Dans une entrevue pour FanHouse.com, Rob Van Dam a exprimé son admiration pour Paul Heyman, que la TNA aimerait bien voir joindre ses rang.

Il affirme que c'est un grand connaisseur des besoins du public et un avant-gardiste. Et le seul, dans le monde de la lutte, qui a vraiment compris sa personnalité.

RVD ne sait cependant pas si Heyman est vraiment intéressé à tenter l'aventure de la TNA.

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“Paul and I do stay in touch, we’re friends,” Van Dam said. “Of course, I would be thrilled to have him there and I think that he really, I know that he really has a way of staying on the pulse of people and staying really connected in what they want. He’s a little bit ahead of them.

“He knows what the people want next week, what they’re going to be listening to next, what kind of music is going to be coming around. That’s something that is really important and he would make it cool. His name does come up a lot by fans or some of the other wrestlers or by people that curious, wondering if he is going to come in. To the best of my knowledge, no. I don’t know if he is. That would be nice but I have no reason that he is…

“Obviously, one thing that RVD has is I’m one of a kind. I’m an original – I stand out. But promoters don’t know that. They try to put me in a formula for everyone else. In the 20 years of my career, there’s only been one promoter that understood to just let me go out there and do my thing and that was Paul. In fact, he taught it to me.”