Professional wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer Rob Van Dam who is a former WWE World Champion and a former TNA World Heavyweight Champion recently looked back at the segment he did that got Impact Wrestling banned from Twitch.
Rob Van Dam has a very long career in professional wrestling. He started his professional wrestling career back in 1990 but it took him quite a time to earn the ultimate fame. He was an ECW original where he worked for five years before the promotion got purchased by WWE.
Rob Van Dam Discusses The Segment That Got Impact Banned From Twitch
After that he transition to WWE and started working for the promotion. From the very first day in WWE has been portrayed as an upper mid card. He was introduced in WWE as a member of team Alliance in 2001 and he was one of the strongest men of team Alliance.
After the end of WWE vs Alliance storyline, Van Dam started working solo. Once again WWE started to treat him as a mid card. Every now and then he was provided world title shots but his main focus remained on the Intercontinental Championship and the Tag Team Championships.
He won the WWE intercontinental championship for a total number of six times. Except of that he won the Tag Team Championship three times in total as well. WWE treated him as a main event star for the first time in 2006 when he won the Money in the Bank ladder match at WrestleMania 22. He went on to challenge John Cena for the WWE championship at ECW One Night Stand and he defeated Cena to win his first and only WWE Championship.
He was also awarded the ECW World Heavyweight Championship when the promotion was restarted by WWE. In 2007 he was let go by WWE and he started working on the independent circuit.
In 2010 he was signed by TNA Wrestling and here he was treated as the main event star as well. In 2013 he had a short run in WWE once again but things did not work out pretty well for him this time. In 2021 he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.
He is definitely a legend of professional wrestling who mostly became famous during his WWE and ECW days and he had been inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame recently. So we think it was quite harsh for him to make such a comment.
Rob Van Dam who is a former WWE World Champion and a former TNA World Heavyweight Champion recently spoke to René Duprée’s ‘Cafe De René’ podcast where he looked back at the segment he did that got Impact Wrestling banned from Twitch. He said;
“This was a skit that we did on IMPACT’s show with me and Katie [Forbes] and her girlfriend Jennifer [Barlow] and well, first off, just the fact that they started adding Jennifer into the promos made me realize like, ‘Wow. That’s how small the world is here’ is like we tweet a couple of times and then they pick up on our Twitter and that becomes the storyline.
“I’m like, you know, wow, because we posted some stuff and all of a sudden, it’s in the storylines. I was like, ‘Yeah, I’m okay with that. Whatever.’ But they did this skit, we were celebrating something and the three of us were in bed. You know, it was like a… I had a robe on and Jennifer says, ‘Let me see that Rob Van d*ck’ and rips it open. What else did she say?
It was ridiculous. They wrote it, you know what I mean? They edited it, they showed it and then got banned from Twitch TV which I guess was a pretty good part of their audience so they were banned and then had to get, you know, reinstated because no sexual content.”
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