All good things must come to an end — Colt Cabana is ending his weekly Art Of Wrestling podcast after nine years on the air.
“This is an announcement. Is this the announcement you wanted to hear, or the one that you didn’t? Sadly, I feel that it’s going to be the one you did not want to hear. After 9+ years—‘don’t say it, Colt! don’t say it! No! No!’—after 9+ years, the Art Of Wrestling podcast will be coming to an end.”
Colt posted a new audio clip titled “Announcement” and explained why he was ending his show, citing the weekly grind of putting together a podcast and wanting to focus on his matches on the road as why things would change. He said things will not completely end, as he still has prior commitments to fulfill and he also has plans to put up a Patreon for the back archives of the interviews or special event audio shows.
Colt explained that he knows there might be a demand for the show in some form, so he doesn’t want to shut it down completely. He added that he will not be leaving the airwaves immediately, citing prior mid-roll advertising commitments for still recording a monthly podcast each month until December. Colt will also be recording at Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August and will release more live show recordings, including an Art Of Wrestling ‘AMA’ style show.
Colt said fans should not unsubscribe to the show because he will not let the RSS feed go completely dead, but the last ‘official’ weekly episode of Art Of Wrestling will be recorded on Starrcast III weekend. Listen to the full clip below:
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Colt recently enjoyed a reign as NWA National Champion before losing the title to James Storm at last month’s Ring Of Honor television tapings in Philadelphia. Wrestlezone spoke to Cabana about after his ‘Art Of Wrestling’ panel at Starrcast in Las Vegas about being able to represent the NWA and having different creative outlets such as his podcast and stand-up comedy. Cabana talked about comedy being a release for him, noting that he still gets nervous on stage but it’s a good challenge for his brain and some different from wrestling.
“Coming from me, it can be a little nerve wracking in front of like 10 people in Chicago and I’m super nervous, and the week before I was wrestling in front of 5,000 people in Japan and had no nerves. It is what it is, but I like doing it and I like having like a little side project. Like, I get what Dolph Ziggler is doing and why he’s doing it. We need a different outlet and we need something to do that’s fun. And I love wrestling. I love getting out there and wrestling. But, you know, I wrestle 200 days a year or whatever it is. I have a pretty wild schedule, and so, we choose different ways to relax. This is kind of a cool way for me to do something different, and kind of also test my brain and challenge my brain. I had a fun conversation with Shane Douglas today about challenging our brains and doing something different. We’ve all been in wrestling and it’s kind of just like, it’s so easy, it’s so ‘walk and talk’ for a lot of us. And it’s fun to have that challenge that we had maybe when we first started wrestling. It just kind of triggers your brain. So for me, comedy is kind of like that. It’s enjoyable.”
