How big of a draw is RVD?

**Fox** · 04-22-2012, 06:48 PM

RVD was one of the hottest draws in the Attitude Era. He grew this reputation while in ECW for being this acrobatic, quick, innovative, MUST-SEE guy who had held this championship for over a year and was having incredible matches with all kinds of opponents. Most of that can be directly attributed to Paul Heyman's creativity and booking of RVD as the "Whole fucking show." It was so much hype and people bought it.

He brought that same attitude to the WWF during the InVasion and was arguably more over than Steve Austin and Kurt Angle at one point. If WWE had capitalized back then, he could've been escalated into that upper tier that very few enter in their careers. But it never happened, and I feel like RVD just kind of sat back and "did his thing" and collected the paychecks for awhile. He vented his frustrations with the WWE creative staff at the first One Night Stand, and I think that lit a fire under him to get better, which he did. But after the WWE Championship/pot bust debacle, he just receded back to doing his same old schtick, night in and night out.

At this point, he's about as big of a draw as Dolph Ziggler.

04-22-2012, 06:48 PM	#30
Fox "Ask him!" Posts: 10,075	RVD was one of the hottest draws in the Attitude Era. He grew this reputation while in ECW for being this acrobatic, quick, innovative, MUST-SEE guy who had held this championship for over a year and was having incredible matches with all kinds of opponents. Most of that can be directly attributed to Paul Heyman's creativity and booking of RVD as the "Whole fucking show." It was so much hype and people bought it. He brought that same attitude to the WWF during the InVasion and was arguably more over than Steve Austin and Kurt Angle at one point. If WWE had capitalized back then, he could've been escalated into that upper tier that very few enter in their careers. But it never happened, and I feel like RVD just kind of sat back and "did his thing" and collected the paychecks for awhile. He vented his frustrations with the WWE creative staff at the first One Night Stand, and I think that lit a fire under him to get better, which he did. But after the WWE Championship/pot bust debacle, he just receded back to doing his same old schtick, night in and night out. At this point, he's about as big of a draw as Dolph Ziggler.