Thanks to John Permaul for sending along the following:
Rob Van Damn on Off the Record
TSN 6:00pm ET
Air date Friday, June 03, 2005
Show starts with Landsberg saying that they are going to start with Lonie
Gliberman on a one-on-one, being that the Glibermans just purchased the CFL
Franchise Ottawa Renegades (after owning the Ottawa Roughriders in the 90s and
then causing their downfall to eventually folding (see Vince Russo/WCW )).
Landsberg says they have a great panel including Rob Van Damn. RVD says that
Landsberg is right as his favorite’s wrestler Rob Van Damn, Mr. Monday Night,
Mr. Thursday Night is here on OTR. Landsberg fires back asking RVD if he saw him
role his eyes, and RVD responds saying well if you are unable to do rolling
thunder, then at least you better be able to role your eyes (was rather funny).
Opening promo plays.
One-on-One with Michael Landsberg and Gliberman for the first 5 minutes, which
leads to a commercial where Landsberg says when they return with the panel, they
will talk about Roy Shivers, GM of the Saskatchewan Roughriders who said they
were going to take the head off of the Calgary QB (who last season was with the
Riders), as well as they show some Longest Yard footage.
Return at 6:07 from commercial break, with footage of Van Damn at the Invasion
PPV against Jeff Hardy doing spots in the crowd, as well as RVD doing a 5 Star
Frog Splash on Christian off the top of a ladder on Raw. RVD is sporting
sunglasses, and Landsberg makes mention that RVD is coming back from knee
injury, RVD says he should be back in August. Landsberg says in WWE, if you say
you want to break someone’s neck it is boring, but in CFL it is more
interesting. They go over the recap of the CFL comments, RVD doesn’t say much to
start with the others on the panel weighing it a lot. RVD comes in by doing a
Hogan impersonation saying he is going to break someone’s neck (As they said
that if anything, the comments were entertaining). RVD said the point is that
the Riders GM is just saying they are going to kick Calgary’s ass and that is
it, there wasn’t much substance to the comment. Landsberg says he loves talking
CFL with 4 Americans, and RVD says that he grew up in Michigan, so he is
borderline Canadian. In regards to the Owens-Philly situation, and again RVD is
rather quite while the others on the panel voice opinions, not saying anything
for at least 4 of 5 minutes. Landsberg asks RVD went to Vince and asked for a
raise, what would Vince say? RVD says everyone makes their own individual deals
and he specifically feels he may not be getting a fair share of the pie, as he
puts lots of asses in the seats, but doesn’t necessarily get paid like other top
tier performers. With that, at 6:15 they go to break with Landsberg saying they
will talk about Steroids in the NHL and ideas for the Longest Yard. Today’s
Quirky Fact: December 16th is a good day for World Wrestling Entertainment. Rob
Van Damn, Trish Stratus and Stone Cold Steve Austin were all born that day.
Come out of break at 6:17 with Britney Spears “Slave for you” video, with
Landsberg saying Britney is back in the news because sex is good. Landsberg says
that has nothing to do with the show, but now he has everyone’s attention. He
says the NHL has no policy or testing for steroid. He says congress is talking
about a 2 year penalty. RVD says that sounds stiff, because they enter in to
contracts with the guys. RVD says it is not the governments business. He says he
sport should have its own rules, Landsberg says Congresses point is that they
should have tried to rule themselves but they all messed up, as if a 15 year old
boy sees McGuire doing steroids, the 15 year old will think they have to do it.
RVD says nothing while panel talks. Landsberg said should congress back off and
let leagues try to govern themselves. Again RVD doesn’t say anything while the
panel talks about this, and then Landsberg moves off the topic and sends the
show to break at 6:23. Fan E-mail Question for Rob Van Damn, “You are a massive
comic book guy, what is your favorites comic growing up and who wins superman or
batman?” RVD says he was a big Ghostrider fan as a kid, and common, Superman
would kick Batman’s ass.
Return at 6:26, with Landsberg saying they have John Cena on Monday One-on-One
(as well as Ucheana and Joyce from Amazing Race on Tuesday). RVD is there to
promote the ECW One Night Stand. RVD says Vince owns everything now but one
night only, ECW will splinter off and have its own show to show everyone how its
really done. Landsberg promotes the fact that they have taped a one-on-one with
Van Damn which will air at a later date. Landsberg talks about Longest Yard,
saying they should have used Jamal Lewis, Dexter Manly and the 49ers PR guy who
just got fired the other day in San Francisco for that controversial film they
made for the players. Landsberg talks to Gliberman a little more with the panel
there. As Landsberg sends the show off the air, he mentions Cena will be there
on Monday. As they role the credits, they show a highlight reel of RVDs
wrestling footage (all ECW except for 5 Star on Christian which they showed at
the beginning)., with the Van Terminator on Jerry Lynn (with help from
Gertner), the 5 Star on Christian again, Van Damn and the Terminator on Lynn
again into a Garbage Can, and the RVD Promo where he had the split legs and
lifted up the weights (of course, you could see Fonzy in the back) (if I didn’t
know better, with all the ECW footage there, it may be the RVD package they
should put on RAW to promote the PPV). End 6:30
RVDs major issue here was that even though he came off well, he didn’t want to
really join the panel and just jump in. Otherwise, as always RVD looked good and
didn’t appear hurt or injured. For what he said, it was insightful but it really
wasn’t a lot…
