Rob Van Dam is the only man in history to hold the WWE Championship and ECW Championship simultaneously, but unfortunately for RVD his title reigns didn’t last very long because he was forced to drop the belts after he was arrested.
The former champion addressed the arrest during an appearance on the Wrestling Inc. Daily podcast, and he noted that when he first came face to face with Vince McMahon the boss was in no mood to talk to him.
“If anybody semi-doesn’t know what we’re talking about, I had the WWE and the ECW Championship, got pulled over for speeding in Ohio, and the car smelled like weed and they found 18 grams of marijuana plus whatever we had in our vitamins. So Sabu, right away, was like, ‘we got to call him and tell him.’ I’m like, ‘what? Are you crazy? What do we tell him?’ I didn’t think they were going to find out, but by the time we got to the arena, everybody already knew. It was on every form of media, and Vince, when we saw him the first time, he walked right by us in the hallway. He was not ready to talk to us. I was like, ‘eh, that didn’t feel good,’ and he was mad.”
Rob Van Dam went on to say that after Vince spoke with his people and came up with a plan he “couldn’t have been cooler.”
“A couple a couple hours later, after he had a chance to talk to his advisors and come up with a plan of how they were going to handle that because that wasn’t the plans for me to drop the championship that night and the next night. He was cool then. The next time I saw him, he said, ‘look, you’re going to be suspended for 30 days. You’re going to drop the championships. Just take this 30 days and get some rest.’ Couldn’t have been cooler. He’s always just been super cool to me. I know that other people see different sides of him, just like with anybody, but I got nothing but respect for him and no stories of him ever being an a–hole to me or around me.”
Rob Van Dam currently works for Impact Wrestling, but he last appeared on WWE programming in July of 2019 when he made a special appearance on the Raw reunion episode.
