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Oct. 29, 2024

Liv Morgan On Dominik Mysterio, Rhea Ripley, Getting Booed, Her Britney Spears Inspired Gear

Liv Morgan On Dominik Mysterio, Rhea Ripley, Getting Booed, Her Britney Spears Inspired Gear

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Liv Morgan (@YaOnlyLivvOnce) is a professional wrestler currently signed to WWE. She sits down with Chris Van Vliet at Circa Resort & Casino in Las Vegas to discuss her reign as the Women's World Champion, the Liv Morgan Revenge Tour, how this reign compares to her first one, her relationship with Dominik Mysterio, paying tribute to Britney Spears with her ring gear at King and Queen of the Ring, if she is worried about being cashed in by Miss Money in the Bank Tiffany Stratton and more!

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On not being shocked by the negative fan response:

“No, I feel like after taking Rhea out, after stealing Dominik, after stealing The Judgment Day, after winning this title, I anticipated that I would not be very much liked anymore.”

On what’s left on the Liv Morgan Revenge Tour?

“I don’t know. At Bad Blood that was for me this is done. Rhea seems unsatisfied with the finish of this match and she’s kind of just a little bit obsessive at this point, won’t leave us alone. So I feel like there might be a little bit of unfinished business that I have to take care of. So it might not be [over].”

On maybe Tiffany Stratton cashing in her Money in the Bank briefcase:

“I have a lot of things going on right now. I have Nia Jax to prep for Crown Jewel. I have Tiffany potentially wanting to cash in on me, and I have Rhea who is literally being a stage five clinger and stalker for me and Daddy Dom. So there’s a lot of things going on. But luckily, I’m not looking over my shoulder. Do you know why? Because I have Raquel Rodriguez doing that for me. So I have her so I kind of just breathe easy and sleep so great at night and rest my pretty little head.”

On when the seeds with Dom started to be planted:

“I believe the week after Rhea left. Daddy Dom was handling some business in the hallway, I saw him, I crept up behind him, and we had a little face-to-face moment. There might have been some chemistry there already that maybe he was trying to hide. He was very resistant at first, but I was very, very, very, very, very consistent in my efforts to win him over, and it paid off.”

On Dom’s promo blasting Liv Morgan:

“No, they weren’t [nice words]. But I didn’t know at the time that that was all part of his plan. He said that to me to throw me off so that everything that happens at SummerSlam would be just a major surprise. So I didn’t know. I had no idea that he was gonna say that to me. I had no idea that at SummerSlam he was gonna choose me. There’s a lot of things going on, him and Finn were very crafty.”

On what Liv would have told herself 10 years ago:

“I think I would tell myself to have a little bit more confidence in myself. I feel like I spent a lot of the early years of my career feeling like I wasn’t good enough or that I didn’t quite belong because I didn’t have a crazy athletic pedigree or family in this business, I really feel like I had no real reason why I had deserved to be here, and I think that hindered me a little bit in my performance and my confidence in my development. So I think I’d tell her just have a little bit more faith in yourself, you made it this far, have a little bit more confidence, have a little bit more belief in yourself, and that this ride’s gonna be f*cking crazier than you’ve ever, ever ever thought, and it’s gonna be better than you’ve ever thought.”

On when things started clicking:

“I feel like maybe 2022, my journey to Money in the Bank. I feel like then I really started to feel like it was clicking and then I think even after that, even more. But I feel like my time off really gave me a sense of self that I felt like I was missing just for doing this for so long. Since I was 20 years old this is all I’ve really immersed myself in and it’s all I’ve done full-time for the last decade. So to have that time off and to just be myself fully all the time. I just learned a lot about myself, and I really did kind of develop a really strong sense of self that I didn’t know I was missing beforehand, because I just didn’t know. So I feel like coming back with that new confidence. Then I was like, oh it really, really, really clicked. But it’s funny because it was something that I didn’t know I was missing. I didn’t know that I didn’t feel myself until all I had to do was be myself for six months.”

On feelings of doubt while out injured:

“For sure. That’s why I was very intentional. I created the Liv Morgan revenge tour. That was my brain baby, that was what I did in my time off was securing my spot when I came back, and that was getting my revenge on the top girl in the company, Rhea Ripley, and I did, and it was very intentional.” 

On Dom hanging above the ring in the shark cage:

“I felt sad for him. He has trauma. He doesn’t like Shark cages. He doesn’t like heights, and he was in that position because of me. That’s why I actually got him the Daddy DomWe got matching Daddy Dom shoes and that was just like my sorry present. I felt bad for him, but he was a trooper, and he did that for me, and it ended up working out in the end. So it wasn’t all for nothing.” 

On her WrestleMania 41 dream match:

“Is it bad that I truly in this moment in time, I don’t have I don’t know what that looks like? I don’t have an answer for that right now. I feel like there’s so many things going on in the landscape of the women’s division that I don’t even know where we fall in April to even think about that.”

On her Britney Spears-inspired gear at King and Queen of the Ring:

“I was actually really, really, really, really stumped on that gear, because when we first had our Saudi show that I was invited to it dawned on me right away, red Britney gear. And then so the second show, I had no inspo, and I was like, maybe just repurpose the red Britney gear? But now I can’t do it for a third time. So now I’m really scrambling trying to figure out what I want to do.” 

Britney has a lot of outfits 

“I know, but not body suits. It needs to be like body suit inspo, and I’ve already done the red one twice. I can’t do it again.”

On how her two championship reigns compare:

“They don’t. When I won the SmackDown title, I was very much in disbelief, like that was the pinnacle of my dream coming true, making it to WWE and being champion, winning Money the Bank, beating Ronda Rousey, and having my first title. That was truly just like, wow I really, really, really did it, and I remember just standing on the turnbuckle with my title, just looking into the audience and just trying to remember everything about that moment and feeling forever, because I just couldn’t believe it. When I won this it was not that feeling of disbelief of Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. I finally, finally did it. This was like, Yeah, motherf*cker, I won this sh*t. So it was different on that level, and also, my confidence was just different. I kind of just said I was very grateful, and just like wow, I can’t believe I had done this, and I knew I had earned this, and so I just felt differently about it.”

What is Liv Morgan grateful for?

“My family, my job and my health.”