Was going to WWF the right move for RVD? Let us know in the comments!

@jeremeybuckley

8 ай бұрын

Yes, you have a limited time to make money in wrestling. You can always go do other wrestling promotions later.

@nickshough9707

8 ай бұрын

It was his only choice at the time

@bb-gc2tx

8 ай бұрын

great move like your hair transplant 🤣

@sonyafaraha

8 ай бұрын

There was nowhere else to work. What a dumb question 😂

@o3zero3

8 ай бұрын

I love the way his girl stares at him as he speaks. Any man would agree, that's a good sign!

Rob Van Damme one of the nicest men in pro wrestling every time I see him he still remembers me Good Dude

@michaelvanetten7704

8 ай бұрын

Cannabis is a wonderful medicine

@JaxTheGat

8 ай бұрын

And I’m sure is not known for his short term memory either. So that’s really impressive. 😂

Man, 2002-2003 RVD should of been champ, at least once.

4:30 "Then somebody said No we should put someone else in there". Then RVD precedes to do the best John Laurinaitis impression I've ever seen while not naming him.

His Heyman impression is amazing 😮

Paul Hayman was the first in line for that money. That's why ECW folded. Mike Awesome was the first to jump ship as it happened. He dropped the title and appeared on Nitro unannounced.

@phillyphiltheking

8 ай бұрын

I would say The Dudleys and Taz jumped before Mike

@dodolemagnifique

8 ай бұрын

I thought that he went to WCW while still being ECW champ. Vince agreed to send Taz, a WWE employee to take the belt from Awesome in an ECW event.

@yoholmes273

8 ай бұрын

No. Mike AWesome signed with WCW and later then dropped the belt to Taz...who was imunder a WWE contract at the time. It was the only time a WCW contract talent wrestled a WWE talent for The ECW Title. BUt you're right about one thing. Heyman was a conman schister.

@davidkelling159

8 ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure ECW folded because he's a POS who drove himself and everyone around him into debt with lies and shady business practices

@TheOneKryssAnderson

8 ай бұрын

Duh

You know I agree that the attitude era was a major ripoff of what ECW was doing at that time but maybe mattresses and mats would've helped alot of the ECW originals in the long run

Word. It’s infuriating how WWE would claim that ECW’s ideas could never appeal to a broader audience while at the same time stealing ECW’s ideas to appeal to a broader audience. The ratings during the attitude era was insane and they were clearly influenced by ECW.

@Tainopisno1

8 ай бұрын

Yep Vince McMahon and wwe are a bunch of 2 faced pricks to this day still especially with there independent contracting clause bs in wwe contracts and wwe won't let the wrestlers form a union which us against the federal law when wwe threatened wrestlers if they formed a union, it's all cause of Vince McMahon.

@sameoldsameold9239

8 ай бұрын

Imagine if ECW had similar production values and level of TV exposure at the time.

@KoToCoNDoR

6 ай бұрын

Actually it was WCW who implemented that first, and since it was working then WWF jumped on the bandwagon

My favorite impression is still his Shawn Michaels impression, the eye cross murdered me lmao

Rob’s got Stockholm’s Syndrome with ECW. Paul could barely pay his talent, and ran the company into the ground.

Get you a woman that looks at you (with adoration in her eyes) the way Katie Forbes looks at RVD

@polarfamily6222

8 ай бұрын

Dude... That's the look of a woman upset that it's not her turn to puff puff 🤣

The sad thing is, a lot of ECW talent relied on the hardcore aspect which limited how far they could go in WWE. Who is Sandman without the cane? Who is Balls Mahoney without the chair? Who is RVD if he can't do the Van Terminator? Very few ECW talents could work a traditional match and be entertaining but RVD was a great athlete with a nice toolbox of moves that translated well to the WWE style. He deserved a long run at the top.

@leigh7507

8 ай бұрын

Tajiri, Mike Awesome, RVD, Lance Storm could all wrestle without the weapons

@Wizard4169

8 ай бұрын

This was only true towards the end of ECW. At their peak they had a pretty diverse group of workers. They had guys who could do traditional technical wrestling, trading holds and throws. They also helped introduce lucha libre to the US. They only went to almost exclusively hard-core after much of their talent got lured away by other promotions.

