9 Questions With Colt Cabana

Much more than just a pro wrestler, Colt Cabana is the host of the long-running Art Of Wrestling podcast, a stand-up comedian and a documentary-maker.

Earlier this month, he released the third in his Wrestling Road Diaries series. Subtitled Funny Equals Money, Wrestling Road Diaries Three follows Cabana and Kikutaro and Grado on a road trip across the Midwest, and explores what Cabana describes as “the craft of the comedic wrestler”.

Fin Martin chatted with Colt on November 22 about the documentary and his comedy wrestler influences, along with other topics, including Matt Hardy’s startling reinvention, and Cabana’s forthcoming match at Ring Of Honor’s Final Battle pay-per-view with a wrestler he recently betrayed, Dalton Castle ...

First of all, tell us about Wrestling Road Diaries Three.

“It’s the third in my series. It’s called Funny Equals Money: Wrestling Road Diaries Three. The theme of all of these documentaries is the independent wrestling scene and what it is.

“Independent wrestling has now become kind of a buzz [term], with the idea that NXT has stolen the idea of independent wrestling and marketed it on a world stage. But, for years, no one really knew what independent wrestling was. So, in 2009 when Daniel Bryan and I put out [The Wrestling Road Diaries], that documentary was, in my mind, the first inside look at what the world of independent wrestling was.

“This third one, the theme is independent wrestling, but we then break it down into other themes, and the main one here is comedy in wrestling.

“In independent wrestling, we’re our own bosses and nobody’s telling us what we can and cannot do, and some of us love the idea of doing comedy in our wrestling style. I brought over two of the funniest people I know — Kikutaro and Grado, who also travel the world as independent wrestlers — and we dissected comedy in wrestling, which I think is something that’s never been looked into as in-depth as it is in Wrestling Road Diaries Three.”