10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About Rob Van Dam

7. He Did The Van Terminator In ECW Before Shane McMahon In WWE

Van Terminator RVD was always known as one of the best high fliers in wrestling. It's what made him so popular in ECW in the late 1990s and in his WWE run as well. He did moves that nobody else did. In 2000 in ECW he debuted a new move that I can remember ECW was hyping up on their website at the time. We didn't know what it was. We just knew it was going to be unlike anything we had ever seen before. It's hard to come up with new moves in wrestling, but when RVD did his Van Terminator for the first time it really made everybody say "wow" or "holy s**t" as soon as we saw it. The move is best described as a corner to corner dropkick where he jumps off one turnbuckle all the way across the ring to dropkick an object (usually a chair) in to the face of his opponent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R687m5Dtcyw What a lot of WWE fans probably think is that it was a Shane McMahon move because Shane was the first one to do it in a WWE ring about a year after RVD first did it. Shane did it most famously at WrestleMania 17 against his father Vince. RVD signed with WWE a few months after that, so he wasn't there yet. When Shane did it they called it the "Coast to Coast" and didn't acknowledge that RVD was the one that made the move famous elsewhere. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITVOH3-r07c When RVD went to WWE in 2001, he did the Van Terminator to the likes of Kane, Lance Storm and even Paul Heyman. With all due respect to Shane McMahon, RVD did it better.
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