Ken Anderson recently spoke to Chris Van Vliet of WSVN-TV about his run in WWE and more. You can check out the interview above and read a few highlights below.
What it was that got him fired from WWE:
“I got in trouble. I got in trouble with a bunch of other people. And it is what it is. I didn’t necessarily agree with it at the time and I don’t necessarily agree with it now but I take ownership for it. I did it.”
The nixed plan for him to win the WWE World Heavyweight Championship:
“There was a situation where I had the Money in the Bank briefcase at WrestleMania. Got called into the office and was told ‘we’re putting the title on you next week, you’re going to cash in next week against The Undertaker’… Stephanie McMahon called me and told me ‘Ken, you tore your triceps, we’re sending Vince’s jet to pick you up. You’re going to be out for 7 to 8 months. You’re going to have to have this surgically repaired’…. Edge called me a chicken on Monday Night Raw, I put up my briefcase that I had one year to cash in and Edge went on to do what I was going to do. The next day I went down to see Dr. James Andrews and he said that’s not a tear, you didn’t tear your triceps. Sure enough, it was just a large hematoma. It was a bruise. It was like some blood vessels popped in my triceps and just opened up. I was out for maybe a month.”
Why he started to hate the wrestling business:
“I was navigating a sort of treacherous mine field. I had just lost my dream job. I worked for WWE for four and a half years, spent six years trying to get there. Through some personal missteps, I mean I take 90% of the blame, 95% of the blame, there’s some other things that always play into that. That was just disheartening and I was just tired and exhausted. The WWE schedule is a tough one.”
What it’s like to work in TNA:
“Tons of creative control. It’s just a really laid back atmosphere. Everybody in the locker room gets along. There is no feelings of walking on eggshells. Sometimes I think in the WWE that feeling of the eggshells that everybody talks about is sort of made up in their own heads. And you hear enough people say that and then you think I better watch everything that I do.”
