Chris Van Vliet welcomed Rob Van Dam as his guest this week on the “INSIGHT” podcast. The full interview can be watched below. Here are just a few highlights:
Rob Van Dam on how he lost his WWE Hall of Fame ring:
“So the very first week that I got it, I did a show in Wisconsin and I wasn’t used to having it. I left it in the hotel room. I went back to Las Vegas and so it took an honest maid and an honest front desk person and an honest wrestling promoter. Thank you, Ben McCoy for calling me and saying, ‘Did you forget something dude’, and I didn’t even know yet. I just got home the next day and wow, I had it for, I don’t know. I think it was the same week, so I didn’t have it very long and I lost it already.”
On his recent appearance on AEW:
“I was at a convention in Hamburg, Pennsylvania, Legends Fest and I got the message, ‘Hey, can you do the 23rd in Grand Rapids?’ Interestingly enough, last year, at this exact same time, they messaged me with that, September 5th, actually, and that’s when I got the okay to do it. It was like a year ago, and then I did it, but some time had passed then, but that day was, you know, near Battle Creek. I’m from Battle Creek, hometown boys, so obviously, same idea. Again, that’ll be cool. It’s one week before I’m going to be doing my show in Battle Creek, which those guys have been working on that for like a year, you know, promoting it, and it’s a big full circle return home and then just the week before they put me in Grand Rapids, which is just right down the street.”
If he is thinking about winding down his wrestling career:
“Not really. I mean, you know, sometimes the thought goes through my head if I’m having a bad travel day, for instance, ‘I’m done. I hate this. I just want to be home. Traveling sucks.’ I’ll have those moments inside my head, but they usually don’t last that long. I used to think I was gonna retire, that was like several years ago, and I thought I was probably close to hanging the boots up and now I just don’t even think I will. I think I’ll be like Dory Funk Jr. I may quit taking bookings, but I don’t think I’m gonna make a big deal out of being retired because the credibility of wrestlers retiring is so broad anyway.”
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