Rob Van Dam ( RVD ) Bio

Rob Van Dam ( RVD ) Bio

Name                       :                    Robert Alex Szatkowski

Ring Name              :                    Rob Van Dam ( RVD )

Birth Date               :                    18 Dec 1970

Birth Place              :                    Michigan, USA    Mini Bio

Robert Alex "Victimize" Szatkowski (conceived December 18, 1970), better known by his ring name Rob Van Dam (often condensed to RVD), is an American expert wrestler and intermittent performing artist.

He is best known for his appearances with Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) in the late 1990s, with the World Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Entertainment (WWF/E) in the ahead of schedule to mid-2000s, and afterward with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) in the mid 2010s, in which Van Dam has won 21 complete titles (counting being a three-time best on the planet) and is the main wrestler in history to have held the WWE Championship, the ECW World Heavyweight Championship, and the TNA World Heavyweight Championship (counting holding the WWE and ECW World titles at the same time inside WWE). Van Dam is additionally the 2006 Money in the Bank victor, a WWE Triple Crown Champion, and a WWE Grand Slam Champion. Van Dam picked up his standard fame by 1998 when he won the ECW World Television Championship, which he held for a record 700 days. Between ECW, WWF/WWE, and TNA, Van Dam featured real pay-per-view occasions in three decades between the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s, shutting the ECW's chief yearly occasion November to Remember 1998. Van Dam is likewise a five time world label group champion (two ECW, two WWE World Tag Team, and one WWE Tag Team). He is a six-time WWE Intercontinental Champion and was the last holder of the WWE Hardcore Championship and the last WWE European Champion, bringing together both titles with his Intercontinental Championship. He is likewise a previous TNA X Division Champion.

In 2002, Van Dam was positioned the main wrestler on the planet by Pro Wrestling Illustrated. He was voted "Most Popular Wrestler" by perusers of the magazine in 2001 and again in 2002. WWE has named him the best star in ECW history.

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Szatkowski experienced childhood in Battle Creek, Michigan and moved on from Pennfield Senior High School. Szatkowski showed up on WWF TV in 1987 in a play with "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase. At the time, DiBiase was selecting plants from the gathering of people and offering to pay them to perform debasing acts and offered the 16-year-old Szatkowski $100 to enter the ring and kiss his foot, which he did. This early appearance was later included as a reward highlight on WWE's Before They Were Superstars DVD and on WWE's Rob Van Dam: One of a Kind DVD. He was additionally in participation at WrestleMania III as expressed on The Hulk Hogan: The Ultimate Anthology DVD.

World Television Champion

Van Dam remained the World Television Champion for whatever is left of 1998, and he began 1999 by making fruitful title protections against any semblance of Spike Dudley, Lance Storm at Guilty as Charged, Jerry Lynn at Crossing the Line, Balls Mahoney at Anarchy Rulz, and 2 Cold Scorpio at CyberSlam.

Van Dam and Sabu were booked to make a title safeguard on April 17, yet Sabu was suspended by ECW before the match occurred. Instead, Van Dam confronted D-Von Dudley in a singles match and as an aftereffect of losing the match, Van Dam additionally lost the Tag Team Title to the Dudleyz. After losing the Tag Team titles, Van Dam concentrated on shielding the Television title. He went into a competition with Jerry Lynn against whom he protected the Television title at Hardcore Heaven in a "no time limit" match. Van Dam held the title, and the match was considered so great that Paul Heyman publicized it on ECW's introduction on TNN set up of a shoot promo about TNN that he was arranging, however was not permitted to air. Van Dam kept on guarding the ECW World Television Championship for the rest of the year.

Van Dam started a fight with Rhino in the start of 2000. RVD effectively guarded the ECW World Television Championship against Rhino on January 7. RVD got a triumph amid a title protection against Sabu at Guilty as Charged which was Sabu's last match in the promotion. Van Dam was booked to perform in a "champion versus champion" pay-per-view headliner against ECW World Heavyweight Champion Mike Awesome. This match conceivably could have been ECW's most lucrative pay-per-view headliner, and Heyman was relying upon it to bring a deluge of gravely required funds, however the match never happened in light of the fact that Van Dam endured a broken lower leg amid a fruitful title barrier against Rhino on January 29. The damage additionally constrained Van Dam to clear the ECW World Television Championship.

He came back to ECW at Hardcore Heaven and confronted long-term rival Jerry Lynn. Van Dam was bolstered by his genuine companion Scotty Anton who in the long run turned on him when Van Dam was going to play out a Five-Star Frog Splash on Lynn. Anton pushed him from the top rope, which helped Lynn win the match. Van Dam quarreled with Anton and rendered his retribution at Heat Wave by crushing Anton after a Van Terminator. Van Dam then endeavored to correct requital on Rhino for compelling his harm. He got numerous chances to win the ECW World Television Championship over from Rhino, however Rhino's partners typically assaulted Van Dam, bringing about preclusions and permitting Rhino to hold the title. At Anarchy Rulz, Van Dam confronted Rhino for the ECW World Television Championship yet was screwed when a heel arbitrator made the most of a quick amid a pinfall endeavor made by Rhino.

