Rob Van Dam has been lucky enough to have a long career in the wrestling business and throughout his career he’s crossed paths with some big names including Shawn Michaels. A few years ago during an interview Rob Van Dam did an impression of Shawn Michaels where he imitated HBK’s lazy eye, and the footage has been seen by many fans online.
During a recent episode of his 1 Of A Kind podcast Rob Van Dam talked about running into Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania 39 and he noted that he directly addressed the footage while speaking with Michaels.
“I caught him by himself. I ran up to him and said, ‘Hey, dude. The footage of me making fun of your eye like that just will never die. People love it. I tell them I’m glad to hear they’re entertained by it, but I feel like such a d**k because that has to suck so bad and I had double vision with my concussion for a long time. I had to go to vision therapy and all these experts.
“And when I told him that he said, ‘Yeah, I saw the movie.’ So I was like, ‘Sweet, you watched Headstrong!’ And then I said to think about just the headaches and how inconvenient that would be because I was thrown way off my game, not being able to see right. Like for a while, I was lost…’ He just said something to the effect about that he didn’t take it that seriously, which he’s told me before, you know, but I still wanted to say [it], but something about growth cause I said, ‘I wouldn’t do that now,’ you know? I wouldn’t.”
“Like now I’m all about trying not to put anything negative out there. He said something about, ‘You know, look at me. I used to be a d**k,’ (I paraphrase). I don’t remember what he said, but like [we] grew from where we were before. You know, we hugged it out and I said, ‘Thanks for watching Headstrong, bro. Spread the word.’”
