Hall of Famer Rob Van Dam wants to manage this former NXT Champion.
A multi-time champion himself across WWE and several other promotions, RVD has expressed his interest in managing a former NXT champion. At 54 years old, Van Dam is actively wrestling, but recently also addressed the idea of mentoring a budding talent.
Speaking with B4 The Bell, RVD revealed his idea of managing former NXT Women’s North American Champion Kelani Jordan.
“I’m just going to throw this out there because it popped into my head, Kelani Jordan. I’m on board. We did a really cool little backstage vignette in November or December when I was at NXT for a second. We both did the splits across the chairs, facing each other. So that’s my answer, I’ll be her manager.”
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Jordan was the inaugural NXT Women’s North American Champion, winning the championship in a six-woman ladder match at Battleground 2024. She later dropped the title to Fallon Henley at Halloween Havoc 2024. The former champion had previously also noted how Van Dam’s work as a wrestler had inspired her.
When Will WWE Hall Of Famer Rob Van Dam Officially Retire?
Recently speaking with Chris Van Vliet, Rob Van Dam addressed the chances of his retirement. Ruling out the concept of hanging up his boots, the Hall of Famer shared:
“No I don’t [think I am], and I don’t think I will [retire]. That’s how I feel right now. I feel like even if I don’t take wrestling bookings anymore, I don’t think I’ll make a big deal out of retirement. Because when wrestlers retire and they end up coming back and wrestling anyway. ‘No, I want one more match.’ For me, that is completely eating up the credibility that I had in wrestling retirement matches.
I doubt that I’ll ever feel like, ‘No, I’m going to be different. I never want to wrestle right now. I’m done.’ I just see me is just going with the flow. And someday when you say, are you still wrestling? I might say, It’s been six years, and then I might have a match.
I’ve always said also I want to price myself out and not wear myself and my value down. A lot of my peers, they were worth so much in their prime and then they are not worth as much, can’t get booked as much, so they come down and compromise and that has a cycle effect where they are worth less. But I’m not gonna do that, I’d rather have less people afford me until I don’t wrestle that way instead of wrestling myself into a grave and my last match was $5.”
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