Van Dam was not promoted and did not appear for countless occasions because of the vast whole of cash owed to him. He showed up at ECW's last pay-per-view occasion Guilty as Charged, where he vanquished Jerry Lynn. This was Van Dam's last appearance in ECW, as ECW just held two more shows after the compensation per-view.

World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment

The Invasion

A while after the conclusion of ECW, Van Dam was marked to a fleeting contract by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). Alongside individual ECW graduate Tommy Dreamer, Van Dam came back to WWF TV on the July 9, 2001 scene of Raw in Atlanta, Georgia as a heel, and assaulting WWF wrestlers Kane and Chris Jericho. Later that night, five wrestlers from WWF and five wrestlers from WCW went up against ten ECW wrestlers, including Van Dam. The match never occurred as rather the WCW wrestlers adjusted themselves to the ECW wrestlers.

Notwithstanding being a heel, Van Dam was prevalent with the WWF fans, who knew about his notoriety in ECW. Subsequent to overcoming Jeff Hardy for the WWF Hardcore Championship at Invasion,. Van Dam lost the Hardcore title to Hardy on the August 13 scene of Raw, however recaptured it at SummerSlam. Amid this time Van Dam had vanquished wrestlers, for example, Kane, The Undertaker, Kurt Angle, Chris Jericho, The Rock and even the Alliance pioneer Stone Cold Steve Austin in singles and label group matches. Van Dam got to be a standout amongst the most mainstream individuals from the Alliance who confronted The Rock for the WCW Championship on numerous events, and even tested Alliance pioneer Stone Cold Steve Austin for the WWF Championship including a triple risk match at No Mercy likewise including Kurt Angle, however did not win. At Survivor Series on November 18, Van Dam and four other Alliance individuals confronted five WWF wrestlers in a Winner Take All match. Group WWF won, and the individuals from the Alliance were let go; be that as it may, as he held the Hardcore Championship, Van Dam could hold his job.

Intercontinental Champion

Van Dam turned into a face, however lost the Hardcore Championship to The Undertaker at Vengeance. He then went into a competition with William Regal over Regal's Intercontinental title. On the February 25 scene of Raw, Van Dam crushed Lance Storm and Big Show in a triple risk match to end up the #1 contender to the Intercontinental Championship. At WrestleMania X8, RVD confronted Regal for the Intercontinental Championship and won the match after he hit Regal with a Five-Star Frog Splash.

At the point when the WWF was partitioned into two "brands", Raw and SmackDown! in 2002, Van Dam was drafted to the Raw brand as the fourth pick. After he safeguarded his title effectively against Booker T, Eddie Guerrero came back to the WWF and assaulted Van Dam. He began a quarrel with Eddie Guerrero over the Intercontinental title. At Backlash, Van Dam lost the Intercontinental Title to Guerrero. At Insurrextion, Van Dam and Guerrero had a rematch for the Intercontinental Championship. Guerrero was precluded subsequent to hitting the arbitrator with the Intercontinental Championship; thus, Van Dam won the match yet not the title on the grounds that a title can't change hands by disqualification. At Judgment Day, Van Dam neglected to win the Intercontinental Title in another rematch. The next night he vanquished The Undertaker for the Undisputed Championship however power figure Ric Flair restarted the match, which Van Dam then lost nullifying the title win. On the May 27 scene of Raw, Van Dam crushed Eddie Guerrero in a stepping stool match for the Intercontinental Championship.

Subsequent to confronting each other in the last round of the King of the Ring competition, Van Dam and Brock Lesnar started fighting with each other. Van Dam protected his Intercontinental Championship against Lesnar twice and held his title both times by disqualification. On July 22, 2002, Van Dam brought together the WWE European Championship into the WWE Intercontinental Championship after he crushed European Champion Jeff Hardy in a title unification stepping stool match. Thus, the European title was deserted. On the July 29 scene of Raw, Van Dam lost the Intercontinental Championship to Chris Benoit.

At SummerSlam, Van Dam won his third WWE Intercontinental Championship by overcoming Benoit in a rematch for the title. As Benoit conveyed the title to SmackDown when he exchanged brands not long after winning it, RVD took the Intercontinental Title back to Raw. On the August 26 scene of Raw, Van Dam additionally bound together the WWE Hardcore Championship into the WWE Intercontinental Championship by crushing Hardcore Champion Tommy Dreamer in an in-your-face title unification match. Accordingly, the WWE Hardcore Championship was abandoned. On the September 9 scene of Raw, Van Dam turned into the main contender to the World Heavyweight Championship by vanquishing Chris Jericho, Jeff Hardy, and Big Show in a deadly four-manner disposal match.

