Former WWE Chairman Vince McMahon had a specific sort of wrestlers he favored and employed, holding some in greater regard than others it doesn’t matter what their potential was, and WWE Corridor of Famer Rob Van Dam has seen this first-hand.
Throughout a latest version of his “1 Of A Sort” podcast, RVD was requested why his long-time rival Jerry Lynn did not make it in WWE following ECW’s closure in 2001. Van Dam defined that McMahon did not like the previous ECW World Heavyweight Champion.
“Effectively there’s just one option to put it: Vince did not like him,” RVD stated. “I attempted to point out Vince, you already know, what me and Jerry have been doing. So we had a match, it was on Warmth, or Sunday Evening Warmth I feel it might need been known as one time, and we had a match and we did our stuff on the market. It was quick, and we weren’t flying within the crowd and chairs and all that, however we did not want that anyway, that was simply icing on the cake. So we did our stuff, and I favored the match, however that is my understanding. What I used to be instructed was that Vince wasn’t a Jerry Lynn fan for some purpose.”
The match RVD was speaking about ended up being the penultimate match of Lynn’s time with WWE as he was let go in early 2002 after sitting out of motion as a result of a knee damage.
It was additionally the final time the 2 males wrestled for a whole decade as they’d ultimately resume their legendary rivalry in 2011 throughout their time in TNA. They had another match collectively in 2013 shortly earlier than Lynn retired from motion.
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