The 2021 WWE Hall of Fame is going to the extreme

Tribute to the Troops is the only one that I ever heard him say no to (and again like said above cant say I would’nt have done the same), every house show I ever went to RVD was there when guys like HBK and HHH weren’t always so if anything its the opposite. I mean the guy showed up to shows with his knee torn to pieces in mid ‘05, shows the guys love for the business.

I feel more potentially that guys like Triple H and HBK were threatened by his talent and popularity and therefore buried him during most of his run to protect their “spot” (you can tell in his shoot interviews that there’s animosity there). RVD was insanely over in 2001 to the point where he should have been world champ somewhere in 2002/2003. His run on Smackdown in 2004 was a joke, I remember thinking when he got drafted how few guys were over there to compete at the main event level thinking he would get an honest shot and then they go and make Bradshaw champion and RVD is taking losses to Rene Dupree and Kenzo Suzuki...

Sure he got busted with weed during his run in ‘06 but at that point all he did was shorten his WWE title reign by a potential 12 more days, because they were going to have Edge take it off him anyways at SNME instead of Raw so they could have the Edge/Cena feud they wanted. And with ECW being setup for failure before it even restarted I don’t think him getting busted with weed really threw the trajectory of his career off by much if at all.