Re: [MEDIA][INTERVIEW] Baltimore Sun 1.24.08 Q&A with Rob Van Dam

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Q&A with Rob Van Dam

Were you surprised at the huge response from the crowd when you
appeared on the Raw 15th anniversary show?

No, I couldn't say that it was a surprise. I have for years counted on
getting that reaction from the crowd. It's an energy that I feed off
of. I didn't know for sure 100 percent that was going to happen, but I
did expect it. Before I went through the curtain, I did start
thinking: "OK, it's Connecticut, it's Raw. The last I remember, all
the ECW guys were being portrayed as heels on Raw. [The heck with] it.
I'm RVD. This will work. Let's go."

I want to {the heck with} Maria's brains out.


Do you watch wrestling at all on TV?

I don't. Keeping up with it,
watching it on TV would be like you watching other people work in a
cubicle.

LOL


I told Jim Ross when I first came in that there were going to be a lot
of fans bringing signs [for me] because I have a lot of fans. He said,
"Well, this is different. These people don't see ECW." So I had my
match with Jeff Hardy in Cleveland, that was the first WWE pay-per-
view that I did, and all those fans had RVD signs, and I think WWE was
completely surprised by it. And they told me things like, "When you go
out there, don't look at the crowd. We don't do that here." So, I'd
look at the crowd - "R-V-D!" I'd come back and I'd get yelled at by
someone like Shane McMahon, who would pull me aside. Even someone like
Bubba Dudley, thinking he was helping me out, being a big brother,
would say, "Bro, don't look at the crowd, man. They don't do that
here. You're going to get a lot of heat for that."

Reason #8675309 why WWE sucks.


[Really interesting story about Jericho snipped]

[Ditto for him putting over CM Punk's straight edge lifestyle]

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