Former WWE superstar Rob Van Dam recently conducted an interview with The Sun's Simon Rothstein. Here are some of the highlights from the interview of the former WWE and ECW Champion:

On when he knew WWE's version of ECW was doomed: "But almost right away they added "credibility" — as Vince put it — to the show, by adding rules. So then it became that Extreme Rules would be one match out of the night, like a lottery drawing. It watered down the rest of the card. I lost faith at a very precise moment, when I lost an argument with Vince over it."


On winning the WWE Championship: "Winning the world title meant a lot. It gave creditability to ECW. At least for the moment...so we thought!"


RVD on Vince McMahon's ECW vision: "We were faced with the fact that he would give ECW no credit for anything up until that point and wanted to create this new brand of wrestling that would be a global product and mainstream in every way, with Extreme Rules only as a stipulation every once in a while. Our hearts were ripped out of our chests and stomped on."


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