Van Dam began quarreling with the World Heavyweight Champion Triple H. On the September 16 scene of Raw, Van Dam lost the Intercontinental Championship to Chris Jericho after obstruction by Triple H. At Unforgiven, Van Dam confronted Triple H for the World Heavyweight Championship. Because of Ric Flair's impedance, Van Dam lost the match. At No Mercy, Van Dam got his reprisal on Flair by crushing him. At Survivor Series, Van Dam took an interest in the first-since forever Elimination Chamber match for Triple H's World Heavyweight Championship, yet it was won by Shawn Michaels. Amid the match, Van Dam played out a Five-Star Frog Splash off of one of the cases/chambers onto Triple H coincidentally arriving with his knee onto Triple H's throat.

Joining and quarreling with Kane

Van Dam showed up on the World Heavyweight Championship scene furthermore framed a label group with Kane in October 2002. Van Dam vanquished Jericho and Booker T in a Triple Threat match to wind up the main contender for the World Heavyweight Championship. On the November 25 scene of Raw, Van Dam confronted Michaels for the World Heavyweight Championship. Michaels was precluded after Triple H hit RVD with a Pedigree. On the December 2 scene of Raw, Van Dam lost to Triple H in a #1 contender's match with World Heavyweight Champion Shawn Michaels going about as the exceptional visitor referee.

In 2003, Rob Van Dam kept on collaborating with Kane. RVD took an interest in the Royal Rumble, and was one of the last five members before being deceived and killed by his label group accomplice Kane. The contemptible Lance Storm and William Regal at No Way Out for the World Tag Team Championship yet neglected to win the title when Kane erroneously chokeslammed RVD. On the March 31 scene of Raw, Van Dam and Kane vanquished World Tag Team Champions Lance Storm and Chief Morley and The Dudley Boyz in a 3-way end label group match to win the World Tag Team Championship. At Backlash, Van Dam and Kane held the titles against The Dudley Boyz with Morley as the extraordinary visitor referee. At Insurrextion, Van Dam and Kane protected the World Tag Team title effectively against La Résistance, before losing the title to La Résistance at Bad Blood.

After Kane was compelled to take his veil off when he lost to Triple H, he turned heel, and the group with RVD broke up. The two then began quarreling with each other. On the August 18 scene of Raw, Van Dam confronted the Intercontinental Champion Christian for the title, yet Kane meddled in the match and thumped Van Dam out in the wake of hitting him with a seat. Kane then took Van Dam to the backstage where he was limited and was going to be determined to flame. Kane altered his opinion at last, be that as it may, and said that he wasn't going to do what "they" want. Their contention prompted a No Holds Barred match at SummerSlam, which Kane won. On the September 8 scene of Raw, the competition finished when Kane crushed Van Dam in a steel confine match. Kane tossed RVD through the steel by error, however Eric Bischoff turned out and restarted the match, saying RVD didn't escape through the entryway or move out and requested the refs to put Rob Van Dam's body back inside the enclosure where Kane in the end hit a chokeslam from the side of the pen to get the victory.

Title rules

In September 2003, Van Dam began fighting with both Christian and Chris Jericho over Christian's Intercontinental Championship. On the September 15 scene of Raw, Van Dam confronted Jericho in a main contender's match for the title. The match finished in a twofold preclusion when Intercontinental Champion Christian meddled and hit both men with the title belt. At Unforgiven in a triple risk match between Jericho, Christian, and Van Dam, Christian held his title. Van Dam, be that as it may, crushed Christian in a stepping stool match on the September 29 scene of Raw to win the Intercontinental Championship for a fourth time. Van Dam went into a contention with Chris Jericho in October 2003, and the crafty each other in a few label group matches. On the October 27 scene of Raw, Van Dam lost the Intercontinental title to Jericho. Van Dam achieved the ropes when the challenger had him in the Walls of Jericho, yet Eric Bischoff diverted the official while Jericho dragged the champion again into the center of the ring. Van Dam submitted and Jericho turned into the new champion. Austin turned out and instantly requested Jericho to face Van Dam in a rematch inside the Steel Cage for the title. Van Dam won the rematch and his fifth Intercontinental Championship.

At Survivor Series, Van Dam was stuck by Randy Orton amid the customary end match. accordingly, Orton and Van Dam began quarreling with each other over Van Dam's Intercontinental title. Van Dam lost the Intercontinental Championship to Orton at Armageddon after impedance from Ric Flair. Van Dam went ahead to fight with both Orton and Evolution. On the January 12, 2004 scene of Raw, Van Dam confronted Orton in a rematch for the Intercontinental Championship however lost the match.

Van Dam framed a label group with Booker T. The two joined interestingly on the January 19 scene of Raw when they crushed Christian and Matt Hardy to fit the bill for a fight imperial where the victor of the Battle Royal would get the #30 spot in the 2004 Royal Rumble match. On the February 16 scene of Raw, Booker T and Van Dam vanquished Evolution individuals Ric Flair and Batista to win the World Tag Team Championship. At WrestleMania XX, Booker and Van Dam shielded the World Tag Team Championship in a deadly four-manner disposal label group match against the Dudley Boyz, La Résistance, and the group of Mark Jindrak and Garrison Cade. On the March 22 scene of Raw, Booker T and Van Dam lost the World Tag Team Championship back to Evolution.

