Rob Van Dam was a guest on the McDonnell-Douglas radio show here in Southern California Tuesday afternoon. McDonnell-Douglas, “The show of record in Southern California” is located at 710 AM in Los Angeles. It was a pretty fast one segment interview.
Highlights:
He talked about his comic book store.
-RVD is still having fun with his comic book store. He still goes in every week.
-Al Snow will be the guest at the store Thursday. He will be signing autographs from 6-8 pm.
-RVD noted that he didn’t know if Al would be bringing “Head” but he might be looking for some!!!
-He also mentioned he faced Al in some of his first matches as a pro back in 1990.
-Upcoming guest at the store a week from Saturday will be actor Andrew Bernowski (spellcheck) who was “Leatherface” in the recent Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie.
Doug jokingly asked if RVD could pick up that little guy Mark Henry.
-RVD said he is still recovering physically from his match with Mark Henry a few weeks back. He put over that Henry is “The Worlds Strongest Man”.
Then talk turned to the Royal Rumble this weekend.
-He said that this is his third Rumble. What he likes is that fans get to see match-ups they don’t normally get to. They get Smackdown guys facing Raw guys and others who just haven’t worked in the ring together in a very long time.
Next was a cool question from Doug, asking if he has ever had any confrontations with fans on the streets or in a bar giving him trouble about wrestling being “fake”.
-RVD said he first got into the business at 18 and had to prove himself both inside AND outside of the ring for the first several years. Up until he was 23 he would go looking for those types of fights. He said back then he was the “jerk at the bar wearing tank tops and bumping into people” looking for trouble.
-He would really only hear trouble from people “deal with a lot of crap” when he would be signing “self-promoting” somewhere like a Wal-Mart.
Board-op and sounds effects guru Dave Joseph then asked if he liked to work bigger venues or the smaller ones.
-RVD’s first answer was one WWE would like to hear from him more often…….
Dead silence……
He got cut off!
-He then said the bigger crowds are more of a treat. He likes the small venues also though because they are more intimate. He put over the Green Bay crowd big from Monday night.
-He talked about ECW crowds saying that the 2,000 from an ECW event can give off the same energy as 10,000 at a WWE event.
-He said they all like to put “asses in the seats” though because their “pay does reflect” it.
About his contract negotiations
-He said there is not a lot of movement right now but that everything is fine. There is nothing positive or negative to report at this time. He feels, though, that he will be with WWE for a long time.
That was it! Nothing earthmoving today from RVD. He is a fun interview to listen to though and Joe and Doug are great (Yes I said Doug too!) are great with him.
