During a recent edition of his “1 Of A Kind” podcast, WWE Hall of Famer Rob Van Dam discussed his Frog Splash during the 2002 Elimination Chamber match, which injured Triple H.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On his Elimination Chamber frog splash onto Triple H: “At the time, it didn’t seem like like a huge risk? But that might have been because more of the risk was my targets — risking his safety over mine in retrospect. Because for me, I’m up there high but that part isn’t super scary or even super risky. I know gravity will take me down, it was just a matter of how far out do I push. I don’t know how to judge that. There’s no spring; It’s a solid and also, I don’t know from being up this high if I’m going to go out further just from having my arch extended. And so in retrospect, it was a risk that I — it was risky enough to f**k it up.”
On the idea: “It wasn’t my idea, but I’m definitely not trying to deflect any blame. I thought I could do it. And when I was up there I went to stand .And I was like, ‘Well, I can’t stand all the way, I have something over my head. And even though I don’t even have to stand all the way up to do the frog splash in the corner; a lot of times I just do it from a squat and I don’t stand all. But being bent down and having that over my head, I felt like I can’t even stand up without hitting it and it f**king up my move, my momentum, my direction, everything.
“So I wanted to go out, but I don’t want to go out too far. So yeah, I misjudged it and when I came down, my shin hit him across his neck. And I don’t think I even knew — you know, I knew it probably wasn’t the cleanest frog splash. But outside of that, I didn’t understand right away. And I don’t remember at what point did I know that I had heard him.”
