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Rob Van Dam
Sign in to saveAlso known as Robert Alexander Szatkowski, Robert Szatkowski, RVD
American professional wrestler and actor (born 1970)
Person · Open Library
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- 0
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Film & TV
Acting · Battle Creek, Michigan, USA
Robert Alexander Szatkowski, better known by his ring name Rob Van Dam (RVD), is an American professional wrestler and actor. Szatkowski has held 20 championships between ECW, WWE, and TNA, as well as several regional titles in various promotions during his career. He is officially recognized by TNA as a three-time world champion having held the WWE Championship, ECW World Heavyweight…
Known for
- Night of the Living Dead — Harris2026
- JCW Strangle-Mania: Viva Las Violence 2026 — Rob Van Dam2026
- Sabu — Self2025
- Nevermore: The Raven Effect — Rob Van Dam2025
- Saturday Night's Main Event - John Cena's Final Match — Rob Van Dam2025
- The Realtor — The Dominator2024
- CyberFight Festival 2022 — Rob Van Dam2022
- F1RST Wrestling Saturday Night Nitro — Rob Van Dam2022
- Hey! (EW) — RVD2022
- Assault on VA-33 — Zero2021
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 647
- Total plays
- 3,766
Tags
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,745x
- Densely Connected Convolutional Networks
· 2017 · cited 32,885x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,753x
- Molecular dynamics with coupling to an external bath
· 1984 · cited 28,497x
- MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space
· 2012 · cited 24,164x
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Quotes
- “This is the ECW World Championship, and I will wear it proudly. [Points to the WWE Championship on his left shoulder] And look at this one—it spins!”
- “I think the way that I've gone through life, kind of following my own path, has just been the only way I could've lived my life. It's not about trying to be different, it's about not bothering to try to be like everybody else.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Robert Szatkowski , ( 1970-12-18 ) December 18, 1970 (age 55) , Battle Creek, Michigan , U.S.
- Spouses
- Sonya Delbeck ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1998 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2018 ) Katie Forbes ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2021 )
- Website
- robvandam .com
- Ring name s
- Matt Burn , Rob Szatkowski , Rob Van Dam , Robbie V
- Billed height
- 6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
- Billed weight
- 235 lb (107 kg)
- Billed from
- Battle Creek, Michigan , Los Angeles, California
- Trained by
- The Sheik
- Channel
- 1 Of A Kind With RVD
- Years active
- 2023–present
- Genre
- Professional wrestling
- Subscribers
- 17.4 thousand
- Views
- 1.1 million
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.robvandam.com
- Image
- Rob-van-dam.jpg
- Height
- 183
- Number of children
- 2
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- Commons category
- Rob Van Dam
- date of birth
- 1970-12-18
- start of work period
- 1990-00-00
- social media followers
- 1068864
- end of work period
- 2023-00-00
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Article
Robert Szatkowski (born December 18, 1970) better known by his ring name Rob Van Dam (frequently abbreviated to RVD) is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE under a Legends contract. Known for his unique ring style—which includes his variety of kicks, acrobatic movements—and flexibility, Van Dam is one of the most popular wrestlers in the world. He is also known for his tenures in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).
Van Dam gained mainstream popularity in ECW during the latter half of the 1990s. During his time in ECW, he was managed by Bill Alfonso and had feuds with Jerry Lynn and Sabu, also forming a tag team with the latter. They won the ECW World Tag Team Championship twice. On April 4, 1998, Van Dam defeated Bam Bam Bigelow to win the ECW Television Championship, a title he held for 700 days until he vacated the championship due to an injury on March 4, 2000.