10 Wrestlers That Became Complete Party Animals

1. Rob Van Dam

Rob Van Dam
Impact

Rob Van Dam's late-2010s reinvention was one few could have seen coming.

'Mr Monday Night' always had a penchant for particular paraphernalia not least when the clock struck 4:20, but RVD had always been as much about the relaxing and medicinal purposes of his favourite pass time as developing extracurricular activities as part of his persona.

This all changed in 2019 when the former ECW and WWE legend returned to another former stomping ground. Impact Wrestling had been reasonably good to RVD in prior runs, but this stint saw his character turn heel on old ECW friend Rhino and embrace another key aspect of his real life - his wife and her girlfriend.

The "throuple" (Van Dam, wrestler Katie Forbes and their model partner Jennifer Barlow) had made their personal lives professional in a series of attention-grabbing images and social media uploads, but nothing caused as big a stir as the party the three held to drum up yet more interest.

It wasn't without consequence - an implied threesome skit was enough to convince Twitch to boot Impact off the platform, and recent events have seen everything to do with the angle largely parked until all Impact operations resume as normal.

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