Colt Cabana spoke with Wrestlezone.com after his ‘Art Of Wrestling’ panel at Starrcast in Las Vegas. Cabana talked about seeing a number of comedians embracing their pro wrestling fandom, saying it’s exciting to see comedians crossing over into professional wrestling after years of it being the other way around.
“It’s the same thing I’ve been doing for the past ten years, trying to break into the comedy scene a little bit. I did some training in Chicago at Comedy Sports, I’ve been doing the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for the past seven years, I will be at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August—August 2 through the 25 in Scotland. Every night we’re doing a comedy show, myself and John Hastings. So, this is something that I’ve been doing, and the comedians have embraced me into their world. A lot of them, especially because so many of them have been wrestling fans that they’ll be so happy that I want to be involved in the comedy world. So I think it’s finally the other way around now, where we’re letting the comedians in, and I don’t see anything wrong with it because they’re obviously such huge fans. And there’s an appreciation of like, an art.
These comedians – they’ve been going at it for so long, and as wrestlers, we can appreciate how much time they put into their art. So that’s something, as artists, we all kind of appreciate what we’re doing, so we would welcome the comedians or the musicians or the poets – or whatever it might be, the athletes, into pro wrestling. They have respect for the wrestling and obviously, these guys are such huge fans they obviously have the respect for it.”
Cabana is also the current NWA National Champion, and he commented on the importance of nostalgia in wrestling and re-establishing the NWA as a brand in today’s wrestling world:
“We just did the live podcast at Starrcast—I had Glacier on and we just started talking and he started talking about his mentors where Lou Thesz, Billy Robinson, and Danny Hodge, and my mind was, like, blown. Because there’s something so romantic about those three wrestlers in general. You just don’t think about them as people because they just have this aura about them. I have so much respect for everybody wrestling, especially the past, I really do.
So to be with NWA and how NWA is like ‘We know it’s new school,’ but it’s also definitely representing and respecting the past traditions of pro wrestling. So, I’m all on board and to be able to represent the NWA with the National Championship is amazing, and I’m proud to do it, and I’m looking forward to how long [I can be champion] and how much I can do with this championship. And I think that’s going to be kind of the cool thing.”
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