{"id":43137,"date":"2019-04-03T14:17:10","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T18:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=43137"},"modified":"2019-04-03T14:17:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T18:17:10","slug":"rob-van-dam-signs-new-deal-with-impact-wrestling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/04\/03\/rob-van-dam-signs-new-deal-with-impact-wrestling\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Van Dam Signs New Deal With IMPACT Wrestling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Months ago, former WWE and IMPACT World Champion <strong>Rob Van Dam<\/strong> was announced as returning to <strong>IMPACT Wrestling<\/strong>, as part of the main event for this WrestleMania weekend&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2019\/04\/01\/wrestlemania-week-preview-impact-wrestling-united-we-stand-4-4-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> IMPACT Supershow <em><strong>United We Stand<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. Van Dam was announced as pairing with former ECW partner <strong>Sabu<\/strong> against <strong>The Lucha Brothers<\/strong> (Pentagon Jr. &amp; Fenix) in a tag team hardcore match.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41377\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41377\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41377\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/03\/D0_bEP7WwAUgV8o-e1552877712334.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: IMPACT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/amp\/wwe\/news\/rob-van-dam-talks-return-impact-wrestling-vince-mcmahon\/483qhw4kz03g1bib15dvqycfz?fbclid=IwAR0XAg11XXTp0svpPMAjJt943JL8I04yfzXuWCbZjkC78Kpd4HA_7TpCY1s\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In an interview with Sporting News<\/a>, Rob Van Dam revealed that his at one point &#8220;one shot&#8221; return will now be a bit lengthier than that and he&#8217;s now making a return to IMPACT Wrestling going forward from this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block-element__p\"><strong><em>&#8220;It looks like you are going to be seeing my face around for the foreseeable future. We have an agreement to where I will be sticking after the show on Thursday. It does have a beginning and an end, but they can extend, so this is something to start us off. I had agreed to one match, and then we talked about and discussed doing their upcoming tapings after the show on Thursday and a couple of television tapings over the next few months. We looked at the schedule moving forward, and they asked if I was available. I told them I was.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"block-element__p\"><strong><em>We will see how it goes. It&#8217;s a pretty friendly schedule, which has always been important to me. I want to be home more and on the road less. That&#8217;s still something I&#8217;ve done since I left WWE in 2007. Impact with their schedule and the position they want me to fill for my career seems like a perfect situation. Hopefully it will be mutually beneficial, and we will see &#8220;The Whole F&#8217;N Show&#8221; back on television. Let&#8217;s see how all these new guys matchup to me. I&#8217;m not there to compete with the guys who have stolen all my moves (laughs). I&#8217;m pretty much there to be myself.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rob Van Dam last appeared with IMPACT back in 2013, when he lost his X-Division Championship to <strong>Kenny King<\/strong> in February of 2013 on IMPACT TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Months ago, former WWE and IMPACT World Champion Rob Van Dam was announced as returning to IMPACT Wrestling, as part of the main event for this WrestleMania weekend&#8217;s IMPACT Supershow United We Stand. Van Dam was announced as pairing with former ECW partner Sabu against The Lucha Brothers (Pentagon Jr. &amp; Fenix) in a tag [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":43139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,6],"tags":[1734],"class_list":["post-43137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-impact","category-north-america","tag-rob-van-dam"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}