Below are a couple of top news stories of the day, featuring The Undertaker, Rob Van Dam and The Big Show.
• On his “1 Of A Kind” podcast, WWE Hall of Famer Rob Van Dam revealed that he almost got to face The Undertaker at WrestleMania during the early days of his career.
However, the decision was eventually made to not have him face The Phenom because he wasn’t “over enough” at that point in his career.
Here’s what the former Hardcore Champion said:
“I was told at one point when I was first there in WWE getting one of those first momentum rides. There’s a story that they were thinking of putting me in WrestleMania, maybe it was against The Undertaker, I’m not sure. It sounded like a main event spot or at least a really high on the card spot, and said party said, ‘No he’s not over enough’.”
The Undertaker retired with a WrestleMania record of 25-2, while RVD has a WrestleMania record of 4-0.
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• During an interview on New Day: Feel The Power, The Big Show revealed that he hates hitting Triple H with a chop on the chest because he ends up hurting his hand due to HHH’s pecs being so muscular.
Here’s what the former WWF Champion said:
“The worst to chop, the absolute worst to where I don’t chop him is Triple H. He’s got such an upper chest when he’s in the corner and he (flexes), his upper chest is so hard and peaks, it’s like slapping two bowling balls. It makes noise but your hand, it hurts me more. The bones in my wrist will hurt.
Hunter is like, ‘Give me a chop’. ‘No, it hurts me’ and he starts like, ‘What do you mean it hurts you?’ He’s laughing at me like I’m a big wuss because I don’t want to chop him.
You know how Hunter is, once he learns something like that, he’ll ride you every night, the entire tour, and won’t let it go.”
