Rob Van Dam opens up about his upcoming AEW appearance in Philadelphia.
The Hall of Famer will once again be teaming with FTW Champion HOOK in tag team action, his third match for AEW this year. However, due to his work with Tony Khan’s promotion he has since been “unbooked” by WWE, something he alluded to happening after his first match against Jack Perry. RVD spoke about WWE canceling his upcoming WrestleMania 40 appearance and AEW bringing him in for this Wednesday’s Dynamite on the latest edition of his “One of a Kind” podcast. He says these two things happened in a span of 30-minutes.
I got a phone call, I picked up because it was from the big company, and had a little talk, and got officially unbooked from Philly. About 30 minutes later, I got another message. Got officially rebooked in Philly from another company. So that was pretty good. In the meantime, I’m just reading letters. ‘A. E.’ It happened like when I got there and before I left, before I even had a chance to think about the first message, so that’s just the universe doing what it does, which is pretty awesome,” said RVD. “The reason I don’t want to put too much detail on that is because word got out when I said before that I was unbooked and it kind of worked against me because then I had someone inside working on trying to do some damage repair and then I got people on Twitter saying, ‘Let’s pass this around, man. We need RVD rebooked,’ and I was trying not to give that much attention to it because I had someone working on it. Either way, different dates, same town. The one is becoming more and more valuable than the other one to me each time anyway.
As for his match with HOOK, RVD says he is excited to be teaming with the son of Taz once again.
I didn’t know until I saw the flyer that I would be teeming with HOOK again. So that’s awesome. I know that people have really wanted to see that and they enjoyed tag team, as did I, set-up last time. Hopefully, Daddy will be there this time, too, and I’ll be able to see Taz again. Maybe Taz can give me some pointers.
On a separate episode of his podcast, RVD spoke about lucha-libre legend Rey Mysterio and the cultural impact he has had on the pro-wrestling industry. You can read about that here.
(H/T and transcribed by Fightful)