On March 22, Van Dam was drafted from Raw to SmackDown!. He made his SmackDown! debut on March 25 vanquishing Charlie Haas. Van Dam and Rey Mysterio started a fight with the Dudley Boyz, vanquishing them at Judgment Day. In June, Van Dam left the label group division and started an interest for the United States Championship. At The Great American Bash, John Cena shielded the title against Van Dam, Booker T, and René Duprée in a Fatal Four-Way coordinate and held his championship. On the July 1 scene of SmackDown!, Van Dam and Duprée lost to Booker in a main contender's Triple Threat match. Four weeks after the fact, Van Dam took an interest in a 8-way disposal match for the empty United States Championship, and was the last man to be dispensed with by possible victor Booker.

Van Dam started collaborating with Mysterio again in the late spring and quarreled with René Duprée and Kenzo Suzuki. At No Mercy, Van Dam and Mysterio neglected to win the Tag Team Championship from Dupree and Suzuki. On the December 9 scene of SmackDown!, Van Dam and Mysterio vanquished Duprée and Suzuki to win the WWE Tag Team Championship, and held the title in a rematch at Armageddon. In January 2005, Van Dam endured a knee damage. To clarify his nonattendance, the Basham Brothers (Doug and Danny) crushed Mysterio and Van Dam for the Tag Team Championship, in a Fatal Four-Way disposal label group match on the January 13 scene of SmackDown!, "harming" Van Dam in the process. On January 27, Van Dam experienced reconstructive knee surgery under Dr. James Andrews to repair a torn foremost cruciate tendon and meniscus.

WWE and ECW World Heavyweight Champion

While recovering, Van Dam showed up at the ECW get-together pay-per-view ECW One Night Stand. Joined by his previous director Bill Alfonso and brandishing a knee prop, Van Dam conveyed a worked shoot promo, supporting ECW and censuring the way he had been reserved in WWE, until he was assaulted by Rhyno. He was spared by Sabu, who vanquished Rhyno in an extemporaneous match. Regardless of his harm, Van Dam got physically included in the match, hitting Rhyno with a chairshot and giving him a Chair Surf. Van Dam, while as yet recuperating, was drafted back to the Raw brand in the 2005 Draft Lottery. He was acquainted with Raw via Carlito, who offended Van Dam before assaulting him and attacking his knee. Van Dam made his arrival to the ring more than six months after the fact at the Royal Rumble. He picked up requital on Carlito by killing him, yet was thusly unintentionally dispensed with by Rey Mysterio in the last minutes. On the February 6 scene of Raw, Van Dam crushed Carlito in the first round of the 2006 Road to WrestleMania Tournament, however lost in the last round to Triple H, in a triple danger match, which likewise included Big Show. Later, Van Dam vanquished Trevor Murdoch to fit the bill for the Money in the Bank stepping stool match. Van Dam went ahead to win the match, along these lines acquiring himself an ensured shot at either the WWE Championship or World Heavyweight Championship whenever inside the resulting year. Following the step match, Shelton Benjamin tested Van Dam to put his Money in the Bank opportunity hanging in the balance in a match. Van Dam countered by asking for a match for Benjamin's Intercontinental Championship. After one week, both Van Dam and Benjamin picked riddle adversaries for each other, with the washout putting their individual prize on hold in a session at Backlash on April 30. Benjamin lost to the returning Charlie Haas, while Van Dam was crushed by every one of the five individuals from the Spirit Squad. Subsequently, both the Intercontinental Championship and the Money in the Bank title shot were challenged at Backlash. Van Dam went ahead to win both prizes, before dropping the Intercontinental Title back to Benjamin on the May 15 scene of Raw.

On May 29, Van Dam was chosen by Paul Heyman to be drafted from Raw to WWE's new ECW brand. At One Night Stand, Van Dam traded out his Money in the Bank contract and crushed John Cena to win the WWE Championship. After two officials were thumped out, Edge showed up from underneath the ring to assault Cena, skewering him through a table. Van Dam then hit a Five Star Frog Splash and the pinfall was checked by Paul Heyman, who all of a sudden kept running down the path. On the accompanying scene of Raw, Vince McMahon affirmed that the title change was legitimate, because of the match being held under "compelling guidelines". For as long as couple of weeks, Heyman had indicated that the WWE Championship would be "rechristened" the ECW World Heavyweight Championship when Van Dam won. On the introduction of ECW on Sci Fi, Van Dam was granted the reestablished ECW World Heavyweight Championship by Heyman. Van Dam, notwithstanding, chose to shield the WWE Championship independently and at the same time, kidding that "this one twists". In this manner, Van Dam turned into the principal wrestler in history to hold both the WWE Championship and the ECW World Heavyweight Championship, and the one and only to hold them in the meantime, making him a twofold title holder.

At Vengeance, Van Dam vanquished Edge to hold the WWE Championship. Two evenings later on ECW, Van Dam vanquished Kurt Angle to hold the ECW Championship. On the July 3 scene of Raw, Van Dam lost the WWE Championship to Edge in a triple risk coordinate that likewise highlighted John Cena. The following night on the July 4 scene of ECW, he lost the now renamed ECW World Championship to Big Show after Heyman turned on him. Later on WWE.com, Heyman suspended Van Dam for 30 days without giving a reason; (actually, WWE suspended Van Dam for 30 days as a consequence of his late medication ownership arrest).

