Over the course of his practically 25-year in-ring profession, Rob Van Dam has nearly seen all of it. Working throughout unbiased promotions together with stints in ECW, WCW, WWE, TNA, and even AEW in recent times, few are extra certified to talk on the wrestling trade as an entire than “The Entire F’in Present.”
On the newest episode of “1 of a Sort With RVD,” Van Dam was requested about “the WWE model” of wrestling and the way it modified him as a performer. He acknowledged that it was a change for him and famous the notable variations between WWE and different promotions.
“After going to WWE, all people modifications considerably,” Van Dam mentioned. “It is, in a approach, the place what you are doing means extra. It is a completely different tempo. It is promoting, it is reacting, it is truly savoring the moments.”
Harkening upon the notion of particular person, high-impact strikes which means one thing, Van Dam referred to as out a handful that’s seemingly thrown away all too typically today, saying that they have an inclination to matter extra in WWE.
“As a substitute of taking a Canadian Destroyer, standing up, taking a Superkick, standing up, taking a Piledriver, popping again up, taking a DDT and for some cause staying down or getting down, spearing the opposite man, after which for some cause, going again to promoting.”
The opposite, Van Dam defined, is simply how it’s exterior of WWE, which he thinks is not going to make somebody an enormous star within the promotion.
“You do not promote. You do not perceive the mainstream mentality of reaching everybody and pulling their feelings in,” the previous WWE Heavyweight Champion mentioned. “Till you study that, you are not going to be as massive of a star.”
