Rob Van Dam has had some great performances in All Elite Wrestling in 2023.
ECW Legend Rob Van Dam was a recent guest on INSIGHT with Chris Van Vliet. When asked about how his AEW Collision debut came about, RVD said he got the call while he was at a Legends Fest convention in Pennsylvania.
“I was at a convention in Hamburg, Pennsylvania,” RVD began. “Legends Fest and I got the message, you know? Hey, can you do the 23rd in Grand Rapids? Interestingly enough, last year, at this exact same time, they messaged me with that, September 5th, actually. And that’s when I got the okay to do it. It was like a year ago, and then I did it.
“But some time had passed then. But that day was near Battle Creek. Yeah, from Battle Creek hometown boys was so obviously, same idea. Again, that’ll be cool. It’s one week before, I’m going to be doing my show in Battle Creek, which those guys have been working on that for like a year promoting it. And it’s a big full circle return home and then just the week before they put me in Grand Rapids, which is just right down the street.”
When asked why he didn’t debut for All Elite Wrestling last year, RVD said it just came down to dropped communication.
“Communication dropped. So that’s it,” Rob Van Dam said. “Sometimes that would happen. Both of the companies over the years, every once in a while, would call, just to check out my schedule. I don’t hold it [the date]. I hold it in mind skeptically as a possibility. And that’s all because I know how it works.
“But that’s how it works, never hear from them again. And then it’s like, well, all right, whatever, I can hypothesize. You know, I wonder what did I do? But you know, I’m very stoic and in part of stoicism is really being able to accept things as they are and just let it roll right off my shoulder.”
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