Kevin Eck of Ring Posts has a brand new, two part interview with Rob Van Dam. We may give RVD a good ribbing from time to time, but there’s no debating he’s a true wrestling icon. This interview gives great insight into his work as a wrestler, the resulting burnout, and where he plans to go from here.

Just a few highlights:

RVD on Triple H:

he just has that smugness about him where you know when he’s walking away from you that he’s rolling his eyes or something. There’s something about that kind of guy that vibrates at such a different speed than me, that I don’t enjoy being around someone like that.

RVD on watching wrestling shows:

It’s been just business for me for a long time. The passion got burned out a long time ago. Keeping up with it, watching it on TV would be like you watching other people work in a cubicle.

On WWE drug testing:

I look at it like security at the airport. We’re not all going to blow up the airplanes, but because there’s a few bad apples, we all have to bend over and get the anal probe and have all of our private property searched.

Check out part 1 and part 2 of Kevin Eck’s interview with Rob Van Dam at the Ring Posts blog.