{"id":126780,"date":"2023-03-12T06:00:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/?p=126780"},"modified":"2023-03-10T23:34:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T05:34:45","slug":"santino-marella-on-being-able-to-use-his-name-in-impact-wrestling-becoming-a-comedy-wrestler-breaking-the-wwe-royal-rumble-record-for-fastest-elimination-the-origin-of-the-cobra-winning-the-miss-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/2023\/03\/12\/santino-marella-on-being-able-to-use-his-name-in-impact-wrestling-becoming-a-comedy-wrestler-breaking-the-wwe-royal-rumble-record-for-fastest-elimination-the-origin-of-the-cobra-winning-the-miss-w\/","title":{"rendered":"Santino Marella on being able to use his name in Impact Wrestling, becoming a comedy wrestler, breaking the WWE Royal Rumble record for fastest elimination, the origin of The Cobra, winning the Miss WrestleMania Battle Royal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"prowr-2955749017\" class=\"prowr-apple-podcast-button-link prowr-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/pro-wrestling-boom-podcast\/id1365989370\" aria-label=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?fit=320%2C78&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?w=320&ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?resize=300%2C73&ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" width=\"320\" height=\"78\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p><b>By Jason Powell<\/b>, ProWrestling.net Editor (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prowrestlingnet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@prowrestlingnet<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><b>Insight With Chris Van Vliet with guest Santino Marella<br \/>\nHost: Chris Van Vliet<br \/>\nPodcast available via <a href=\"https:\/\/podcast.chrisvanvliet.com\/santino-marella-is-the-greatest-comedic-wrestler-the-cobra-origin-story-winning-miss-wrestlemania-as-santina\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Podcasts.Apple.com<\/a><br \/>\nVideo available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OZryz_8Mx0o\">Chris Van Vliet&#8217;s YouTube Page<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OZryz_8Mx0o\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>On becoming a comedy wrestler:<\/b> &#8220;The shift happened, so the WWE Universe, as you probably know, they do not like to be force fed anything. And all of a sudden, this guy comes out of the audience. And, you know, he beats Chris Masters and, you know, Shelton Benjamin, he sneaks a victory, and it&#8217;s like, if he&#8217;s not fully trained, he&#8217;s beating the roster kind of doesn&#8217;t make sense. And, you know, there is a pay-per-view in the summer and Umaga was like, killing me in Houston. The audience was like one more time, and like the audience wasn&#8217;t taking to the initial babyface Santino that was kind of like, just thrust in you know, into them. So they said okay, we&#8217;re gonna have to turn him heel, and if that doesn&#8217;t work, you know, see you later repackage. And immediately upon turning heel, Vince found it very funny, because once I did my first heel promo, I did guest commentary next week, another promo, another promo, another promo and another pre-tape, because I actually separated my shoulder, this one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So it was an opportunity to get to speak on the mic. And, you know, people that were in Gorilla are like, dude, Vince is cracking up when you&#8217;re out there. He loves the character as a heel. So, if you can pop Vince you got a job, right? That&#8217;s, that&#8217;s the idea. So Vince was a fan and from what I hear, and you know, and there was actually no competition for a long time in terms of the comedic, the comic relief character. R-Truth a little bit at the time, he&#8217;s kind of doing now but at the time, there was really no no one was like, like Hornswoggle a little bit, but I was on Raw. So for a long time. I just kept quiet and didn\u2019t draw attention to it, but there was no competition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>On winning the Miss WrestleMania Battle Royal:<\/b> &#8220;Is that the Santina one? Yeah, no, I&#8217;m bad with the years and the numbers. It&#8217;s oddly enough, that was my biggest WrestleMania moment actually. I was the captain of Team Teddy, I had a match with Kofi against Big Show and Kane, so I had some matches. But that was like, the most highlighted, spotlighted moment in WrestleMania. [What was the lead up to that?] So the lead up was the storyline with Beth Phoenix in my life where I was just trying to, I was battling to be the alpha in the relationship. So the relationship dynamics was what we were going after. And you know, I was insecure, and I&#8217;m trying to show