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🗓️ 19 May 2021
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RVD and those others involved in title changes due to real-life events... Adam Nicholas presents 10 Real Life Events That Forced Wrestling World Title Changes...
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0:00.0 | They say that life is what happens when you're busy making other plans, or in the year 2020, |
0:04.9 | life is the thing that takes your plans completely and utterly destroys them, |
0:09.7 | rips them up and like a goddamn packet of crisps, and then chucks them across the room |
0:14.4 | like an empty goddamn tracksuit. Can you tell that I'm a little bit pissed off about 2020 still? |
0:20.1 | But nevertheless, this can also impact wrestling much in the way it impacted all of our lives in 2020, |
0:25.2 | and when it happens in wrestling, particularly when it relays to a champion of the company |
0:29.6 | at the time, that can be a bit of a problem, especially if you've got a planned match or a |
0:33.9 | planned storyline featuring said champion. I'm Adam Nicholas, this is what culture |
0:38.0 | wrestling and these are 10 real life events that forced wrestling will title changes. |
0:41.9 | Number 10, Rob Van Damme drops two titles after drug charge. As of this recording, |
0:46.1 | Rob Van Damme is the most recent name announced for the 2021 WWE Hall of Fame class. |
0:50.8 | There's no dispute in the RVD is absolutely deserving of a spot in any wrestling hall of fame, |
0:55.6 | and the whole FN show is one of the most popular stars of his generation. |
0:59.4 | Once he landed in ACWL in 1996, Van Damme quickly began to show audiences something |
1:04.0 | ugly unique, and Mr. Monday night was a genuine trailblazer. That said, the battle |
1:08.4 | Michigan native is also famous for dropping not one, but two world championships after feeling |
1:13.3 | a drugs test. This came in July 2006, fresh off WWE relaunching the ACW brand, with Van Damme |
1:19.5 | spearheading the new Land of Extreme as the ACWL champion, in addition to having bested John Cena |
1:24.8 | to become WWE Champion at that year's one night stand, one month prior. |
1:28.8 | As did ill by RVD in an interview with Wrestling Inc, he and Cebu were pulled over in Ohio |
1:33.8 | for speeding. There, the police found 18 grams of marijuana, five vigodin, |
1:38.0 | nine testosterone and various drug paraphernalia. Yep, that'll do it. |
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