Rob Van Dam believes things between CM Punk and All Elite Wrestling will eventually work itself out.
On the latest episode of the 1 Of A Kind with RVD, WWE Hall of Famer Rob Van Dam was asked if he believes the issues between CM Punk and All Elite Wrestling will work out. RVD thinks they will because it’s impossible to truly burn bridges in professional wrestling.
“I don’t see why not. I mean, the fans love him and always seem to wanna see him,” Rob Van Dam said. “I don’t see why not unless there’s some burned bridges that I don’t know about, which usually I’ve always heard that bridges are flame retardant in this business, and I find that to be true.
“But I can’t say that I really know him really well, you know what I mean? Like right when you’re at work, and I’ve explained this lots of times for me at least, and it’s probably like that with him too – you got a competitive vibe, you know? You have to, right? You know, you’re a little bit more defensive, you’re vibing way different than you are when you’re chilling at your own house, you know, with your family or whatever. So that’s all I know is the guy at work and, you know, he seemed professional.”
RVD went on to tell a story about the first time he took notice of CM Punk when the two were working together in WWE’s version of ECW, and there were issues between Punk and Test during an international tour.
“The first time I remember really paying attention to [CM Punk] was when Paul [Heyman] started putting him over,” Rob Van Dam said. “I don’t know. We did an international tour and he was dating Maria Kanellis. Test was dating Kelly. Kelly. SmackDown and Raw were on different tours at the same time in the same countries, but they were split up into two different teams.
“And so Kelly Kelly was on the tour that CM Punk and I was on, and Test was on the other one. And Test was from what I understand, ‘being a guy on the road,’ at the same time, checking up on Kelly, like really hard and doing that through CM Punk.
“Like I guess he was texting CM Punk trying to check up on her and ‘You tell her this’ and ‘You tell her that,’ and my understanding of it is that after a little bit, CM was like, ‘F*ck him. He can take care of his own relationship. I’m not in the middle of all this.’ And Paul Heyman said that Test’s response when CM said whatever or quit responding in the way that he wanted him to, Paul said that Test said, ‘Does he think I won’t slap him?’ And Paul’s response was ‘Oh, my money’s on the tattooed kid.’ [H/T: Wrestling Writing]
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