Rob Van Dam Thinks Logan Paul Is ‘Exceptional,’ Says Women In WWE Have Stepped Up

Rob Van Dam thinks Logan Paul is an exception to the rule of celebrities in WWE, noting that he is “way ahead of the game” in terms of his ability. Paul has become a major player on WWE TV, allying with The Vision and holding the United States Championship back in 2023. His involvement has been greater then your average “WWE celebrity” and has been appearing full-time in recent months.

Van Dam was asked about Paul’s WWE work and more during his interview with Games Hub. RVD talked about how Paul is an exception to the rule and is doing very well thus far. He also weighed in on if there’s anyone who is underutilized in WWE, noting that he doesn’t see anyone as such but taking time to praise the women’s division. You can see the highlights below:

On Logan Paul’s Push in WWE:

“There’s always exceptions and there’s no doubt in my mind that he’s an exception. There’s no doubt that Logan is exceptionally good at what he is doing. I still don’t think that he does what we do, what we’ve been doing for 30 years, probably because I don’t think there’s really a way to fast track the experience and I’ve heard from wrestlers that are in the ring with him wrestling that it’s not like wrestling a veteran, it’s more like wrestling someone that’s just had a few matches, even if it doesn’t come across that way.

“So with that perspective in mind, I think he’s exceptional, he is way ahead of the game, he is definitely talented and without having the experience of paying the dues, getting beaten up for years by the veterans, learning the pecking order of the locker room mentality and learning to not be too comfortable until you’ve been there five years and all that stuff that he seemed to bypass. Just being an old school head, I don’t see the same product in the end, but then the whole product has changed anyway. So he probably fits in today’s product a lot more than he would’ve in say the 2000’s, he probably wouldn’t have been able to just come in, and do all that, there were probably still a lot of veterans around that wouldn’t allow it as well.”

On If There’s Anyone In WWE Who Is Underutilized:

“I mean that it seems like that’s always their job, they’re over obligated, they got so much TV time and they gotta figure out how to use everybody. Nobody really comes to mind. I feel like I prefer watching the ladies actually a lot more because they’ve really stepped it up. If you go back to like 2001, when I came into WWE, the girls weren’t the best workers and a lot of wrestling fans would say that when the girls are on, that was their break to run to the kitchen or whatever, watching it. I didn’t know that girls could even move like they were fighting because they seemed so unnatural before, but they were hot, they get really hot girls. That’s not the same thing as someone that’s a tomboy that fought with their brothers and grew up that way. So now they have so many girls that qualify that I don’t see how they’re gonna use all of them because they gotta beat each other. We had Saraya on here recently and she’s a prime example of someone who’s taken the game by storm when she was wrestling. And the NXT too, watching the girls that are coming up, I’m so impressed with them and they seem like they’ve closed the gap and lady wrestling might be just as popular as men wrestling someday.

“David McClain had the idea with WOW forever ago, but he just took actresses and then tried to make them into wrestlers and then the quality of the matches from a wrestler’s point of view was always shitty when they didn’t have the actual wrestlers, but then now I feel like the style of today’s product is more of a hybrid.”