![]() By the time I looked back he was on me, so you saw once he got his footing he was gone man. ![]() I am looking at Chris and I’m like what is plan B, because he is not going to make it. I am over on the other side with Christopher Daniels and already he is taking a while. I can remember, if you look back at that, he is stumbling at first to get his footing. So yeah, I said let’s do it and it just was a switch. But we were all professionals and confident in our abilities. I don’t think we walked through anything. I don’t know if they had a cage up that day. A lot of people still think there is a lot of practice and going over everything, that is a one and done thing, you don’t practice that. I can do this.’ When I saw that he had no wavering, I said ‘Ok, let’s do it.’ You have to take your chances man. I looked at him and I said ‘Can you really do this?’ What convinced me was his confidence, he said to me ‘Yes. It couldn’t have been more than a few hours before the event, he came and he tried it one more time. “I don’t know if I want to take something like that and it is dangerous for him. Most of the day I was telling him no, there is no way. A lot of people don’t know this, but I told him no for most of the, it wasn’t talked about until that day. When he brought that idea up, I was like that takes it to a whole different level, that is dangerous. It wasn’t a complete out of the blue idea, he had done it in is matches previously. What a lot of people don’t remember is that part of Elix’s arsenal was that he would walk the top rope and do a huracanrana off of that, on the ropes. Elix had this idea and I thought that it was completely absurd. Our first cage match had got a lot of attention, but when we were talking about the second one, we wanted to top the first one, which is incredible if we could do that. That was our second cage match, a lot of people don’t remember the first one. On Elix Skipper’s cage walk huracanrana: “It is and it’s crazy that people still talk about it to this day. It was very unfortunate and I felt like I could make it work, but the opportunity was never presented to me.” ‘You can’t do this and you can’t do that, so why don’t you try…’ You’re messing with me man, I couldn’t go out and be myself in the ring. Seconds and minutes before I went out, I had a producer change my match. I still feel like I could have made that work if they let me wrestle, but they were even taking that away from me. I had generic music, gear, name, there was no reason for people to get behind me. I was just thrown out there, there was no story or background to Braden Walker anything like that. But within weeks, I was seeing that there was no background to this and no thought and I was just going to be one of the ones that are just thrown out there, and I was. I felt like maybe I made the right decision. ‘We’ve got plans for you.’ Things like that. When I first went, people were excited to see me and they didn’t want news getting out, it felt like a big deal. On never being given the opportunity while in WWE: “I was there for close to a year, and I just from the get go, I just saw different things. There was no preparation and no thought behind it. I could make Braden Walker work if they had given me an opportunity. They gave me the name, if I was still able to be myself, I could take any name that they throw at me. ![]() They gave me the name, and a lot of people have trashed that for years, but it wasn’t a surprise. The Wildcat is gone, I’m going to be a whole new character. Going in there, I tried to keep a positive attitude. Going in there, they just want to erase your past, which is unfortunate because you try so hard to build up a reputation for yourself and not that they would ever talk about TNA, but they don’t want them to talk about you like you are a rookie. On having his name changed from Chris Harris to Braden Walker in WWE: “It was unfortunate that they would do that but I can’t say that I was surprised. Video available at Chris Van Vliet’s YouTube Page By Jason Powell, Editor ( With Chris Van Vliet with guest Chris Harris
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