By the end of the meeting, RVD and Heyman worked out a new ECW contract with guaranteed pay and favored nations. That wasn’t all. Heyman promised RVD he could get him to wrestle matches on WWE programming — on behalf of ECW.

“I said, ‘How are you going to do that?’ He goes, ‘Let’s just say Vince owes me some favors. If I could do that, if I could put you on “Raw” just for a few weeks … and you would be on ECW here. You will be in the spotlight. The business would be around you. You’d be the center point, plus all the money and s–t.’ And that’s how we worked it out,” RVD added. Understandably, RVD was skeptical of Heyman’s promises, especially since he had no idea of the relationship between the ECW boss and WWE. “I was like, ‘You really can do that?’ I had no idea about his relationship, none of us did, with WWE. We didn’t know he was working for them. I sure didn’t know that he was selling me to them without me knowing which ended up being the case.”

RVD would go on to win three of his four televised WWE matches, as Vince McMahon had plans for “The Whole F’N Show” to be featured as a prominent star. Alas, McMahon would find out later that Heyman was using the WWE invasion angle to lure RVD back to ECW, and give ECW the national exposure it desired. For Heyman, it was mission accomplished, as RVD would go on to stay with ECW until the promotion went out of business in early 2001.