Rob Van Dam – ‘Jack Perry Really Wanted To Face Me’

Jack Perry defeated Rob Van Dam to retain the FTW Championship on last week’s edition of AEW Dynamite.

Speaking recently with Denise Salcedo, WWE Hall of Famer Rob Van Dam reflected on his FTW Rules Match with Perry.

According to RVD, the match was in the making for quite some time.

You can check out some highlights from the interview below:

On his AEW match being planned for a while: “They’ve had this planned for quite a while actually, it was towards the beginning of the year when I started getting phone calls seeing if I was interested and even available, which it’s pretty remarkable that so many months later, the first dates that were mentioned were the exact same dates that it fell upon so that tells me a lot about how far ahead these guys think. Just like with anything, it’s not real until it happens and that’s how I took it.”

On how much Jack Perry wanted to face him: “What was really cool about Jack Perry is that he really wanted this match. He was a real fan, maybe of the whole hardcore, extreme style or whatever so it was a really organic fit. If it was just like thrown together, which a lot of matches are, every match is a compromise of what two completely different people bring together, you make the stew, you both got your own ingredients. Sometimes it’s good, when you’re RVD, it’s always good. With Jack being extra excited about this particular match, that just made it that much better.”

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