WWE Hall of Famer Rob Van Dam (RVD) spoke with This Is Wrestling Life on a number of topics, including his WWE Hall of Fame induction taking place during the “Pandemic Era.”
RVD said, “It was very validating, you know, to be thought of on that Mount Rushmore of wrestlers, that’s something that they can never take away from me now, like it felt like I elevated up to a level and now, people life yourself refer to me as a Hall of Famer. It’s very prestigious, so I was honored. The fact that it was during COVID and we didn’t have a crowd was kind of disappointing after going to the Hall of Fame for so many years and watching the really long speeches, and then they told us to go 3-5 minutes on our speeches after hearing these guys. The thing about the time and there not being people there, if you’ve seen my speech, then you’ve seen like 9 minutes of it, but the whole thing was actually 27 minutes, so I actually went in theory, maybe like 24 minutes over the three-minute request. I didn’t hear anything when I got back, except I said that was a little long wasn’t it, but I had no idea until I saw the whole thing that it was that long, you’re playing off of somebody turning the volume up and down on a response, I’ll have to get in it again.”
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