Busted Open satellite radio show with Rob Van Dam
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Rob Van Dam appeared on the "Busted Open" radio show on Tuesday to promote his appearance at Wrestle Reunion. The following are the highlights of the interview.

-Van Dam on being selective with his dates: "I have a lot of value in the industry of wrestling. Your own personal value can only be estimated by you and what it's worth to you. My time at home or my time doing what I want to do is worth so much to me that only I can truly set the price now that my time is mine on what that is. What my time is worth to me is not usually what it's going to be what it's worth to some wrestling promoter who is running a show at the Louisville Fairgrounds. He doesn't get a call back because I'm not out there on the prostitution circuit. I don't have a fee to throw at him because he's not going to be able to afford me anyway. I wrestle and have for the last five or six years because it's a business. I quit being a fan in probably 2001."

-Van Dam on being a legend: "When people say I'm a legend, I'm comfortable with that. If I'm a legend to you, I get that. You've seen me beat the best, you've seen me hang in there with the best. Now if I go hang in there with these young guys that really aren't eve proven, I'm not sure you're going to get that same perspective and the same satisfaction out of RVD that you thought you would... You've seen Rob Van Dam beat Big Show, The Rock, Steve Austin, and now you want to see me go over Christopher Daniels and that's really what you want to see? That's confusing to me.

-Van Dam on leaving WWE when his contract expired: "When I chose not to re-sign with WWE, one of the wrestlers I was talking to... He said, 'Alright, you'll have like a good six month window when you're off TV where you'll still be able to charge top price and get a lot of money.' I looked at him like this poor son of a bitch has like no idea. He does business so much different than I. I knew I wasn't going to do the indys... It just made me realize how much different I am than the other wrestlers.

"When I left, the last day that I was in WWE, that match I had with Randy Orton, Chris Benoit in the dressing room said, 'Hey, I just want you to know you have a lot of respect from us for walking away.' I said I wasn't saying I'd never be back. He said, 'No, no, no, f--- that. You know when to walk away. The rest of us don't know when to do it.' Chavo Guerrero was like, 'What are you going to do? How can you just walk away? I couldn't walk away from two weeks. How are you going to do it? So here we are two-and-a-half years later, I'm still in prime condition. The fans are still chanting for me at the arenas I'm not at."

-Van Dam on the Monday night battle between WWE and TNA: "That was the first wrestling that I watched in the longest time, and it's also the last wrestling I watched... I flipped back and forth with skepticism. There was optimism. There was hope. The whole thing with (Hulk) Hogan and the change... It was a nice moment. I liked seeing Bret (Hart). I was comparing and about 45 minutes into it I felt like I was just watching wrestling and I lost interest."

-Van Dam on whether he'd work for WWE again. "If the conditions were right, then the conditions would be right. I can tell you for sure that I have no interest in returning to a full-time schedule like I did before. That's not going to happen."

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