Rob Van Dam Denies Blame for TNA's 2020 Twitch Ban

Rob Van Dam wants fans to tell apart acting in a TNA scene and deciding that it goes on air. The WWE Hall of Famer says fans have long blamed him, but six years after a bedroom segment got TNA banned from Twitch, he says he was never the one calling the shots.

A bedroom scene and a platform ban

The segment aired on January 14, 2020. Van Dam appeared in bed with Katie Forbes and Jennifer Barlow. There was whipped cream, and censor bars covered the women. TNA was banned from Twitch soon afterward.

The fallout went past the ban. Twitch suspended TNA's account, and the company later pulled the clip from YouTube. Twitch gave no detail on the case and pointed only to its rules on sexual content.

Written by creative, he says

Van Dam raised the topic on the November 11, 2026 episode of his podcast. Fans assumed the idea was his, he said. In his account, someone in TNA creative wrote it and brought it to the three performers, who agreed to shoot it. He described it as "something that somebody wrote down and ran by us."

Porn rumors and the final cut

The censor bars brought their own problem. Some viewers decided they had seen real pornography on TNA television, and Van Dam said that drew extra heat.

What bothered him most was being blamed for the footage reaching television at all. "Do I have the final editing power to make it?" he asked, saying the final cut was not in his hands.

He also joked about putting a shirt on sale while the controversy ran, a play on his name and the ban.

Source: Ringside News