<a href=”http://www.pwinsider.com/ViewArticle.php?id=44680&p=1&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+pwinsider+%28PWInsider+Latest+Articles%29″>PWInsider.com</a> reports on an interview with RVD.
Before we get to the highlights, here’s where you can go for the full interview
<a href=”http://www.fanhouse.com/2010/01/29/catch-rob-van-dam-while-you-can/”>Interview with The Whole F’n Show</a>
On Bret Hart’s return:
I think it was really good for Bret. I know he’s been wanting to return for a long time but didn’t think that it was realistic, so these special circumstances of him showing up there for a limited time, the fans were obviously very excited about seeing Bret back in the WWE. It was huge. On a night when TNA had talked everybody into checking out their first Monday night show, it made them split back and forth to see Bret as well.
On what he would do to “spice up” wrestling:
I would say bring back the day of the jobber. When I was a fan, when I was younger, wrestlers were larger than life because I would watch them totally annihilate some local scrub, some guy that was in the ring, I didn’t know who the jobber was. We called those enhancement matches and they hardly ever do them anymore. That to me was how you build the wrestler, and when I found out two of these superstars would be battling each other, whether it was near me at a live show or when it was on Saturday Night’s Main Event, that was huge and it drew great interest and enthusiasm because I got to see these two big wrestlers who I’ve seen just destroy everybody actually face each other.
Ever since Monday Night Wars, every single match from the bottom to the top of the card seems like it has to be main-event quality — superstar vs. superstar, superstar vs. superstar — and then you gotta find a political way to go into the finish, you know, to try to deck one guy while doing what you want with the other. It’s a bunch of bulls**t I think. You know, I really think that the enhancement matches were what brought everybody into WWE in the ’90s.
On the possibility of returning to WWE or going to TNA:
I mean, it’s possible that I could be interested in either TNA or WWE if it was the right amount of work vs. pay ratio. That’s basically what it is, and I haven’t had that deep of conversations with anyone yet, really. So I don’t know if it’s out there or not, since I haven’t been the active one out there pursuing, you know, the information comes to me as it comes when they’re reaching out to me.
Whether the “old ECW” spirit can be recaptured again:
It’s gone. Those wrestlers, those of us who carry on that spirit will take it with us wherever we go, but it’s not a small flame waiting to ignite again, it’s not.
Caliber’s Three Cents – Yeah, Rob is right. Squash/jobbert matches are what brought people to WWE for the 90’s boom. I loved Barry Horowitz’s guest appearances on Nash Bridges.
