WWE Hall of Famer Rob Van Dam has revealed that he had to grab former WWE star Sunny’s backside for a promo.
RVD had been a top star of Paul Heyman’s ECW in the late 90s. He squared off against all sorts of top stars in the company and engaged in bizarre promos as well.
Chris Candido joined ECW in 1996 after a short stint in WWE. His long-time girlfriend Sunny started working with him after she was released by WWE in 1998.
Rob Van Dam opens up on the matter
While speaking during an episode of the 1 Of A Kind podcast, RVD recalled shooting a backstage segment with Candido and Sunny in ECW. In the promo, RVD had to grab Sunny’s backside and ended up grabbing it hard after a failed attempt.
“In ECW, there was one time that sticks out in my mind where we were doing a promo where I’m walking in the building and they’re walking out or vice versa and we’re passing each other carrying the little rolling bag or whatever and when they walked by me, they wanted me to grab Tammy’s ass. That was the deal. And Chris gets mad and then we have some words or whatever, ‘we’ll settle this in the ring tonight.’ You know, one of those things. And so like I just thought you know, I’ll work and the camera’s not gonna know whatever and we went by and I just lightly patted her on the ass.
And we did it and they were like ‘cut.’ Anyway, Tammy comes up but she says, ‘I couldn’t even feel it. I couldn’t even feel his hand on my ass. Look, like grab it like, you know, squeeze it.’ And I was thinking, ‘you know, she’s always want me to put over her advances and I never do and so this is a chance for, you know, I get it.’ But just like Sandman told me to lay it in the first time I ever gave him a kick, I wanted to try to make her regret it. I walked by them and I just ughh and I just squeezed it like as hard as I could, deep, hard, like ughhh, like really hard until they turn around and, ‘oh,’ she screamed, which was supposed to and then Chris went on with the promo and I never talked to her about it afterwards.”
