• Home
    • Polls >
      • Archive >
        • Home
        • Home >
          • Old Home >
            • Home Orignal >
              • TNA PPV Center
              • WWE PPV Center
  • News
  • WWE
    • Results
    • Coverage
    • Spoilers
    • PPV Info
    • TV Ratings
    • TV Episodes
  • TNA
    • Results
    • Coverage
    • Spoilers
    • PPV Info
    • TV Ratings
  • ROH
    • Spoilers / Results
    • Coverage
    • PPV Info
    • Indy Results
  • Gallery
    • Pictures
    • Hot Women Gallery's
    • Championships
  • Contact
  • Columns
    • Past Blogs
Pro Wrestling Unleashed

RVD On Whether His Pot Use Has Held Him Back In Wrestling

11/3/2012

0 Comments

 
Rob Van Dam calls into Extreme Pro Wrestling Radio on 100.3 FM The Fan in Minneapolis. He talks with Big D, Tim, and Crisco the hosts of the show about how holding out and staying in ECW in its final years developed him, how physically he hasn’t changed, how he would change the X-Division, and if marijuana use has kept him from being the poster boy of the different organizations he’s been with. Highlights from the interview are as follows:

How staying in ECW in it’s last few years helped develop RVD into what he is today: … WWE didn’t want RVD to get over when I was there. They tried so much to… to… not get me… to…to… keep me from that. They didn’t understand why the fans liked me because I don’t fit the cookie cutter formula because I am a non-conformist. I’m so confusing to wrestling promoters, and I’m used to that, but because I stayed in ECW and learned how to express myself the way, ah, that I could connect with my fans, it made my strong Rob Van Dam character uncompromising… and I owe that to ECW. If I would have left and went to WCW way back then, they were gonna make me… they were gonna put a mask on me and make me one of those Glacier characters… “

On whether age has affected his physical condition and does he have to stop doing some moves because of it: “Not even in the slightest… not even a little bit. … as a matter of fact, every once in a while, I’ll pull out a move because I haven’t done it in awhile. I was wrestling Jeff Hardy, I think this was, like, two months ago, I went up to the top rope and I went, ‘you know what, I don’t think I’ve done a 450 splash in like 10 years’. Boom… I just bust it out.

“…I haven’t cut anything out, and if it was up to me, ah, I would change that X-Division title into hardcore rules and I would have 20 minute matches every night, bouncing off the guardrail, bring in a chair… and hell yeah, that’s what I got to show still!”

On whether being “420 friendly” has kept him from being “the man” everywhere he has been: “I would think, ah, with TNA, probably not so, because they, they usually like to make those references, ah, whenever they can. and I think they appreciate the extra, ah, the extra cool attention that it gets them. Obviously, my… high profile bust, when I got pulled over in Ohio with possession of 18 grams, uh, and..and… resulted in suspension and loss of the titles… I mean, there is no way in denying that that definitely knocked me off from the track that I was on. Ah, at the same time, I don’t mind going down in history for that or drawing attention to, ah, a cause that I believe is worthy…”

Van Dam also talks about the political climate in WWE vs. TNA, his current relationship with Paul Heyman, and more. The audio interviewis available at www.facebook.com/extremeprowrestlingradio



0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    RSS Feed

    Author

    Andy

    Archives

    September 2015
    January 2015
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012

    Categories

    All
    A.J. Lee
    A.J. Lee
    Aj Styles
    Aj Styles
    Aksana
    Alberto Del Rio
    Alberto Del Rio
    Alex Riley
    Alicia Fox. Natalya Neidhart.
    Antonio Cesaro
    Backstage News
    Backstage News
    Batista
    Big E Langston
    Big E Langston
    Big Show
    Bobbyroode
    Bo Dallas
    Booker T
    Bray Wyatt
    Breaking News
    Breaking News
    Brie Bella
    Brock Lesnar
    Brock Lesnar
    Brodus Clay
    Bully Ray
    Camacho
    Cameron
    Chris Jericho
    Chris Jericho
    Christian
    Cm Punk
    Cody Rhodes
    Cody Rhodes
    Curt Hawkins
    Curtis Axel
    Damien Sandow
    Daniel Bryan
    Daniel Bryan
    Darren Young
    David Otunga
    Dean Ambrose
    Dixie Carter
    Dolph Zig
    Dolph Zig
    Drew Mcintyre
    Dusty Rhodes
    Elimination Chamber
    Eva Marie
    Evan Bourne
    Extreme Rising
    Ezekiel Jackson
    Fandango
    Gail Kim
    Gler
    Goldberg
    Goldust
    Hall Of Fame
    Heath Slater
    Hhh
    Hornswoggle
    Huge/ Spoiler News
    Hulk Hogan
    Hulk Hogan
    Hunico
    Indy
    Jack Swagger
    Jack Swagger
    Jake Roberts
    James Storm
    Jbl
    Jeff Jarett
    Jeff Jarett
    Jerry Lawler
    Jerry Lawler
    Jey Uso
    Jim Cornette
    Jimmy Uso
    Jinder Mahal
    John Cena
    John Cena
    Jr
    Jr.
    Jtg
    Justin Gabriel
    Kaitlyn
    Kaitlyn.
    Kane
    Kevin Nash
    Kofi Kingston
    Kurt Angle
    Layla El
    Lita
    Magnus
    Main Event
    Main Event
    Mark Henry
    Mark Henry
    Mason Ryan
    Matt Morgan
    Mick Foley
    Mick Foley
    Mickie James
    Mvp
    Naomi.
    New Age Outlaws
    Nikki Bella
    Nxt
    NXT
    Page
    Paul Heyman
    Randy Orton
    Raw
    Rey Mysterio
    Ric Flair
    Rob Van Dam
    Rock
    Roddy Piper
    Roddy Piper
    Roh
    Roman Reigns
    Rosa Mendes
    Royal Rumble
    Royal Rumble
    R-Truth
    Rvd
    Ryback
    Samoa Joe
    Santino Marella
    Scott Hall
    Seth Rollins
    Shawn Michaels
    Sheamus
    SHELTON BENJAMIN
    Sin Cara
    Sin Cara
    Smackdown
    Spoilers
    Stephanie McMahon
    Steve Austin
    Sting
    Tamina
    Taz
    Tensai
    Terry Funk
    The Big Show
    The Great Khali
    The Great Khali
    The Miz
    The Shield
    Titus O’Neal
    Tna
    Tommy Dreamer
    Total Divas
    Ultimate Warrior
    Undertaker
    Vickie Guerrero
    Vince Mcmahon
    Vince Mcmahon
    Wade Barrett
    William Regal
    Wrestlemania
    Wwe
    WWE Network
    WWE Network
    Wyatt Family
    Wyatt Family
    Yoshi Tatsu
    Zack Ryder

    Tweets by @AR_Official_94

    RSS Feed

    RSS Feed

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
Photo used under Creative Commons from greatsufficiency