Rob Van Dam: I Used To Think I Was Probably Close To Hanging Up My Boots, Now I Don’t Know
Rob Van Dam comments on his potential retirement.
Rob Van Dam comments on his potential retirement.
WWE Hall of Famer Rob Van Dam, 52, has been wrestling since 1990. At different points, he has been a top star in ECW, WWE, and TNA/IMPACT Wrestling. The legend was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2021, but he remains active. He made his AEW debut on the August 2 episode of AEW Dynamite and faced Jack Perry on August 9. Rob Van Dam returned on the September 23 episode of AEW Collision, where he and HOOK defeated Angelo Parker and Matt Menard.
Speaking on Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Rob Van Dam was asked about potentially winding down his in-ring career. He noted that he thinks about it sometimes, but he doesn’t think he’ll hang up his boots. Van Dam noted that he might stop taking bookings, but he won’t make a big deal out of being retired.
“Not really. I mean, you know, sometimes the thought goes through my head. If I’m having a bad travel day, for instance, I’m done, I hate this, I just want to be home, traveling sucks. I’ll have those moments inside my head. But they usually don’t last that long. I used to think I was gonna retire. That was like several years ago, and I thought I was probably close to hanging the boots up. Now, I just don’t even think I will. I think I’ll be like Dory Funk Jr. and just [keep going], and I may quit taking bookings. But I don’t think I’m gonna make a big deal out of being retired because the credibility of wrestlers retiring is so broad anyway. You know, so I don’t [know]. Sabu used to say, it’d be cool if we did a retirement tour, and we went around the world and wrestled for all the companies that we’ve wrestled for. But the timing of that didn’t work out too well, because he finished up before me,” Rob Van Dam said.
It is not known when Rob Van Dam will return to AEW TV.
Check out the card for the September 27 episode of AEW Dynamite here. Fightful will have live coverage of the show as it airs.
Rob Van Dam previously discussed his match against Jack Perry. Check out his comments here.
Thanks to Chris Van Vliet for sharing the quotes in this article.