He came back to TV on August 8, assaulting both Sabu and Kurt Angle amid a match. His arrival to the ring came a week later, in a losing push to Sabu in a stepping stool match for number one contendership to the ECW World Championship. Van Dam gradually worked his way once again into the title picture. In October, Van Dam crushed The Big Show in a non-title match to recapture the main contendership. Having the choice to pick a date, Van Dam reported the title match would happen at December to Dismember. Heyman, nonetheless, had the alternative of picking the match sort and declared that the headliner would be a six-man Extreme Elimination Chamber match. At the occasion, Van Dam was the third member dispensed with. Later in December, Van Dam at the end of the day earned the main contendership to the ECW World Championship, yet this time by a fan survey. Van Dam got three matches against ECW World Champion Bobby Lashley, missing the mark every time.

Ransack Van Dam later joined the ECW Originals alongside Sabu, Tommy Dreamer, and The Sandman. The ECW Originals started a fight with the New Breed (Elijah Burke, Kevin Thorn, Marcus Cor Von, and Matt Striker). The two groups went head to head at WrestleMania 23 in a match which the ECW Originals won. After Vince McMahon won the ECW World Championship at Backlash, RVD and the other ECW Originals made proclamations on WWE.com about McMahon executing ECW. The ECW Originals all contended fourly move to choose who might go up against McMahon the following week on ECW in a title match, which Van Dam won after a five-star frog sprinkle on Sandman. Van Dam, in any case, needed to confront McMahon, Shane McMahon, and Umaga in a 3-on-1 handicap match, which Van Dam was not able win.

Van Dam got a blackout amid a match with Randy Orton. Orton further assaulted Van Dam after the match because of the remarks Van Dam made on WWE.com about the absence of appreciation Orton showed towards Shawn Michaels, who additionally endured a blackout on account of Orton. Van Dam at the end of the day confronted Orton at One Night Stand, this time in a Stretcher match. Despite the fact that it looked as though Orton was going to win once more, Van Dam gave him a roundhouse kick to the head and could push the stretcher over the line for the win. In spite of winning the match, Orton kept on assaulting Van Dam, finishing with a hoisted DDT off the blockade and onto the solid floor. After the match, Van Dam left WWE due to being worn out and requiring time away.

Come back to the free circuit

The day after Van Dam's WWE contract lapsed, he was in the United Kingdom on a special visit and to record scenes for the wrestling narrative, Bloodstained Memoirs. He additionally participated in meetings for the BBC.

In a meeting with the Baltimore Sun, Van Dam expressed that while WWE would be the main decision and that he would converse with them, he would consider Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) on the off chance that he returned full-time to ace wrestling. He additionally talked his contemplations in regards to his decision between both organizations.

"              I certainly would think of them as. I would weigh out everything and choose what truly is the best thing to do. When I realized that I was not going to re-sign with WWE, which was around WrestleMania time when I knew for beyond any doubt that I was going to adhere to that arrangement, my first musings were, "alright, well there's this TNA." I feel that is entirely entertaining notwithstanding envisioning Vince offering into something to that effect hence. One thing that is without a doubt is that WWE and I do have a decent confidence understanding that if and when I'm prepared to give back that I'll be conversing with them. They look forward and trust that we'll be working together once more. They trust it's genuine soon. Truly, I'm free as anyone might imagine. I would likewise consider the lighter calendar from another organization. Yet, truly, surrendering the notoriety of the WWE would be something that I would take a gander at as a descending move. I don't fit with the recipe – I never have. I've never attempted to resemble any other person. I'm a non-conventionalist inside and out, and with regards to wrestling, that is absolutely valid, as well. On the off chance that I won on out and shouldn't do that, that is simply one more case of how I'm one of a kind.               "

While not under contract, Van Dam made an unannounced profit for the fifteenth Anniversary Raw in December 2007, squashing Santino Marella with a Five-Star Frog Splash. He showed up at the 2009 Royal Rumble however did not win. He came back to the free circuit by vieing for Associação Portuguesa de Wrestling (APW) in February 2008. He then additionally showed up for Nu-Wrestling Evolution (NWE) all through nations, for example, Spain. Amid his spell in NWE, Van Dam additionally prepared with The Ultimate Warrior for his wrestling return.[citation needed] On August 14, 2008 he won a triple danger match at the Inoki Genome Federation in Japan subsequent to crushing Kendo Kashin and Necro Butcher.

On March 9, 2009, it was declared that RVD would contend in American Wrestling Rampage (AWR) on their European Tour, amid which he won the advancement's No Limits Wrestling (NLW) Championship threely session versus Sabu and previous champion Shawn Maxer. He lost the title to René Duprée after three fruitful safeguards. In November he recaptured the title, renamed the AWR World Heavyweight Championship now, from Duprée on November 29 winning two choices in a Two Out Of Three Falls match.

