-Mic work/promos - 7
He had good promos in ECW. Passable in WWE even if most of them were just cool, dude, etc. His most memorable promo for me being the one he cut at ECW One Night Stand 2005 basically saying as much. The ones where he riffed on HHH's gimmick from 2002 that were posted are also fun. Not too many outright memorable ones for me but nothing flat out terrible to rank him 5 or something. 7 seems right for me.
-Personality/Gimmicks - 8
Calm, cool, collected. One of the few guys who didn't have to be a charicature, or over the top to become wildly popular. That's not who or what RVD was. If anything his cool demeanor was his appeal. He didn't yell, scream, was rarely angry. He was a nickname generator at a point too with how many cool ones he had.
Ring Work (Along with some of your favorite matches/feuds) - 7
Very innovative and entertaining to watch. Crazy athletic. His ECW run is the stuff of legend in terms of what he could pull off in the ring. Loved his matches with Bigelow as well as his stuff with Sabu. That tag match where they fought Hayabusa and Jinsei Shinzaki is always a fun watch. His series with Lynn was cool if not totally for me. His WWF/E career never really went as well as it could or should've so I don't think his list of classics is as high as it could've been otherwise since he was basically "just there" post HHH feud - pre ECW resurrection. Plus like someone else mentioned he just rested on his laurels early on and didn't really deviate from his formula often. Among my favorite WWF/E matches of his, off hand the RAW match with Shawn Michaels, Vengeance 2006 with Edge, inVasion against Jeff Hardy as well as the Summerslam ladder match, the ONS match with Cena, some of his matches with Eddy. His 2013 return produced a few good matches with Del Rio. His TNA run is largely forgettable despite a World Title run, although I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy the Hardcore Justice match with Sabu.
Overall rating (which doesn't have to be an average of the above scores) - 7
Had his WWF/E run had more to it I could bump this up. But his career largely just stagnated for like 4 or 5 years, and even that shot in the arm he had in 2006 was way too brief (mostly due to his own doing). He had very few discernible feuds or rivalries to look back on despite multiple midcard and tag title reigns, and repetitious matches knocked him down. His TNA run was largely blah although I enjoyed the Sabu match like I said and I didn't hate his time in the X Divison. His ECW run is legendary and where most of the rating comes from.
