WWE Hall Of Famer Doesn’t Think He Will Ever Retire

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WWE Hall of Famer Rob Van Dam has addressed his in-ring future, commenting on potential plans for retirement.

While Van Dam wrestled six matches in the first four months of 2024, the former WWE Champion hasn’t wrestled since late-April.

Following an almost-year long absence from the ring, Rob Van Dam noted on Insight with Chris Van Vliet that he doesn’t think he’ll ever officially retire.

Noting that he’d rather price himself out of bookings than lower his value, he explained:

“I don’t (think I am), and I don’t think I will (retire). That’s how I feel right now. I feel like even if I don’t take wrestling bookings anymore, I don’t think I’ll make a big deal out of retirement.

“Because when wrestlers retire and they end up coming back and wrestling anyway. ‘No, I want one more match.’ For me, that is completely eating up the credibility that I had in wrestling retirement matches. I doubt that I’ll ever feel like, ‘No, I’m going to be different. I never want to wrestle right now. I’m done.’

“I just see me is just going with the flow. And someday, when you say, are you still wrestling? I might say, It’s been six years, and then I might have a match.

“I’ve always said also I want to price myself out and not wear myself and my value down. A lot of my peers, they were worth so much in their prime and then they are not worth as much, can’t get booked as much, so they come down and compromise and that has a cycle effect where they are worth less.

“But I’m not gonna do that, I’d rather have less people afford me until I don’t wrestle that way instead of wrestling myself into a grave and my last match was $5.”

Rob Van Dam last wrestled on the April 20 (4/20) 2024 AEW Rampage episode, winning an elimination four-way match against Isiah Kassidy, Komander and Lee Johnson.

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