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WWE Corridor of Famer Rob Van Dam just lately appeared on Busted Open Radio to debate various completely different matters, which included the ECW legend sharing the dialog he had with John Laurinaitis concerning his induction, and the way WWE Chairman Vince McMahon already thought he was in. Highlights from the interview are under.
Recollects the dialog he had with John Laurinaitis about going into the WWE Corridor Of Fame:
“You realize, at any time when that 203 space code reveals up on my cellphone, I strive to not establish my emotions about it, . It was Johnny Ace [John Laurinaitis] and he simply mentioned, ‘hey, Vince wished me to name you and see should you’d be serious about being inducted into the Corridor of Fame this yr?’ In fact, I used to be like, ‘yeah, it’d be an honor. Completely.’ And I realized that – I feel it was Michael Hayes that instructed me, that they had been sitting across the desk, like they do, when it got here up, and I assume Vince mentioned one thing to the impact of, ‘too dangerous RVD is already within the Corridor of Fame, or he’d be candidate for this yr.’ And somebody mentioned, and I feel it was Michael Hayes, ‘Vince, RVD just isn’t within the Corridor of Fame.’ He thought I used to be. They saved coming by me, saying, ‘let me know should you need assistance or no matter.’ ‘OK, yeah, yeah, I’m nonetheless making an attempt to place my ideas collectively.’ I all the time plan on planning, however I by no means actually make it to the deliberate spot. I’m gonna spend a few minutes later, however I don’t. So lastly, I mentioned, what, I’m simply going to go on the market and simply say what involves my thoughts. Everybody appeared to love the speech, however I didn’t notice till later, that they had mentioned go three to 5 minutes, and Molly Holly was actually upset as a result of she had taken this – she had a extremely lengthy speech ready, , with assist, and she or he was like actually harm. For me, I used to be like, ‘effectively, I don’t know what I’m gonna say anyway. It sucks, although, three to 5 minutes.”
On the size of his speech:
“My complete life I’ve realized and stayed and listened to those nice, lengthy speeches by all these legends, and now I’m going to be in entrance of an empty enviornment and in three minutes I’m gonna say thanks.’ However I figured I used to be gonna go just a little bit longer, , perhaps 5 – 6 minutes and provides them stuff to edit. I went 26 minutes. Didn’t even notice it, I feel as a result of there was no person there, it was bizarre. I’d say one thing, and they might flip up the applause and switch it down, so I’d have an concept. Then I’d say one thing else. I had no concept I went that lengthy.”
(H/T and transcribed by Wrestling Inc.)
