff isn’t funny, to see what works and why it doesn’t work in the vein of comedy in wrestling, so in that aspected, I wanted to make sure we get into that when filming.”

Yeah. And how long ago did you come up with the third, right after one and two?

“It was an idea I had for a while now. Like, I think the first one came out in 2011 and the second one came out it maybe 2013, 2014. So I like to space them out a little bit. Also, they took a long time to edit because Jack is a busy dude and I’m not giving him millions of dollars. We didn’t have a Kickstarter or a GoFundMe. It was literally just me paying him, so you work with the time you’re allowed. But I’ve got ideas already for doing one in Japan, doing one in Europe, doing the comedy tour that Marty DeRosa and I do, maybe doing an audio one, so I’ve had different ideas. But you kind of want to space them out.”And with that, how long had you known Grado and Kikutaro, who are in the documentary?

“I met Kikutaro in 2005 and in Ring Of Honor, he wrestled Samoa Joe and, like, really hurt him. I remember he got him bad, I think. You can go back and look at that. I think Kikutaro dressed up as Kiku Cactus Jack. That’s the thing he would did in Japan for years. He would dress up like, he would always have a different mask, and it would like like Stan Hansen or Great Muta, it was really cool, Bruiser Brody, and Cactus Jack. And so, it has been about 10 years I’ve known Kikutaro. And Grado, I saw the VICE documentary on Grado. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen that. It’s called The British Wrestler. And it’s amazing and fell in love with him. Sonjay Dutt told me about it and I think in the wrestling community he became a real cult hero. And I think I tweeted something out …

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