On September 11, 2009 in the World Stars of Wrestling (WSW) European Championship occasions in Portimão, Portugal, RVD won the WSW World Championship, by vanquishing Joe E. Legend. On the next night he guarded his recently won title against Lance Cade.

On January 30, 2010, RVD made his introduction for Pro Wrestling Guerrilla as a feature of WrestleReunion 4, crushing Chris Hero and Roderick Strong in an "Out of this world" three-way match.

Add up to Nonstop Action Wrestling

TNA World Heavyweight Champion

On March 8, 2010, Van Dam made his presentation for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) at the advancement's Monday night scene of Impact!, vanquishing Sting. At that point seconds after his presentation triumph Sting assaulted him and later Hulk Hogan with his mark baseball bat. RVD got his vengeance on Sting the next week by assaulting him amid his entrance. RVD cooperated with Jeff Hardy in a label group match, where they vanquished Beer Money, Inc. (Robert Roode and James Storm) on the March 22 scene of Impact!. The next week both of them cooperated with Eric Young and vanquished The Band (Kevin Nash, Scott Hall and Syxx-Pac) in a six-man label group steel confine match. Both Van Dam and Hardy got to be individuals from Team Hogan (joining Abyss and Jeff Jarrett) for the yearly Lethal Lockdown match, where they crushed Team Flair (Sting, Desmond Wolfe, Robert Roode and James Storm).

The night after Lockdown he initially vanquished Jeff Hardy in a main contender's match and afterward, in the headliner of the night, A.J. Styles to end up the new TNA World Heavyweight Champion. After succeeding in his initially broadcast title safeguard against Desmond Wolfe, Styles assaulted Van Dam, reporting the conjuring of the rematch condition for Sacrifice. At Sacrifice Van Dam crushed Styles in a rematch. The next month at Slammiversary VIII Van Dam held his title against Sting in a rematch of his TNA debut. Van Dam vanquished Abyss, Jeff Hardy and Mr. Anderson in a four–way match to hold the World Heavyweight Championship at Victory Road. On the accompanying scene of Impact! Van Dam adjusted himself to individual ECW graduated class Tommy Dreamer, Raven, Stevie Richards, Rhino, Brother Devon, Pat Kenney, Al Snow and Mick Foley, who spared him from a beating on account of Abyss. The next week, TNA president Dixie Carter consented to give the ECW graduated class their own particular get-together pay–per–view occasion, Hardcore Justice. At the occasion on August 8 Van Dam vanquished previous label group accomplice and adversary Sabu in a non-title Hardcore Rules match, after his initially arranged match with Jerry Lynn was scrapped because of Lynn enduring a back injury. After effectively safeguarding the title against Abyss in a Stairway to Janice match on the accompanying extraordinary version of Impact!, named The Whole F'n Show, Van Dam and the other previous ECW wrestlers were struck by Abyss and Fourtune. In the assault Van Dam endured different genuine storyline wounds on account of Abyss including the requirement for lines, spinal injury and conceivable intense mind harm, which would compel him to clear the TNA World Heavyweight Championship on August 10 at the taping of the August 19 scene of Impact!. as a general rule, Van Dam was coming up short on dates every year on his agreement and was in this manner taken off television.

Van Dam returned by means of phone meeting on the September 16 scene of Impact! what's more, reported that he would come back to the Impact! Zone the next week, against his specialist's orders. Van Dam gave back the next week, standing up to Abyss and requesting a match against him at Bound for Glory, which Eric Bischoff consented to give him. At Bound for Glory Van Dam vanquished Abyss in a Monster's Ball match. Toward the end of the occasion it was uncovered that Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff had sent Abyss after Van Dam with a specific end goal to get the TNA World Heavyweight Championship all alone illustrative, Jeff Hardy. Van Dam defied the gathering, later named Immortal, after Hardy had won the World Heavyweight Championship, just to get hit with the title belt. On the October 21 scene of Impact! Bischoff guaranteed that somebody from EV 2.0 had been calling him, attempting to get the chance to be a piece of Immortal, which prompted Van Dam getting jumpy about his stablemates, first blaming Raven for being the double crosser. Later, he and Sabu were vanquished in a label group match by Beer Money, Inc., after Sabu coincidentally hit him with a seat. After the match Van Dam and Sabu started pushing each other and must be isolated from each other by whatever is left of EV 2.0. After two more weeks of disagreement between Van Dam and whatever remains of EV 2.0, Tommy Dreamer tested him to a match at Turning Point. At the pay–per–view Van Dam crushed Dreamer and a while later made peace with him. On the accompanying scene of Impact! Rhino turned heel by assaulting Van Dam and Dreamer, uncovering himself as the backstabber Van Dam had been looking for. At Final Resolution Van Dam vanquished Rhino in a First Blood match.

