RVD (Rob Van Dam) made his AEW in-ring debut on last Wednesday’s episode of Dynamite, where he lost to Jack Perry for the FTW Championship. It ended after Perry won with a low blow.

RVD had his old ECW theme song, Walk by Pantera, for the short run. AEW President Tony Khan told the Battleground Podcast that he had a backup song just in case he couldn’t get the song.

“We did have a backup (song for RVD’s AEW stint) but it wouldn’t have been the same and that’s why I wanted to pay the extra and go the extra mile and get ‘Walk’ by Pantera. Pantera was great and worked with us and we worked out a reasonable deal. I compare music licenses in wrestling to trades in pro sports. It’s like, you can do your best but, every trade is its own transaction. It has to be between at least two willing parties. It can’t just be one willing party in a trade and I think that’s very similar with music rights in wrestling. You have to reach a deal that’s fair for everybody and sometimes the value is in the eye of the beholder and sometimes people ask for money that I don’t think is reasonable. Other times, we’ve gotten deals that I thought were very fair. But we do use a lot of licensed music and in perpetuity. So someday when the AEW streaming library becomes available per our exclusive rights with Warner Bros. Discovery, the great company we’re very fortunate to team with, I am optimistic someday all of this will live on Max hopefully and every great moment where we’ve licensed music, we still have that music. I paid for the rights in perpetuity. So whether it was something incredibly moving and memorable like when we used Tom Waits’ Ol’ ’55 for the tribute video to the late, great Mr. Brodie Lee or like you said, something fun with the great entrance, RVD-Pantera. Other great moments like Bryan Danielson and The Final Countdown at Forbidden Door and so many other of the great things we’ve done over the years.”

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Tony Khan Had Backup Song For RVD’s AEW Run

RVD (Rob Van Dam) made his AEW in-ring debut on last Wednesday’s episode of Dynamite, where he lost to Jack Perry for the FT