1. Rob Van Dam Talks About The Difference Between WWE Style & ECW Style
During a recent appearance on The Steve Austin Show podcast, former WWE Champion Rob Van Dam talked about the difference between WWE Style & ECW Style. Below is what he said:
“Well, there isn’t that many places to go, so if you’re talking about one-off indy shots than yeah, but with WWE, I felt like, when I went there there wasn’t anything else left. I hadn’t gone anywhere I went after ECW and WWE. I had a few indy shots here and there, but I did them very selectively. I did a movie and whatever, but when I went there I looked at it at the time of selling out artistically because of my perception of what WWE was. It seemed like it was a digitalized version of pro wrestling. When I do these concussion interviews, I think I had Balls Mahoney every night cracking me with that chair, the sound going out, everything was in slow motion. I didn’t know it can lead to long term damage obviously. That style, we were so proud of, we wanted to see ECW take off and wanted to connect with the crowd that enjoyed that like-minded difference. Once that folded, because I sacrificed a lot. I gave up on a lot of offers to stay there, and once that went down, and there was no other option, if I wanted to continue to be a professional wrestler on television in the United States, WWE was all there was. Paul was already there, so when I was ready and made the call. I did look at it like, ok, I’m doing this for the money, the business, not for the art, because they are probably going to call me, “Robot Van Dam” and have me go out there and erase my past because that is what I thought about them. Plus, while ECW guys were beating up each other, I would see WWE guys tap each other’s backs with a chair, and go down; it was insulting to me. They started exposing more of the entertainment side, and being trained by the Original Sheik, I have those old school values that I cannot compromise, and I figure, why should I now? I’m on my way out so I’m not trying to do much, you know what I mean? It’s hard for me to change my values now about beating a guy and winning the match.”
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