When Rob Van Dam was working his way through the ranks in professional wrestling he quickly made a name for himself thanks to his unique style. Van Dam managed to have a Hall of Fame worthy career and he still wrestles when he feels the need to.
However, it seems that there are some aspects of modern wrestling that rub RVD the wrong way as the former WWE Champion told the Two Man Power Trip Of Wrestling that he’s offended by a lot of what he sees nowadays.
“I’m still offended by a lot of the stuff that I see nowadays. Because I was taught, and I hate it when people say, ‘Oh, I wasn’t brought up that way,’ no one was brought up that way, we have to adapt. Your perception changes when you’re an adult. The number one rule was to protect the business, always, always, always was, and then somewhere way down the road, it became, ‘number one rule: safety first.’ Like, what?”
Van Dam went on to say that he was trained a certain way, and his old school perspective makes some things less enjoyable for him when it comes to today’s wrestling.
“The way we trained, if you got bloody, that was good for the match, it made it looked good. And there was no air allowed between anybody, my whole training with Sheik was about grabbing each other and bringing each other in tighter. Bringing each other in whether its a headlock, or a waist-lock, or an armlock, it was always about coming in and squeezing. Anytime someone was on their back, boom, you better be jumping on him trying to pin him, trying to win. And that’s not the way I see a lot of wrestling today. A lot of times, it eats me up. What’s the right way to put it? Some things are less than enjoyable for me to watch just because of that mentality, old school perspective that I have.”
At 51 years old you never know where Rob Van Dam might show up as he recently stepped into the ring over the weekend at CyberFight Festival 2022 in Japan. Stay tuned for more updates on RVD’s in-ring future as they become available.
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