Rob Van Dam Says He Is Offended By A lot Of Wrestling He Sees Today

Rob Van Dam has seen a lot of change in pro wrestling since he was trained 30 years with the WWE Hall of Famer discussing the matter on a recent episode of the Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling podcast. Check out excerpts from the interview below:

On wrestling today being very different from how he was trained: 

“I’m still offended by a lot of the stuff that I see nowadays. Because I was taught, and I hate it when people say, ‘Oh, I wasn’t brought up that way,’ no one was brought up that way, we have to adapt. Your perception changes when you’re an adult … The number one rule was to protect the business, always, always, always was, and then somewhere way down the road, it became, ‘Number one rule: safety first.’ Like, what?”

“The way we trained, if you got bloody, that was good for the match, it made it looked good. And there was no air allowed between anybody, my whole training with Shiek was about grabbing each other and bringing each other in tighter. Bringing each other in whether its a headlock, or a waistlock, or an armlock, it was always about coming in and squeezing. Anytime someone was on their back, boom, you better be jumping on him trying to pin him, trying to win. And that’s not the way I see a lot of wrestling today. A lot of times, it eats me up.

What’s the right way to put it? Some things are less than enjoyable for me to watch just because of that mentality, old school perspective that I have. because I see what’s missing and the audience might not always know what’s missing, but they just know they’re not connecting in the way they used to be, you know, back in the day with other wrestlers when it was different … What’s it gonna be, eventually? Unless it just goes straight up to a Broadway play.”

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