Professional wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer Rob Van Dam who is also a former WWE World champion recently looked back at his WWE World Championship match against John Cena from the ECW One Night Stand pay per view event of 2006 and revealed that he never expected the fans in the arena would be that much hostile towards John Cena.
Rob Van Dam won the WWE Money in the Bank ladder match in 2006. Back then, there was no separate Money in the Bank pay per view match to host the money in the bank ladder matches. They used to be booked at WrestleMania. This was the second ever Royal Rumble match.
Rob Van Dam Reveals He Never Fans At ECW One Night Stand 2006 Would Be So Negative Towards John Cena
Van Dam decided to cash in his contract at the ECW One Night Stand pay per view event of the same year. WWE was planning to reopen ECW just after the mentioned event. So they had Van Dam win the WWE Championship at the mentioned event and he pick up the victory over the Mighty John Cena. It was a really big win.
The arena was filled with hardcore ECW fans who completely loathed John Cena and he received extreme negative reaction from the fans. They were all behind Van Dam, who won the match and the title. It is believed ECW One Night Stand 2006 was one of the biggest day which gave us tons of hardcore Cena haters.
Rob Van Dam who is also a former WWE World champion recently spoke to Chris Van Vliet where he looked back at his WWE World Championship match against John Cena from the ECW One Night Stand pay per view event of 2006 and revealed that he never expected the fans in the arena would be that much hostile towards John Cena. He said;
“I don’t think anybody could have known exactly how that crowd was gonna be first off, to put that out there. I didn’t. I knew for sure that was my home. I knew that they were with me. That was my building. But I couldn’t have predicted that they were gonna feel so much that way. They’re gonna be like ‘No! Fuck your T-shirt’ and throw it back. You see me laughing when you watch that.
“I thought that was funny and great. What are the chances that a fan that could have a John Cena shirt, because they’re all real fans at heart, will do that? Then boom, second guy does it again, third guy wipes his ass with it.
“It’s like, ‘Holy crap. This is great,’ But I had no idea it was gonna be like that. John knew that he was in for a rough night, He was gonna get shit on a lot. He knew that. He’s just super cool. I really think he was looking forward to the match. I think that he had fun with it. I know I did.”
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