Rob Van Dam accomplished a lot throughout his WWE career and he will go down in history as the only many to ever hold the ECW Championship and WWE Championship simultaneously. He cemented his legacy with a Hall of Fame induction, but it sounds like Van Dam and WWE didn’t always see eye to eye when it came to his ring gear.
A fan recently noted on Twitter that they thought Rob Van Dam always had the coolest ring gear, and he responded by saying that was one of the first things WWE tried to change about him.
This was one of the first things WWE tried to change about me https://t.co/fuO0Thezro
— Rob Van Dam (@TherealRVD) September 25, 2022
The former WWE Champion then went on to share a photo of a toned down singlet while noting that it was what WWE wanted him to wear when he joined the company.
This was what they wanted me to wear. I kept it for non televised house shows https://t.co/49b38vnSUi
— Rob Van Dam (@TherealRVD) September 26, 2022
Luckily it seems that WWE gave up when it came to changing RVD’s look as he wore a number of colorful, airbrushed singlets throughout his run with World Wrestling Entertainment.
Rob Van Dam last appeared on Raw when he returned to WWE for the special Raw reunion episode in July of 2019. He was later inducted into the Hall of Fame as part of the 2021 class.
