On the March 19th episode of AEW Dynamite, Cope (Adam Copeland) challenged Jon Moxley for the AEW World in a street fight.
During the match, Cope suplexed Moxley onto a spike 2x4 that he calls "Spike." As Moxley got up, "Spike" was still stuck in his back.
“It's not my thing, not my kind of thing. That's not wrestling to me, but obviously that is sacrificing a lot for the business, I mean that could be said about it. But the more AEW has been doing stuff like that, the more personally I feel like I would rather be associated with WWE than AEW you know?" Rob Van Dam said on his 1 Of A Kind podcast.
He continued, “Like a couple years ago it was like, ‘Man they're growing, they're trying things to get up there,’ and then there's a feel that like the inmates are running the prison, which there always has been, for better or worse. I mean that was used as a good point at first, like ‘Hey, the boys are running it, cool,’ but for me this serves as an example of why that might not be a good idea but it is a style of wrestling. I personally look at it as being lower than the standard, substandard because it's going to draw only a certain niche crowd that's into that kind of stuff. I didn't like it. It's really crazy dangerous. I don't want to knock their freedom of expression. I think that's probably cool to them or else they would turn it down when it was at the idea phase if it didn't sound cool, right? So congratulations to pulling off a crazy stunt, death defying stunt for better or worse, you know?”
RVD has wrestled for AEW in the past, but not since April 2024.
He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2021.
