Former WWE star Ricardo Rodriguez who was elected as the best known wrestler by Dave Meltzer on the Wrestling Observer Newsletter in 2011 recently talked about his unlikely pairing with the former WWE champion and WWE Hall of Famer Rob Van Dam.
Ricardo Rodriguez started his professional wrestling career back in 2006. In spite of his Desire of being a professional wrestler he was mostly seen as a non wrestler. He was signed with WWE in 2010. After working in the Florida Championship Wrestling for one year he was promoted to the main roster.
Ricardo Rodriguez On His Pairing With RVD
He was mostly famous as the personal ring announcer and manager of former four times WWE World Heavyweight Champion Alberto Del Rio. What most people do not know that Alberto Del Rio was not the first wrestler he managed in WWE, it was the famous Tag Team Ascension.
After he was released by WWE in 2014 he returned to the Independence circuit where he won so many prestigious Championship including the world wrestling Council Puerto Rico Heavyweight Championship. He is currently active on the independent circuit and he is going really strong.
Ricardo Rodriguez who was a former WWE star recently spoke to It’s My House Podcast where she talked about his unlikely pairing with the former WWE champion and WWE Hall of Famer Rob Van Dam. He said;
“I didn’t get it at first. I really didn’t get it,” Rodriguez said. “We were sitting on the bleachers and it was myself, the matadors, Alberto and I think Sin Cara. Then Malenko comes up and he goes ‘hey, did they tell you?’
“I’m like ‘no sir.’ He’s like ‘you’re with RVD today.’ It was funny, but unless you know Malenko’s humor, it’s gonna be like ‘okay yeah, Malenko has a weird sense of humor where you can’t tell if he’s joking or not.’ So I couldn’t tell if he was joking or not. I was off TV at this point. So I was like ‘yeah whatever I wanna be back on TV.’ I didn’t question it at first, at least not out loud but in my head.
“Two weeks pass and I go to Malenko and I’m like ‘hey I appreciate the opportunity, thank you because I’m pretty sure you’re the one that vouched for it, but why?’ Just so I can kind of get an idea of how to vibe with Rob.
“I’ve loved Rob many years prior but Rob is very off to himself. He’s so relaxed that he’ll come say hello and then go away for a while. Whereas for me, Alberto and the Puerto Ricans, we were loud and always talking.
“So I asked Malenko, and he told me what they wanted to do was they wanted to build a bridge between Rob and the title which Alberto had at moment. And the bridge was this guy (points to self). That’s when I was like ‘oh okay, I get it. So yeah, I was basically the bridge between Alberto and RVD for the title.”
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