Rob Van Dam reflects on his bittersweet WWE Hall of Fame induction.
Rob Van Dam was a top star in ECW, and he also had a successful run in WWE that included a brief run as WWE Champion. WWE inducted Rob Van Dam into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2021, when the ceremony was held in the WWE ThunderDome due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Speaking on Wrestling Life with Ben Veal, Rob Van Dam looked back on his WWE Hall of Fame induction.
“It was very validating to be thought of on that Mount Rushmore of wrestlers. That’s something that they can never take away from me now. It felt like I elevated up to a level, and now people 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 Hall of Fame for so many years and watching the really long speeches. They told us to go three to five minutes on our speeches after hearing [really long speeches]. So it kind of felt like when I was in high school, all the grades sell M&M's to pay for the senior trip, and then when you’re finally a senior, then you capitalize on it, but by the time we made, they stopped taking the boat to the Bahamas, and instead we got screwed because we just went to this local amusement park. That happens to me sometimes. But the thing about the time and there not being people there, if you’ve seen my speech, then you’ve seen like nine minutes of it, but the whole thing was actually 27 minutes, so I actually went in theory maybe 24 minutes over the three-minute request. I didn’t hear anything. When I got back, I said, ‘That was a little long, wasn’t it?’ 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," Rob Van Dam said.
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