Rob Van Dam says fans have been blaming him for getting TNA Wrestling banned from Twitch over a wild threesome segment that aired in 2020 — but he says he wasn’t the one calling the shots. The WWE Hall of Famer claims the company scripted the bedroom scene involving himself, Katie Forbes and Jennifer Barlow, and he simply agreed to do it.
During the November 11, 2026 episode of his podcast, RVD brought up the infamous January 14, 2020 segment that showed him in bed with Forbes and Barlow, complete with whipped cream, topless shots and censor bars covering the women. The footage was so sexually suggestive that TNA Wrestling ended up getting banned from Twitch shortly afterward. RVD explained that fans assumed he was responsible for the whole thing, but the segment wasn’t something he came up with himself. Someone in TNA creative wrote it, brought it to the three of them, and they agreed to film it.
“That is one of an example of like one of those times where where you get credit for something but it was just something that somebody wrote down and ran by us, you know, and we said sure.”
Van Dam also said the censor bars made some viewers think they had watched actual pornography on TNA television, which created even more controversy.
“We actually had heat from some people thinking um one they think now that they’ve that they’ve seen us do porn.”
What really bothered RVD was getting blamed for the segment making it onto television in the first place. He questioned how anyone could hold him responsible for TNA’s final broadcast when he didn’t have any control over the editing process.
“Do I have the final editing power to make it? This is going to make the final cut.”
The fallout was real. Twitch suspended TNA’s account, and the company later removed the controversial bedroom segment from YouTube. Twitch wouldn’t discuss the specific ban but pointed to its rules against sexual content. RVD even joked about selling a “Rob Ban Dam” T-shirt while the controversy was going on.
Six years later, RVD is still defending himself over the incident. He isn’t denying what happened in the bedroom scene, but he says there’s a big difference between performing something the company wrote and being the person responsible for putting it on television. As far as Van Dam is concerned, fans have been pointing the finger at the wrong person.
Do you think Rob Van Dam deserves any blame for TNA getting banned from Twitch, or was that entirely the company’s responsibility? Let us know what you think in the comments below.