Title interests

On January 4, 2011, Van Dam made a trip to Japan with other TNA wrestlers to partake New Japan Pro Wrestling's (NJPW) fifth yearly Wrestle Kingdom in Tokyo Dome, where he crushed Toru Yano in a no-nonsense match. At Genesis Van Dam was vanquished by Immortal's astonishment adversary, the appearing Matt Hardy, when ref Jackson James missed Van Dam's foot under the ropes, along these lines neglecting to procure a shot at his sibling Jeff's World Heavyweight Championship. Amid the headliner Van Dam kept Matt from meddling in Jeff's match with Mr. Anderson, which prompted Jeff losing the title. The next month at Against All Odds, Van Dam crushed Matt Hardy in a rematch. On the accompanying scene of Impact!, Van Dam at long last got his shot at Jeff Hardy and the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, yet was not able recover the title. On March 13 at Victory Road, Van Dam wrestled Mr. Anderson to a twofold countout in a World Heavyweight Championship number one contender's match. On April 17 at Lockdown, Van Dam fizzled in his endeavor to recover the TNA World Heavyweight Championship from Sting in a three–way steel confine match, which additionally included Anderson. The next month at Sacrifice, Van Dam again neglected to recapture the title, this time in a singles match with Sting.

Van Dam spoke to TNA at Mexican advancement Asistencia Asesoría y Administración's (AAA) Triplemanía XIX pay-per-view on June 18, 2011. In the headliner of the appear, Van Dam was vanquished by Dr. Wagner, Jr. in a match to decide the primary ever AAA Latin American Champion. At Destination X on July 10, Van Dam crushed long-lasting opponent Jerry Lynn in a singles match. On August 7 at Hardcore Justice, Van Dam, at the time positioned number two in the Bound for Glory Series, confronted Crimson, positioned number one, in a competition match. Van Dam lost the match by means of preclusion, when Jerry Lynn entered the ring, costing him the match, as well as a few spots in the competition's standings. Lynn cost Van Dam another Bound for Glory Series match against A.J. Styles in comparable design on the August 18 Impact Wrestling. Lynn turned on Van Dam on the September 1 Impact Wrestling, costing him his match with Gunner and, all the while, dispensing with him from the finals of the Bound for Glory Series. The next week Lynn clarified his turn by asserting that he was worn out on being in Van Dam's shadow. Van Dam crushed Lynn in a Full Metal Mayhem match at Bound for Glory.

On the October 27 scene of Impact Wrestling, Van Dam vanquished Christopher Daniels by preclusion after Daniels hit him with a toolbox. Two weeks after the fact, Van Dam kept Daniels from utilizing a screwdriver to unlawfully overcome A.J. Styles in a singles match which would cost Daniels the match. At Turning Point, Van Dam crushed Daniels in a No Disqualification match. In striking back, Daniels cost him his match for the TNA Television Championship against Robbie E on the December 1 scene of Impact Wrestling. Van Dam vanquished Daniels at Final Resolution on December 11 again to end their feud.

In the wake of wrestling to a twofold countout on the January 5, 2012, version of Impact Wrestling, Gunner made a fizzled endeavor to piledrive Van Dam into the solid floor after Van Dam back body dropped him onto it. Three days after the fact at Genesis, Van Dam was vanquished by Gunner and was a while later stretchered backstage, subsequent to taking a DDT onto the solid floor. After a close to three-month nonattendance Van Dam continued working live occasions in late March. Van Dam came back to Impact Wrestling on April 12, being uncovered as the fifth individual from Garett Bischoff's group at Lockdown. At the compensation per-view, Team Garett crushed a group drove by Eric Bischoff. On the accompanying scene of Impact Wrestling, Van Dam vanquished Jeff Hardy and Mr. Anderson in a three-manner match to end up the main contender to the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. Van Dam got his title opportunity in a stepping stool match on May 13 at Sacrifice, however was vanquished by the safeguarding champion, Bobby Roode. At Slammiversary on June 10, Van Dam was crushed by Mr. Anderson in a three-manner number one contender's match, additionally including Jeff Hardy. Later that week on Impact Wrestling, Van Dam entered the 2012 Bound for Glory Series. He wrestled his last match in the competition on the September 6 Impact Wrestling, losing to Bully Ray, accordingly completing fifth and barely missing the elimination rounds of the tournament. On the October 4 scene of Impact Wrestling, Van Dam unsuccessfully tested Samoa Joe for the TNA Television Championship.

