Wrestling is always evolving and there’s no denying that the in-ring style has changed a lot of over the years. Nowadays there are a number of wrestlers who utilize a high risk, high flying style in the ring which can sometimes lead to injuries.
Rob Van Dam recently talked about the modern style of wrestling on his 1 Of A Kind podcast, and he shared his take on why wrestlers are getting hurt more often now.
“I would say that because the style is so much different. You know, everybody’s a Rob Van Dam now. So everyone’s doing the dives and trying to outcrash each other. If they’re not fighting the glass or doing death matches — not everyone is doing a Darby Allin and going out there and trying to prove that they can’t die. But you know, they’re taking bumps on the steps, on the cinder blocks, f****** — it’s rough, and it’s an athletic style. The guys are smaller now. You know, a lot of the bigger guys back when I broke in, well they weren’t doing Rolling Thunders and moonsaults to the floor, you know. And that s*** wasn’t really being done, and those really big guys shouldn’t be doing that anyway. But now it’s more athletic, high-risk stunt moves. It’s — you know, Katie was saying yesterday that it’s a wonder more people don’t get their necks broken. And we’ll get to that.”
“And I will say not only just that, but even injured. You know, like on this show before, somebody asked me if I thought that CM Punk was — I don’t know if it was weak or accident-prone. Because he got hurt, and then I think soon as he came back and got hurt again or something. I was saying ‘No.’ I mean, the odds are very high that you’re going to get injured. It’s amazing that a lot of more serious injuries don’t happen more often. And when I think about when I was working full time — man, I was beat up a lot. And I think that a lot of people that weren’t me might have called themselves injured sometimes. But I felt like, ‘You know what, if I can get in there tonight and work then I’m not hurt.’ And that was my personal policy, even if I had to hide that I was limping because either a groin muscle in my knee or my ankle or whatever. Always ribs, bruised ribs? Oh so painful. It wasn’t part of the show, though. You know, they’re not paying to see an injured RVD tonight. That’s not part of it.”
H/T 411Mania.com
