Rob Van Dam says he’s having a blast teaming with HOOK.
Over the last couple of months, HOOK and Rob Van Dam have teamed together on several occasions and have yet to lose as a pairing.
The duo do not have a tag team name right now, but that has not stopped fans from coming up with interesting names.
They most recently teamed in Philadelphia, and have been undefeated as a tag team.
Speaking on his 1 Of A Kind podcast, Rob Van Dam discussed his latest match in AEW as well as teaming with HOOK.
“Thanks for watching me on AEW. I had a blast. I felt good, man. Felt good out there in the ring all the way through it, felt good afterwards. Then afterwards, I walked through and bam, there’s Ric Flair. I’m like, ‘What? What are you doing here, dude?’ I thought it was a really good show. Good energy. Always awesome to be in Philly. Every time I get in the ring, I’m feeling better and better. So that’s how it is. If you do it regularly, myself anyway, if I’m doing something regularly, then it’s like working on the craft, looking at it, to tweak, to do improvements, to show something I didn’t show last time, whatever. But when they’re all one-offs, there’s really not that much to put into it because it’s like, ‘Hey, people want to see you do the shit that they used to see you do.’ So show them, give them the Rolling Thunder, give them a Frog Splash. But it’s been cool to continuously be part of this momentum, and it looks like me and HOOK are kind of engaged now [laughs]. We could have a reason to see some more of RVD besides being such a damn good wrestler. So now it looks like I got a position of mentoring HOOK, and I’m enjoying that too. It’s really cool. I like him, and it’s really cool. It’s cool how the crowd takes to it because of Taz and me going way back,”
“Yeah, I get along with him a lot better than I used to get along with his dad [laughs]. Took me 20 years to come along to being able to meet Taz on the same page and be able to talk. But no, HOOK is really cool and obviously already looked up to RVD. So that goes a long way when it comes to building a relationship. All the guys there are really respectful and cool, and everyone always says that. Fans too. ‘I grew up watching you.’ I know. Everybody did [laughs],”
“Not really. Maybe a little bit in the move set. But I kind of forget that he came from Taz’s scrotum bag when I’m out there. He’s his own person, just like any of the wrestlers. Big personality, and I don’t mean he’s an extrovert, by any means. Quite the opposite. But what I mean is that he stands on his own, so when I’m teaming with him, I kind of forget about that. I’m not thinking about his dad. I’m just thinking about, ‘Boom, there’s HOOK my partner out there.’ He’s in trouble, tag me in. I’m fresh. Then afterwards, we’ll celebrate, and then dad comes to mind again a little bit,”
Rob Van Dam
It is unknown when Rob will make his return to All Elite Wrestling as of this writing.
HOOK is scheduled to team with Orange Cassidy this week to take on Jon Moxley and Wheeler Yuta on AEW Dynamite.
H/T to Fightful for transcription
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