Come back to WWE

On June 16, 2013, at Payback, it was declared that Van Dam would return at Money in the Bank. Van Dam was later reported as one of the members in the WWE Championship Money in the Bank stepping stool match alongside Christian, CM Punk, Daniel Bryan, Randy Orton, and Sheamus, in any case, the match was eventually won by Orton on July 14. Van Dam got an enormous applause on his arrival as fans droned "despite everything you have it!" The next night, Van Dam wrestled his first Raw match in just about six years, overcoming Chris Jericho. Four days after the fact, Van Dam wrestled his first SmackDown match in eight years, when he vanquished Darren Young. After crushing Wade Barrett on Raw four days after the fact Van Dam endured his first misfortune since coming back to WWE on the July 26 scene of SmackDown, when he was stuck by World Heavyweight Champion Alberto Del Rio in a non-title match. Two weeks after the fact on Raw, Van Dam crushed Del Rio in a rematch. On the August 12 scene of Raw, Van Dam won a twenty-man fight illustrious, by last disposing of Mark Henry to end up the main contender to the United States Championship. After the match, Van Dam and Henry were faced by The Shield (Dean Ambrose, Roman Reigns, and Seth Rollins), before the returning Big Show went to their aid. Four days after the fact on SmackDown, Van Dam, Henry, and Show crushed the Shield in a six-man label group match, with Van Dam sticking Ambrose for the win. Van Dam got his title shot on August 18, amid the SummerSlam pre-appear, where he vanquished Ambrose by means of preclusion after Roman Reigns skewered Van Dam, not winning the title as a result. Van Dam then adjusted himself to Alberto Del Rio's previous ring host Ricardo Rodriguez the next night on Raw, to fight with Del Rio. The next week on Raw, Van Dam, with Rodriguez in his corner, vanquished Del Rio in a non-title match to win a shot at his World Heavyweight Championship. The title match occurred on September 15 at Night of Champions, where Van Dam won the match through exclusion, yet did not win the title. Van Dam got another shot at the World Heavyweight Championship in a Hardcore match at Battleground, however was crushed by Del Rio.

RVD came back to Raw on April 7, 2014, less Rodriguez, vanquishing Damien Sandow. The next week on Raw, Van Dam entered in Intercontinental Championship competition, vanquishing Alberto Del Rio in the first round and Cesaro in the semi finals however lost in the last round to Bad News Barrett. At Extreme Rules, Van Dam confronted Cesaro and Jack Swagger in a Triple Threat Elimination match, which was won by Cesaro in the wake of sticking Van Dam last, who had stuck Swagger first. On the May 19 version of Raw, Van Dam won a Beat the Clock challenge match by overcoming Alberto Del Rio in the speediest time, to end up the main contender for the Intercontinental Championship at Payback, despite the fact that he lost to Barrett at the occasion. On June 26th Van Dam showed up on NXT in a losing push to then NXT Champion Adrian Neville. At Money in the Bank, Van Dam partook in the Money in the Bank Ladder match for the folder case, yet was won by Seth Rollins. On July 1 release of Main Event, Van Dam was declared as a member in a fight imperial at Battleground for the empty Intercontinental Championship, however he endured a damage and was not able contend. Van Dam came back to the ring on the August 4 version of Raw where he was planned to contend with Seth Rollins in a Beat the Clock challenge match, yet was exchanged with Heath Slater by the request of The Authority. At SummerSlam, Van Dam crushed Cesaro amid the pre-appear. In the wake of crushing Seth Rollins by countout on the August 26 version of Main Event, Van Dam completed his keep running with WWE on the August 29 scene of SmackDown, where he confronted Rollins in a losing effort. He showed up at the 2014 Slammy Awards to introduce the Slammy Award for Extreme Moment of the Year.

In August of 2016, RVD uncovered he had been drawn nearer around an arrival to the WWE in December of 2015 to group with the Dudley Boyz in their fight against the Wyatt Family before turning the offer down. Later in August, RVD would show up on WWE Network Special Table for Three close by Mick Foley and Raven as they talked about the historical backdrop of the Hardcore Championship.

Individual life

Szatkowski is of Polish heritage. Szatkowski wedded his significant other, Sonya Szatkowski (née Delbeck), in 1998. During his wrestling profession, Sonya regularly went out and about with Szatkowski and showed up at ringside amid occasions in which Szatkowski partook. On April 23, 2008, Szatkowski uncovered that his significant other was experiencing cancer. She has since made a full recovery. In 2011, he performed stand up at the Jon Lovitz Comedy Club. In May 2016, it was accounted for that Sonya Szatkowski had petitioned for separation, refering to "hopeless differences".

Titles and achievements

Elite player Wrestling

ASW North American Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

American Wrestling Rampage

AWR Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

AWR No Limits Championship (1 time)

Amazing Championship Wrestling

ECW World Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Sabu

ECW World Television Championship (1 time)

Global Wrestling Federation

IWF Television Championship (1 time)

National Wrestling Council

NWC Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Bobby Bradley

Peach State Wrestling

PSW Cordele City Heavyweight Championship (2 times)

Star Wrestling Illustrated

Rebound of the Year (2001, 2010)

Most Popular Wrestler of the Year (2001, 2002)

PWI positioned him 1 of the main 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2002

South Atlantic Pro Wrestling

SAPW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Chaz Rocco

Add up to Nonstop Action Wrestling

TNA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

TNA X Division Championship (1 time)

World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment

ECW World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

World Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Kane (1) and Booker T (1)

WWE Championship (1 time)

WWF/E Hardcore Championship (4 times)

WWF/E Intercontinental Championship (6 times)

WWE European Championship (1 time)[a]

WWE Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Rey Mysterio

Cash in the Bank (2006)

Eighth Grand Slam Champion

Fifteenth Triple Crown Champion

Intercontinental Championship #1 contenders Tournament (2014)

World Stars of Wrestling

WSW World Championship (1 time)