Rob Van Dam has been in the professional wrestling business for a long time, but after WWE purchased ECW he was just trying to climb the ladder in World Wrestling Entertainment.
Eventually Van Dam went on to become WWE Champion, but during a recent Q&A session with Pro Wrestling Junkies RVD revealed that he once turned down an offer from Triple H and turning down the offer put a stop to his push.
“Someone in an interview recently brought up that they got a tip that a reason one of my first pushes in WWE was stopped was because Hunter had offered to help me with my promos and I pretty much told him to ‘F–k off.’ Honestly, that sounds about right. I didn’t really tell him to f–k off, but I should have let him help me. I was feeling the stresses of the adjustment to the political machine there.”
The former WWE Champion also noted that he was being pulled in two different directions by Triple H and Jim Ross.
“I had [Triple H] and JR pulling me in different directions trying to get credit for bringing me there. Triple H would be telling me one thing and then JR would be pulling me the other way saying, ‘I got you this much extra on your merch – can your buddy [Triple H] do that?’ And then [Triple H] would say, ‘I got you this match because they want to do this with you,’ or whatever. I just didn’t want someone else trying to get credit for my success or taking credit for creating me. I was very headstrong and stubborn. Sometimes that was good, but if I could have been a little more flexible on certain things, it surely would have made a difference in a lot of areas.”
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