Rob Van Dam explains why he finds celebrity involvement in wrestling to be “offensive”

While speaking on his podcast, WWE Hall of Famer Rob Van Dam gave his thoughts on celebrity involvement in wrestling…

“You have to be an athlete to be able to do it. And so, like for me, it’s always offensive, because I take the perspective that in order to have a celebrity take a spot on a wrestling card, everyone else has to work around them to make it look like just anybody could do it. And I don’t like that, because not everybody could do it… It’s always insulting, though, for me, like when people feel like it’s, like it’s easy, like we’re just playing, or like just anybody can do it… I always will feel defensive about the fact that my career took an incredible amount of physicality, an amazing amount of durability to be able to take, you know, a s–tload of punishment on a nightly basis, besides having the talent to even pick up the timing and have cool moves and any of that. And so I feel like a lot of that just gets thrown out the window in order to f—ing make, make this work.”

RVD brought up an incident with rap group Insane Clown Posse from ECW…

“Before you even finish your question, it sounds like you’re talking about when ICP came and they came, me and Sabu beat the s–t out of them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Take it easy on them at all. And I broke Shaggy 2 Dope’s eardrum. He wrote about it in his book… Everyone knows that I didn’t go exceptionally hard on him, but I didn’t hold back either… They even had wrestling training, but we looked at them like they weren’t us, because they’re not… If they didn’t respect what we’re doing before, they’re going to respect it afterwards.” (quotes courtesy of WrestlingNews.co)