Who is Rob Van Dam’s wife Katie Forbes? All about the professional wrestler as couple announce pregnancy

American professional wrestler Rob Van Dam and his wife, Katie Forbes, announced that they are expecting their baby in 2026, 411MANIA reported. The WWE Hall of Famer announced the news on his podcast, 1 of a Kind, and his Instagram account on Thursday, June 12. This is Van Dam and Forbes' first time becoming parents.

Rob Van Dam, aka Robert Szatkowski, is a 54-year-old American professional wrestler. He is married to Katie Forbes, 34, a professional wrestler. Rob and Forbes had been together for about five years before they married in 2021.

RVD has many titles to his name, like the WWE Championship, TNA World Heavyweight Championship, and ECW World Heavyweight Championship. Katie Forbes holds many titles from when she wrestled for promotions, like CWE Divas Championship, RCW Women's Championship, etc.

In the Instagram post shared on June 12, the wrestlers are posing with a baby onesie labeled "The Next WWE Superstar," while the caption reads,

Baby Van Dam coming 2026 💕🎊🎉

More details about Katie Forbes and her relationship with Rob Van Dam.

Katie Forbes is a wrestler from Tampa, Florida. She was born on December 30, 1990. Forbes began her wrestling career in the year 2015 with Great Lakes Championship Wrestling. During her career, she also wrestled for promotion, and in 2019, she debuted in Ring of Honor and later transitioned to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), and it is with TNA that she gained recognition.

According to The SmackDown Hotel, she also had Katie Hultz as her ring name. Apart from being a wrestler, Forbes is also a manager for the Independent Circuit. Katie Forbes is RVD's second wife, as he was previously married to Sonia Delbeck for about 20 years, from 1998 to 2018.

According to The Sportster, RVD alleged that he divorced Sonia because she cheated on him. Though RVD and Sonia got divorced in 2018, they split in 2015. Later, in 2016, RVD began seeing Forbes. The couple reportedly met at a wrestling convention in April 2016. According to WrestlingInc, RVD once shared in his podcast that

"Katie and I met at WrestleCon in Dallas in 2016. She was there at the Wildcats booth with Luke Hawkes(...) I didn't know, but I was already on her radar."

According to The Sportster, RVD and Forbes dated for about five years before the duo announced their engagement in February 2021, and later, in November 2021, the wrestler couple got married in a private ceremony attended by fellow wrestlers like Diamond Dallas Page, Chris Bey, and more.

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More facts about Rob Van Dam

According to the Times of India, RVD rose to fame via Paul Heyman's ECW and later transitioned to WWE. In 2006, he defeated John Cena to become the WWE champion. Rob Van Dam was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2021, and his wife, wrestler Katie Forbes, accompanied him to the event.

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