Rob Van Dam Recalls WWE Match Where His ACL 'Snapped'

Despite wrestling a high-impact style for over thirty years, WWE Hall of Famer Rob Van Dam has only had to undergo one major surgery during his storied career. 

In early 2005 the Whole F'N Show went under the knife to repair a torn ACL, which would keep him out of action for a full year. Then one half of the WWE Tag Team Champions, Van Dam's knee had been bothering him for several years when, one night, things finally came to a head. 

Discussing the match where his ACL 'snapped' during a recent edition of his 1 Of A Kind With RVD podcast, the 52-year-old said: 

"One night it finally snapped, my ACL in a match. Me and Rey [Mysterio] were wrestling the Basham Brothers. They went to backdrop me and I just rolled off his back, and landed on my feet, BAM! My ACL, it snapped, and then I couldn't straighten my leg out or bend it. It was just stuck in a position slightly bent. And I was like 'F**k'. And I tagged out, rolled out, kept walking back and forth, back and forth alongside the ring down there on the floor, trying to walk it off, and it was not working. I was like 'F**k'. And I kept looking over at Terry Taylor, he was the agent, I saw him watching and I was like 'F**k! I don't know what happened. It's not getting better'. I'm walking and walking and walking, it wouldn't straighten out or bend. It was f****d. So then I had to get surgery, which was my only surgery that I had in my career." 

Van Dam has recently been wrestling for AEW and is hoping to continue his run there by teaming with HOOK as 'Smoke and Choke'. 

H/T Wrestling Inc.