by Dominic DeAngelo

On the latest episode of “1 Of A Kind With RVD,” Van Dam covers his
storied rivalry with Jerry Lynn, but did get asked about an opponent he
never got to face in the ring, Bret Hart.

“I love Bret, and in my opinion, he’s definitely one of the very, very, very best, if not the best, arguably, maybe the best that I’ve seen….

“I also know that he prides himself for never hurting anybody in the business. I don’t really have that same claim … I got trained very snug
and then went to Japan and got trained to be even snugger, you know?”

To Mr. Monday Night’s point, Van Dam was trained by another “one of a kind” talent in the original Sheik, who was notorious for being snug in
the ring. Early in his career, RVD ended up working with the legendary
Giant Baba under All Japan Pro-Wrestling who played host to many snug
American wrestlers, including names like Gary Albright and Dr. Death
Steve Williams.

With admiration RVD has for Bret, he knows he’d be super considerate of
his fellow WWE Hall Of Famer if that hypothetical dream match ever
happened.

“A lot of people say that they don’t find me excessive at all during our matches and I would be on my very best behavior with The Hitman, you know
what I mean? Out of respect, but I just don’t know that, you know, he wouldn’t be like, ‘wow!'”

read more at: https://itrwrestling.com/news/rob-van-dam-on-how-he-would-have-worked- with-bret-hart-in-the-ring/

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