Rob Van Dam isn’t a big fan of celebrities getting matches at big wrestling events.
On the latest episode of the 1 Of A Kind Podcast, the WWE Hall of Famer spoke about the upcoming celebrity tag team match at SummerSlam featuring Jelly Roll. Van Dam made it clear why he finds these types of matches offensive and insulting.
“You have to be an athlete to be able to do it,” Rob Van Dam said. “And so, like for me, it’s always offensive, because I take the perspective that in order to have a celebrity take a spot on a wrestling card, everyone else has to work around them to make it look like just anybody could do it. And I don’t like that, because not everybody could do it…
“It’s always insulting, though, for me, like when people feel like it’s, like it’s easy, like we’re just playing, or like just anybody can do it… I always will feel defensive about the fact that my career took an incredible amount of physicality, an amazing amount of durability to be able to take, you know, a sh*tload of punishment on a nightly basis, besides having the talent to even pick up the timing and have cool moves and any of that. And so I feel like a lot of that just gets thrown out the window in order to f*cking make this work.” [H/T: WrestlingNews.co]
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