Eh I wouldn't consider it selling out, to not use actually steel chairs on a person, like dude you trying to legit kill people? or give them life long serious medical problems, I am sorry but its entertainment not a death battle. If some dude looked at that stuff and went "I rather not end up paralyzed by the time I am 35...." That's not selling out

@kiezersosay49

8 ай бұрын

They get a spanking and sent to there rooms...

RVD's Paul Hayman and Jim Ross impersonation were hilarious.

@harry-thepug76

8 ай бұрын

RVDS Paul Heyman is good but his J.R. Impression is absolute...SHIT!

@rammstein909

8 ай бұрын

Dude all his impressions are hilarious and on point you should check out his you shoot interview clips

I met rvd once at the Poughkeepsie Civic Center in New York back in 1997. It was ECW’s first show there. To be honest, he was a real asshole. With that said though everyone has a bad day and I probably caught him at a bad time. I remained a fan and still have respect for him. He’s an amazing athlete and was very under rated in WWE. He should of had a long championship run.

@djonenonly8381

8 ай бұрын

I use to work in NEWARK NJ EWR AIRPORT I had to be at work at 4am.... I walked into to open the shop I walked through the food court and I saw RVD himself sitting alone at a table I went to to him like yo your RVD right and he was like yeah lol gave me an autograph.... he was cool azel wit me it 4am to.... this was in 2006

@JoeR203

8 ай бұрын

I'd go to the ECW shows in Danbury, CT. (The only one I missed happened to be a PPV) and after one show, RVD came out to meet fans and sign autographs. I remember a father was there with his son and the guy told his son "That was cool. He didn't have to do that. Nobody else came out to sign autographs but this guy stayed behind and did." I remember at one show, security was ready to confiscate my digital camera (they were new at the time). They thought I was taking video. It looked like a video camera but I showed the guy it was a digital photo camera that put the pics directly onto a 3.5" floppy disk (Sony Mavica). After a couple of minutes, he got word over his radio that it was okay and he walked away. I had some great pics. A close up of Francine's ass lol and a cool shot of RVD in mid air as he jumped off the top rope onto Da Baldies who were on the floor outside the ring. Sadly my PC crashed and I lost the pics and the original files on the floppy disk were corrupted somehow.

I’ve always had a great respect for RVD and all he’s done. He is definitely one that I always mention when people say underused for a great talent. When he came to WWE I got so excited because I thought wow this is going to be something special. And then the other shoe dropped and he disappeared which I don’t blame him for whatsoever. The man was awesome and had so many great matchups. Just a shame to let it go to waste.

0:00 Wait, he was part of the WWF briefly in 1997. It was during the ECW Invasion.

I remember Rob debuting as a Kid and immediately giving Jeff Hardy all he could handle I Truly was PISSED like who tf does this guy think he is??😤😂😂…The WHOLE F’n SHOW that’s Who💯😎 favorite wrestler of all time now

One thing people don't talk about is that an ECW show was designed for a small venue, where everyone can see the tables break and the staples in someone's head. In WWF the show was for the TV watching audience. The camera makes everything look fake anyway, so why not fake everything? You can hide mattresses way over in the other part of the arena. Sure you know they are there, but you can't see them. At an ECW show everyone would see them.

Curious as to when this interview took place.

@hansjuker8296

8 ай бұрын

Last night at your mum's.

@Carlanthony273

8 ай бұрын

@@hansjuker8296 very mature response

@hansjuker8296

8 ай бұрын

@@Carlanthony273 hilarious though!

Why do y’all upload new videos of old clips that we’ve all seen before

@YerDad632

8 ай бұрын

You don’t have to watch it.

@jonpray5509

8 ай бұрын

@@YerDad632 You don't know if it's an old clip until you've watched it though... Not that it makes their question any less valid. It's also an incredibly stupid train of thought. It's like saying you "don't have to open spam mail" when your inbox is full of it, doesn't make it any more acceptable.

