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The Baltimore Sun has an interview up with Rob Van Dam. Here are a few highlights;

Was there any discussion of a fulltime return to WWE or was it always intended to be a one-shot deal?

It was more of a discussion of, “Are we ready or not to talk about a fulltime return,� and once the answer to that was no, I’m not ready to talk about that, than it just doesn’t go any further. There was no need to have any formal conversation about it. Same thing I told the boys down South recently, too. I’m simply just not ready to return. And honestly, I don’t know that I will ever be ready to return fulltime to living out of my suitcase. The return on Monday Night Raw was a win-win. It was a lot of fun, it was a happy reunion, and it was quick in and out. The other boys that were there that night that were getting dressed, they seemed to have a little more pressure on their shoulders than RVD.

You referred to “another company� in your answer, which I’m presuming is TNA. They do have a lighter schedule, as you said, and I know that you have some friends there. Would you really consider going to TNA?

I definitely would consider them. I would weigh out everything and decide what really is the best thing to do. When I knew that I wasn’t going to re-sign with WWE, which was around WrestleMania time when I knew for sure that I was going to stick to that plan, my first thoughts were, “OK, well there’s this TNA. I could go there to continue my career, still on television, but with a much-lighter schedule.� Towards the end I was so burned out on wrestling that I didn’t even want to do that. So, I said, “Well, I’ll travel around and sign autographs,� because I’ve always enjoyed doing that. I do that at comic conventions, sporting conventions, gaming conventions, celebrity signing conventions, whatever. I can always keep busy doing that, but towards the end, I was so burned out on travel that I didn’t want to do that either. I just wanted to stay home in California and not fly, with the exception of a few dates. I went to England, Australia and New Zealand because they were good trips and I was able to bring my wife, and they were good financial deals.

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