Rob Van Dam Reflects On Backstage Heat With Major AEW Stars

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WWE Hall of Famer Rob Van Dam has reflected on a past issue with the Young Bucks, clarifying whether or not he had heat with the duo.

Before Matt and Nick Jackson were Executive Vice Presidents of AEW, the duo made names for themselves as independent talents.

The duo have both worked as extras/enhancement talents for WWE, which is where they first met Rob Van Dam.

Speaking on his 1 Of A Kind podcast, Van Dam revealed that his first impressions of Matt and Nick Jackson weren’t glowing.

Reflecting on the time he called the Young Bucks out for not shaking his hand, Van Dam said:

“I said something about when they walked by me, I guess in WWE, how they didn’t introduce themselves, which to old school rules, that was, I don’t want to call it a commandment.

“I guess it is actually, you know, it’s one of the biblical commandments of the dressing room, especially when you’re new. You’re supposed to introduce yourself a certain way, protocol, just like the f**king mafia.

“A made man cannot introduce himself to another made man. A made man has to be introduced by someone else in the middle, and we had our protocols too.

“Anyway, I just pointed that out, you know, they didn’t shake my hand or whatever. But I also did throw in something that could be taken as an insult, which I didn’t own up to at first because I was like, all I said was they didn’t shake my hand.

“But I did say something about them looking like two high schoolers, so that was something that was provoking, you know, looking back at it. I don’t think I even realized it when I said it, or maybe I did, but either way.

“They did the same thing a couple of nights later or something to Booker T and Booker T posted something about, ‘I see with my friend Rob’s talking about. You will shake my hand the next time you walk by me’ or something like that.

“Then Goldust had the same experience and then he said something about it. Then I saw while these two guys were in Japan, one of them is doing the RVD thing when they come out and the other one is doing Booker.

“I thought that was great, but that’s the whole heat that I know of anyway. I thought that it was great that they were capitalizing on it.”

Van Dam made his AEW in-ring debut on the August 9 edition of Dynamite, unsuccessfully challenging for Jack Perry’s FTW Championship.

The wrestling veteran has now commented on the reaction to his AEW debut, which you can read more about right here.

Rob Van Dam also revealed that he and Tony Khan have spoken about a potential AEW return.

You can read more about Van Dam’s AEW future at this link.

Transcription via WrestlingNews.co. 

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