that men are better athletes. So I&#8217;m going to dress up as a woman and enter the Women&#8217;s Battle Royale. And the whole idea was just for the storyline with Beth and I, and it was supposed to be a one off. But it was so funny that it ended up lasting for months and months. I had to get fake lashes every day and all that stuff. I had to to go shopping in Houston at a mall for the gear that day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>On the origin of The Cobra:<\/b> &#8220;I was in Japan. So for most of 2004 I was living in Japan. And after the shows there, we all go to the bar restaurant every day. There was a gentleman named Carl, who was friends with my coach, Mr. Ishikawa. And he&#8217;s just sitting at the table and just showed me this thing where he transforms his arm and his little kind of wooden puppet type thing. And I remember looking at Mr. Ishikawa like, I don&#8217;t get it. What is that? He goes it was a funny thing he does, you know. So he made me try it. The next time I saw him say, do you remember how to do it, you know, and that was it. Like that was it? That was the little funny thing between us. I&#8217;m guessing about five years later, I believe it was Atlanta. And I was wrestling either Chavo or Carlito, I think it was Chavo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I go I am I try something during my comeback. So it&#8217;s like you know jab and clothesline or whatever punch and then next I stop and this transformation in my arm and I hit them they turned away into a schoolboy. And without seeing it on TV, the audience immediately laughed. So Cena, I always stand beside Cena, you know. So he came back, I came back through the curtain. He&#8217;s like, I would keep that if I were you, that was funny. And so I was doing it only on live events. And then one day I go to TV and Ricky Steamboat was my producer, and he&#8217;s like, I was wrestling Zack Ryder, he goes &#8216;You know, you&#8217;re going over with the Cobra. Vince wants to see the Cobra.&#8217; [I respond] Vince knows about the Cobra? He goes yeah, he reads the reports and I go okay, so then yeah, I did the Cobra. The Cobra was crazy, like in three weeks. Really quickly, I would gesture for it. I would see in my peripheral vision like entire arena, like jumping up. I\u2019m like really? Ok, they like it. I mean, I didn&#8217;t find it that spectacular, but they loved it. So and then I think they did it for like a year without the sleeve, and then we introduced the sleeve.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>On having the fastest ever Royal Rumble elimination:<\/b> &#8220;I know how to beat the record. I&#8217;m the only one that knows how to do it. Well, no one&#8217;s done it yet. But that&#8217;s a perfect example of when you&#8217;re given lemons, you make lemonade. You know, when they were going, we were going through the Rumble and Dean Malenko was like, &#8216;Yeah, you&#8217;re coming out getting eliminated pretty fast.&#8217; I said, you know, can we try and break the record? He&#8217;s like, let me get back to you. [The record was] Like two seconds? I think it was Warlord. And he [Malenko] came back to me and said, &#8216;By the way, you&#8217;re good on trying to break the record.&#8217; So Kane had a huge part in that he had to be there at that moment, right. I&#8217;ve slid under, stood up and I&#8217;m gone. I&#8217;m going. And he was there. I mean, he was there. Like it was perfect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>On being able to use the Santino Marella name in Impact Wrestling:<\/b> &#8220;Yeah, so the big thing, I guess in 2021, somebody did not renew the trademark. And as a habit. When Impact gets guys that were former WWE guys, they look up the trademarks, you know, they have to come up with a name for me. Well, what can they call me? St. Tino? Or you know, something? [Santino\u2019s real name is Anthony] Anthony? No, nobody wants to see Anthony. I found out you know, nobody really wants to see Anthony they&#8217;ve in fact disappointed when they see Anthony. But it [Santino] was available, Impact grabbed it. And it&#8217;s great news, you know. I was gonna have a great time anyway. But the fact that I can be Santino Marella and be the genuine article, and not a knockoff, it was just the icing on the cake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"prowr-3420928554\" class=\"prowr-after-content prowr-entity-placement\"><a class=\"spreaker-player\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/show\/pwboom\" data-resource=\"show_id=3275525\" data-theme=\"light\" data-playlist=\"show\" data-width=\"100%\" data-height=\"340px\">Listen to \"Pro Wrestling Boom Podcast\" on Spreaker.<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jason Powell, ProWrestling.net 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