5 Things You Didn't Know Were BANNED In TNA

5. Suggestive Skits On Twitch

In 2022, Rob Van Dam shook his head as he recalled controversial and suggestive skits that got TNA banned from the Twitch platform in early-2020 on Rene Dupree's podcast. According to RVD, segments involving he, Katie Forbes and a female friend were penned by TNA chiefs but left Twitch execs flabbergasted that they'd even be aired.

Whipped cream, sexually suggestive content and the rest of it had no place on the platform, and Twitch wanted to let TNA know all about it. So, they temporarily banned the promotion from putting content on the servers. Rob pointed out that this put a dent in the viewership, because a fair number of people consumed TNA content via Twitch at the time.

Ouch.

Van Dam told Dupree that the whole thing was "ridiculous" from the beginning. He raised an eyebrow when he saw some of the things written in the scripts,  but his approach was very much just to say "yeah, whatever" back then. So, he, Forbes and pals went along with everything TNA asked them to do. It was too explicit for Twitch, and the admins weren't exactly chuffed by what they were seeing.

Eventually, Twitch did lift the ban, but TNA had to be mindful of any other sexual scenes they fancied producing. The line, 'Let me see that Rob Van D***' may live in the minds of pro wrestling fans forever. It certainly kept a Twitch executive awake that night!

RVD's skit changed the rules on what was appropriate for company programming, including on third party platforms.