16-Time WWE Champion Teases Blockbuster Return: “They Have My Number”
This former WWE Superstar recently talked about possibly returning to the Stamford-based promotion.
Rarely in wrestling history has a wrestler reinvented the art form stylistically like Rob Van Dam (RVD).
Van Dam was known for his unique in-ring style, which combined martial arts-influenced moves and high-risk offense.
He was also very agile despite his hefty frame, and as noted by Vince McMahon and Triple H during RVD’s Hall of Fame induction in 2021, he changed the style of wrestling.
He was well known for his stints with ECW in the late 1990s and with WWE during the Ruthless Aggression Era in the early 2000s, and later with TNA.
During his time in WWE, he held 16 titles (combined with the ECW World Heavyweight Championship, given to him by Paul Heyman after the company was bought by WWE) and famously won his first WWE Championship at ECW One Night Stand by defeating John Cena.
Van Dam left the company originally in 2007 but came back for a bit in 2014.
During an interview with TMZ Inside The Ring, Van Dam talked about a possible return to WWE if he gets the call.
Rob Van Dam Open To Returning To WWE For Another Round
In the interview, RVD was asked if he would be interested in a return to the Stamford-based promotion for a match or retirement tour.
He said that he is open to considering anything and that WWE has his number and can call him up about a return. He also mentions that he will be at WWE: World in the week leading up to WrestleMania 42.
I am open to considering anything. That’s part of being open-minded, trying not to shut anything out without at least considering it, and when it comes to something like that, they have my number, and they can talk to me. I’ll be appearing at WWE World. We can definitely have that conversation.
As far as a retirement tour, unless I change my perspective, which happens because you always look at it from a different place in life if you keep going, the way I feel now is that I don’t like the idea of labeling something as ‘retirement’ or I don’t want to know if I’m having my last match, when I am
At age 55, Van Dam still wrestles in the independent circuit.
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