RVD Returning at MITB

[PHX]

Talking about when he was doing his whole silent gig? If so yeah he worked live events.

 

[Chris]

Did jericho work live events the deal before when he faced Punk at Mania? I'm assuming robs will be more like Shawn's used to be, work some Raws weekly and ppv (don't think he will work a lot of sds)

IDK if he did like the first month because of the gimmick he was doing, but afterwards, I'm pretty positive he did, especially during the summer.

 

[PHX]

He worked some even when he was quiet as he still stayed in his character.

As for RVD I'll be surprised if they don't try and use him for Smackdown house shows to try and get attendance up.

 

[Mick Donalds]

$10 says Kofi Kingston ends up being paired with RVD and they have a lame ass run as Tag team champions.

 

[Keith]

No you can debate whether Jericho is that much of a draw, but what does that have to do with this thread? The argument of said guy a go just because that other guy gets away with it always seems a weak one to me.

Besides Jericho is still the better performer in the ring, is motivated and useful to put guys over.

 

[SAIYANS]

Jericho putting a guy over means diddly shit because anyone from JTG to Ryback will go over him. He's one of the stupidest people there is in terms of protecting his w/l so a win over him is special, sadly. He does put on great matches, and rvd will as well under the umbrella, yet I digress ...

As noted earlier, Rob Van Dam was interviewed by VOC Nation Radio. Here are a few more highlights from the interview.

Nature of his current deal with WWE: "It's definitely not a couple of appearances and I'm gone."


WWE schedule: "I'm definitely not interested in a full time schedule. I asked WWE before I left if there was anything for me part time (like TNA had offered), and they wanted me back but they wanted me full time."


WWE changing their thoughts on wrestlers working mandatory full time schedules: "Now things have changed; there's different people in the office there that are more sympathetic and understanding to the road life combined with the wrestling career. They came around; this is going to be awesome. There is a lot of excitement."


The way that his signing impacted the industry: "There are a lot of moves that can be done in the ring to pop the crowd; there's not a lot of things that can be done to pop the industry - - guess what I did? BOOM!"


The power of the WWE brand: "A lot of people didn't notice a lot of what I did over the last 3 years. With one 48 second video, WWE made RVD more relevant than he had been in the past several years. A lot of fans don't watch (TNA). People were asking me if I retired, and I felt like a constant ambassador telling people to watch TNA to see me."

"You know, and I'm always promoting, 'No, no, Thursday nights on Spike every week.' And I've done that for three years. I don't know about you, but I get that all the time. All the time. And that's the difference between this and this."

Sounds a lot like Trips is in the front office now, reaching out to guys and he gets the grind, and is working things out whereas Vince was a full time or no time at all guy outside HBK and Taker

 

[Dale]

Eh, popping the industry is WAY over hyping it. Brock & Rock returning was popping the industry, not RVD

 

[PHX]

Seems like he ran into the same crossroad that every vet that goes over to TNA. They go over thinking they will do for TNA what guys going from WWE to WCW did for WCW and that doesn't turn out to be realistically since there still isn't much national awareness on TNA. He's very much overselling himself thinking this is going to be a boom in 2013 though.

 

[Mick Donalds]

Your return isn't going anywhere, Sir Smoke A Lot. In 3 months you'll be Kofi Kingston:

Putting on a cool spotfest every few PPV's and doing nothing else.

 

[SAIYANS]

Except he's Rob Van Dam, not Kofi. He will always be over, always be given merch to sale, and always be in the second tier title picture which now means the WHC. Heck his tag teams have always gotten a lot of TV time and hype in wwe. Plus the likelihood of him missing ppv is little compared to Kofi who hopes for 5 minutes on raw or sd and a random ass

Now I don't get the boom he's talking about, other than him blowing up twitter, but hey being talked about after years of not being talked about probably helps the ego

 

[Keith]

Except he's Rob Van Dam, not Kofi. He will always be over, always be given merch to sale, and always be in the second tier title picture which now means the WHC. Heck his tag teams have always gotten a lot of TV time and hype in wwe. Plus the likelihood of him missing ppv is little compared to Kofi who hopes for 5 minutes on raw or sd and a random ass

Now I don't get the boom he's talking about, other than him blowing up twitter, but hey being talked about after years of not being talked about probably helps the ego

But he hasn't been over for years, you are delurding yourself. He did little of note in TNA. RVD doesn't have the passion and is not in the right shape to do anything in WWE.

 

[SAIYANS]

What does wwe do with TNA. Jeff hardy did fuck all in TNA, and then came back to wwe and was massively over and loved. A good portion, the majority of the wwe audience doesn't even know the difference from TNA to a high school gym Indy scene, their existence doesn't matter. Nor is their existence a sign of what will happen when you get to wwe, Jeff Hardy and Christian are prime examples of that, as Christian was a top guy turned midcard wwe fodder and not massively over, while Jeff became a top draw and headliner.

The whole he did this in TNA thing, holds as much weight as saying Mistico was successful in Mexico and a guy like Cabana was big in ROH so they will be big in wwe idea. There's no correlation between success

 

[Deezy]

TNa is not relevant to WWE interests as far wwe fans are concerned Robs been retired since he left wwe. He wil get a very good response when he returns. Loltna

 

[Keith]

I think saying that most WWE fans are barely aware of TNA is an insault to WWE fans, basically like suggesting that they are mindless zombies who know nothing about wrestling outside of that.

Van Dam wasn't that over in WWE either, he had his moments, but that is a very long time ago. I blame him more for his TNA run bombing than the the company.

 

[Kiffy Lube]

After those last couple debacles with Jerry Lynn in TNA, I wish he wasn't coming back to WWE. He was fine being lazy in TNA but there is no reason for him at his age to take center stage in WWE again. He'll get in some spots at MITB but that's it. Nothing noteworthy.