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Rob Van Dam Interview - His Influence On Wrestling! Worst Injury! ECW! Getting Arrested As WWE Champion?!

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WhatCulture Wrestling

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4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Simon Miller talks to Rob Van Dam at Walemania about his influence on current wrestling, getting arrested as WWE Champion, his worst injury, ECW, training in Japan and much more...


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0:00.0

So I'm from what culture here with the one and only Rob Van Damme, Mr Van Damme, how

0:12.5

are we doing today?

0:13.9

Most excellent dude, by Van Test Extendords.

0:17.9

Have you trademarked that yet?

0:19.9

As far as you know, I'm not going to do it, I'm not going to run out, nobody will buy

0:24.9

it if I do anything.

0:26.4

So my first question to you is, it's kind of a, I don't want to feel like I'm blowing

0:29.9

smoke up your ass, but I am going to do that because I think it's only right.

0:32.9

Light it up bro.

0:33.9

But it's true because if you watch wrestling in 2022, which I'm sure you do, you must

0:38.4

see your influence all over it because you were kind of perfecting this style that now

0:43.1

has just become the mainstream in what, like the mid 90s, the late 90s, the early 2000s,

0:47.8

the late 2000s, the 2010s, you were always ahead of it.

0:51.0

You must watch it and go, I see what you're doing.

0:55.1

It's nice to know that I've inspired, you know what I mean?

0:58.8

Not just myself, but, but yeah, it's always original for moves that everybody liked as a

1:05.9

fan, so now that they grow up in their wrestling, even though everyone else in the business thought

1:09.7

I was crazy at the time, you know, in all Japan, Stan Hansen used to give me so much shit.

1:15.8

I'm out there trying to do backflip off the guardrail.

1:19.5

He didn't see any place for that in the business and, you know, till I earned his respect in

1:24.1

a match with him one time, because then he, you know, gave him the shoulders and backfliped

1:28.6

and ran out of kicked him or something and he was like, I, I never seen it from that,

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