Rob Van Dam gives update on in-ring status

It’s been nearly a year since Rob Van Dam last competed in the ring, but he does not consider himself retired.

The most recent match for RVD took place on the 4/20 edition of AEW Rampage in 2024, where he won a four-way over Komander, Isiah Kassidy, and Lee Johnson. On a new episode of Insight, RVD told Chris Van Vliet that — despite the 11-month absence — he feels great physically and is still taking wrestling bookings. He’s willing to discuss anything but is only going to take matches that make sense for him financially.

“It’s been a minute, it’s been almost a year since I’ve had a match,” RVD said. “And I do have some matches that are in conversation in the near future, like over the next — people are talking about even a year from now. And I’m like, ‘Dude, I don’t even know if I’m going to wrestle a year from now.’ You know what I mean? But stuff coming up that I can’t talk about yet. And stuff like bookings throughout all of 2026. For me, it’s something that it’s still like, if you want to discuss it, it’s a numbers issue for me. I feel great.”

Because wrestling retirements have so little credibility, RVD doubts that he’ll ever officially declare that he’s retired. He wants to maintain his value and avoid being in a place where he wrestles himself into the grave working his last match for five dollars.

“I just see me as just going with the flow and someday when you say, ‘Are you still wrestling?’ I might say, ‘Oh, it’s been six years. I might have a match,'” RVD said.

RVD is under a Legends contract with WWE and made appearances on a SmackDown episode and NXT episode in the latter half of 2024. He told Van Vliet that it’s a great time to be a WWE Legend right now because of how much the company is growing.

The full episode of Insight can be watched below: