Wrestling Life with Ben Veal

The life of former WCW World Heavyweight Champion and United States Champion 'The Total Package' Lex Luger is a tale of two halves. After gaining through some very dark times in the early 2000s, Lex became a born again Christian in 2006 before suffering a severe spinal cord injury the following year and being diagnosed as a quadriplegic. However, 15 years on, the former WWF superstar has a hugely...

Angelina Love and Psycho Boy Fodder are a great team both inside and outside of the squared circle! Meeting for the first time while working for the NWA, the pair married in 2023 and haven't looked back since. Fodder and Angelina join Wrestling Life Online's Ben Veal to talk married life, wrestling psychology and the art form of being heels and building a killer wrestling match. #angelinalove #psy...

Future Pro Wrestling champion Roy Johnson has learnt a lot about himself through spending the last decade as a professional wrestler. Committed to promoting and encouraging more inclusion within the industry as the curator of Everything Patterned - the first time a show of all Black wrestlers had ever been staged in the UK - 'Ibiza's Favourite Wrestler' is proud of what he's accomp...

Wrestling Life with Ben Veal

Eric Bischoff made a shocking return to WWE as the Executive Director of Smackdown in 2019 - but it didn't last long. Guy Evans, co-writer of Bischoff's second autobiography 'Grateful;', shares his thoughts on why it happened, and why it was also destined for failure from the outset. Watch full interview: https://youtu.be/LCUhKcYbrFU?si=gOMUQaFInYTomBeh #wcw #mondaynightwars #guyev...

What happened to World Championship Wrestling during its last 18 months in business? Why was so much of its content unwatchable during its dying days? How did the infamous Hulk Hogan and Jeff Jarrett 'Bash At The Beach 2000' incident impact the company's long-term future? NITRO author Guy Evans shares his viewpoint on 1999-2001 WCW. Watch full interview: https://youtu.be/LCUhKcYbrFU?si...

Guy Evans shares memories of first interviewing and later working with former WCW president Eric Bischoff on 'Grateful', the follow-up to his first autobiography which picks up where 'Controversy Creates Cash' left off. Watch full interview:    • Guy Evans on NITRO's Success, WCW's D...   #wcw #mondaynightwars #guyevans #ericbischoff #wrestlinginterview Subscribe:    / @wre...

What was behind the meteoric rise of World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in the mid-1990s? How did the Atlanta-based promotion best the WWF in the television ratings war for 83 consecutive weeks? What led to WCW's shocking buyout by its biggest competitor in 2001 - and how did WWE's lengthy monopoly on the industry impact the world of professional wrestling? Guy Evans is the author of three...

NITRO: The Incredible and Inevitable Collapse of Ted Turner’s WCW, goes into astonishing levels of detail about the true story of World Championship Wrestling - and its author, Guy Evans, did such a thorough job with telling the promotion’s story in a fair, balanced and impartial way that he was then entrusted by Eric Bischoff to support him with the writing of his second autobiography, Grateful....

WWE superstar Kurt Angle's Olympic win with "a broken freakin' neck" became a beloved catchphrase amongst sports entertainment fans - yet despite all of Angle's many accolades inside the WWE and TNA ring, winning Gold at the 1996 Olympic Games remains his proudest achievement. In this 'Wrestling Life with Ben Veal' interview clip, the WWE Hall of Famer opens up about...

"I was p*ssed at first" says Kurt Angle, the multiple-time WWE champion and legendary professional wrestling competitor who unexpectedly became a meme in 2023 after his 'thousand yard stare' went viral. In this clip from 'Wrestling Life with Ben Veal', the WWE and TNA Hall of Famer talks about his initial reaction and how he capitalised on the surprising global awareness....

The summer of 2001 in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) provided wrestling fans with some of their most beloved memories, as headliners Stone Cold Steve Austin and Kurt Angle forged an unlikely friendship that resulted in incredible on-screen chemistry. In this clip from 'Wrestling Life with Ben Veal', WWE Hall of Fame Kurt Angle remembers that special time in his career - and one very...

WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle reflects back on his return to World Wrestling Entertainment in 2017 - and why it didn’t go as he had hoped. Watch full Kurt Angle interview:    • Kurt Angle on Retirement, John Cena, ...   Subscribe to @wrestlinglifeonline for real talk from real talent. #kurtangle #wwe #vincemcmahon #wrestling

Multiple-time world heavyweight champion, Olympic Gold Medalist and WWE, TNA and Wrestling Observer Hall of Fame Kurt Angle has done it all inside the squared circle. The one and only Kurt Angle now joins Ben Veal on the #wrestlinglifepod to reflect back on an astonishing career, why he stopped wrestling, life since retiring, the joys of family life, his final run with WWE and what the future now...

Veteran wrestling referee Mike Chioda officiated so many of the most iconic WWE and WWF moments, including multiple WrestleMania main events. But was there any BIGGER match than the 'Icon vs Icon' clash between The Rock and Hollywood Hulk Hogan at WrestleMania X8 in Toronto? Mike was the 'third man in the ring' for that iconic clash - and shares memories of that, and other huge Man...

"What Cody Rhodes did for all the boys in the wrestling business ... he should be a God to everybody." Veteran #WWE referee Mike Chioda shares his thoughts on Cody Rhodes, the impact that Cody has made on the wrestling industry, The American Nightmare's shocking return to WWE in 2022 - and why the referee's brief run in AEW didn't last longer. #aew #codyrhodes #wwe #mikechiod...

Mike Chioda is one of the most respected and beloved professional wrestling referees of all time - the 'third man in the ring' for iconic #WrestlingWWE moments including The Rock vs Hulk Hogan's 'Icon vs Icon' WrestleMania X8 clash, The Rock vs John Cena's 'Once In A Lifetime' collision at WrestleMania XXVIII, and Kurt Angle and Shane McMahon's death-defying KOT...

As the 'third man in the ring' for some of sports entertainment's biggest moments - from The Rock vs Hulk Hogan at WrestleMania X8 to The 123 Kid's shocking Monday Night Raw upset over Razor Ramon - legendary WWE referee Mike Chioda really has seen and done it all in the wrestling business.  Mike joins Ben Veal on the #wrestlinglifepod to reflect back on his incredible career, the...

Who had the best DDT in pro wrestling? Jake ‘The Snake’ Roberts? Arn Anderson? Raven? British wrestling veteran RJ Singh has been the ‘King of the DDT’ since 2022 - and speaks on ‘Wrestling Life with Ben Veal’ about making the move a finisher once again and why protecting finishing moves is a forgotten art in wrestling today. Full episode out now - subscribe to @wrestlinglifeonline for real talk f...

Wrestling Life with Ben Veal

As Victoria in WWE and Tara in TNA, Lisa Marie Varon was a true trailblazer for women's wrestling; the seven-time women's champion's natural charisma and in-ring abilities paved the way for the talented female performers that would follow in her footsteps.  Lisa joins 'Wrestling Life with Ben Veal' to reflect back on her career and to also talk about being diagnosed with ADHD a...

Lisa Marie Varon (Victoria in WWE / Tara in TNA) joins 'Wrestling Life with Ben Veal' to talk about her incredible career in World Wrestling Entertainment and reflect back on memories made. In this clip, Lisa talks about her first WWE Women''s Championship win over Trish Stratus at Madison Square Garden at Survivor Series 2002, how that hardcore match raised the bar for women's...

Stevie Richards and Victoria were inseparable on WWE programming in the early 2000s - but what was their real-life relationship like behind the scenes? Women's wrestling trailblazer Lisa Marie Varon (Victoria in WWE / Tara in TNA) joins 'Wrestling Life with Ben Veal' to talk about working with ECW original Stevie Richards, how he helped to shape her character and performance, and doing...

Former WCW star and current professional wrestling trainer and inspirational speaker Brad 'Lodi' Cain joins Ben Veal to share his incredible journey of returning to the squared circle after heart surgery. Brad also opens up his time in World Championship Wrestling, growing in fellowship with other men through the 'Wait Room Revival Sessions', learning from Arn Anderson and preparin...

'The Ambassador of British Wrestling' Doug Williams played a big role in the career of Nick Aldis - and now couldn't be happier to see his former British Invasion partner get his big break in WWE. In this 'Wrestling Life with Ben Veal' clip, the British wrestling veteran shares what he learned from working alongside Aldis in TNA and the NWA, how he feels about Nick Aldis being...