Ex-WWE Champion Very Open To AEW Switch
A former WWE star would be open to making the jump to AEW and enjoy a more adult-oriented product.
It has been well over sixteen years since WWE fans saw the microphone descend from the heavens and be introduced to the bombastic Mr Kennedy. During his time in the company, Kennedy captured the US Title and seemed destined for bigger and better things, but run-ins with stars such as John Cena and Randy Orton put paid to that.
A successful spell in TNA followed, where, now known as Mr Anderson, he captured the TNA World Championship on two occasions.
Mr Kennedy Open To AEW Run
Speaking to 99.9 Punk World Radio FM, Ken Anderson revealed that he’d definitely be open to having a run in AEW and says he thinks his career is missing a more adult-oriented spell:
Yes absolutely. I’m in the business to, I wanna tell stories, I wanna entertain people. I still have gas in the tank and I feel like there is some opportunities there with some people. So yeah that’s definitely something I would totally entertain.
The one thing I will say, and it took me until recently to put my finger on it. It was something I always felt was missing from my career with WWE during the Ruthless Aggression Era and that was, I broke into wrestling because of the Attitude Era stuff and I have always gravitated towards edgy stuff, and not just edgy for the sake of edgy, but more adult centered.
When I first got to WWE we couldn’t even say ‘darn’ or ‘dang it’, it was kind of hamstringing. As you saw when I got to TNA I was able to be a little edgier. I really wish those training wheels had been taken off me in WWE. So with AEW having the free reign that they do, it would be a good fit I think.
I like Jon Moxley’s stuff, I like that edgy, that realism, something like that, minus the death match stuff, I’m not particularly looking to do any of that stuff, but sort of no bullsh*t, smash mouth wrestling style.
Anderson also added that he’d like to work with some of the talent that he has helped train over the years, including Top Flight and Julia Hart who have made their home in AEW:
I would really like to work with my students Darius and Dante Martin, Darius is my first graduate, Dante is my fifteenth or sixteenth graduate. Julia Hart is somebody who would have graduated had the pandemic not occurred and she ended up moving to Atlanta on her own and started to train. I’d love to work with those people, so that’s another sort of avenue that I’d love to entertain.