If I was rvd I'd just be like "I appreciate all u guys do but yall can work this patting urself on the back type shit amongst yourselves".

Rvd does the best impressions 😂 shawn michaels, JR, Heyman lool

Her focus though

it seems like every time a wrestler joins another brand, they end up talking shit on the previous brand they were in... everyone seems to do it at this point its probably for clout..(im not defending WWE, its just why not stick to to one brand and not jump ships back and forth)

0:43 Looking at AEW, this comment has not aged well.

Didn't this dude debut on AEW? What happened to him?

He wanted to get paid. Walked out of ecw with most everyone else at the end.

Why is his wife on the stage? She’s just sitting there like a dork

@GameTime-yj6qv

8 ай бұрын

Good question. I would feel uncomfortable being up there if my wife was the one being interviewed .

@eclectica1

8 ай бұрын

It's clearly not the whole interview shown here. Highly likely that she was asked some questions too.

@djonenonly8381

8 ай бұрын

money hungry clout chasing hoes same as all of em

@UnknownVillain007

8 ай бұрын

She's a thot who wants the RVD spotlight

@GhostJamm

8 ай бұрын

I was wondering who that was. I figured it was an indy wrestler that I didn't know.

And that is how they killed wrestling.

0:42. Rob youre a great guy, but it is a business.

But wasn't Vince the financial backer for ECW!?

@SauceOnChickenBall

8 ай бұрын

That was the conspiracy. Paul said Vince wasn't for years, then it came out that Vince was paying Paul and ECW. It upset some people

5:27 Is he freakin' stoned or somethin? I began laughing at him and not with him. RVD 420!

@augustushaynes1311

13 күн бұрын

Are you stoned? He was doing a Heyman impersonation. A good one at that.

Who’s the girl and why’s she there? 🤔

@themachoechidnaugandarandy7583

8 ай бұрын

It's a dude some other wrestler

@VictorLugosi

8 ай бұрын

@@themachoechidnaugandarandy7583that’s his wife

People were COMPETING to take better care of you?... and that's a bad thing? Man RVD, I like you, but that's a terrible response to the world where ppl are better getting by and most companies are actively trying g to screw you over at every turn.

Imagine claiming WWF stole ECW stuff meanwhile ECW is copying what WWF created because pro wrestling wasn't like that until Vince started expanding.

What is that creature sitting next to RVD?

@SaudiGod

8 ай бұрын

It’s called a woman. Most of you wresting nerds haven’t seen or spoke to one.

@lorddowski

8 ай бұрын

You got the "it" part right. @@SaudiGod

@stevenlornie1261

8 ай бұрын

@@SaudiGod thankfully, not that one. Give you nightmares.

Sounds bitter. It’s ironic because in the end the only one who buried rvd was rvd.

@AkshayKumar-vd5wn

8 ай бұрын

How did that happen?

Whos the fat bird 🤷🤷🤷

I love this but who in the everloving heck is this bargain bin Kim Kardashian

@ll7868

8 ай бұрын

Katie Forbes, she's an amateur wrestler/MMA fighter, she's part of Lingerie Fighting Championships. She has a massive ass, uses it as a weapon.

Paul Heymanbergstein sold out. Gee...who would have guessed.

@ottoandersson2216

5 ай бұрын

Every... single....time...

the plastik lady next to him is annoying

@freshprinceofcharlotte

8 ай бұрын

She was staring at his soul lol

@YerDad632

8 ай бұрын

*plastic

@cactusjackhausen8508

8 ай бұрын

That's his wife and you can clearly see that she absolutely adores him. A rare quality. He's a lucky guy

@MiketheNerdRanger

8 ай бұрын

Why? She not even doing anything

RVD should thank the WWE for gimmicking the s*** and not allowing him to just take bumps on concrete, or he'd be in a wheelchair right now lol, really, wrestlers are their own worst enemy, it's like they want to get hurt, like they really crave that wheelchair lifestyle

Boring outside ECW. Same stuff every match with poor mic skills.

RVD quit crying.

He doesn't look quite right to me. Looks like someone who has permanent damage from doing too many drugs. Like his impressions still though.