While appearing on the A2theK Wrestling Show, Ken Anderson opened up about his release from WWE back in 2009.
Anderson had been set to get a big push by the company where he was supposed to win the Money in the Bank briefcase but was fired by Vince McMahon. Anderson would later claim that it was due to John Cena and Randy Orton complaining about him to management.
Anderson clarified that he can’t blame anyone but himself for getting fired by the company. He also got to clear the air with Orton a few years ago while visiting at a WWE Raw show.
“I did talk to him, but let me say this. Nobody got me fired. I got me fired. Because I was very bitter and very upset for a few years and that resentment was directed at the wrong place and it should have been directed back at me because had I been doing all the right things, I would have never been in a position where one person’s word could have any effect on my career.
I was in a position at that time where I had done enough things, and Vince had heard my name in a negative light enough that he just finally said, like, ‘I’m tired of hearing about it. We’re just gonna cut our losses.’ I would’ve fired me. We have talked and I think both of us are in very different places in our lives right now. I don’t call him but I did run into him when I went backstage at a Monday Night Raw like two years ago, three years ago now, in Minneapolis. [We] had like a very long, pretty cool discussion with him.”
Anderson also spoke about his favorite memory in TNA Wrestling.
“My whole run there, I really enjoyed my time right up to the end, right up to right before the end. I had some fantastic, killer matchups with some of my heroes. I got to work with Jeff Jarrett in a program. I got to work with Kurt Angle in a program that, as a result, I’ve got one of my favorite matches in, in my personal history that I’ve been a part of, the cage match that I had with Kurt at At Lockdown in 2009. The stuff with Sting and of course, like the stuff with Bubba Ray. Bully Ray. After our blow-off match, we did the casket match and it was over in Manchester. I want to say, and afterward I was a little emotional like, ‘We’re not going to get to work with each other anymore. This is. This is the end of the road for right now. You know, that’s sort of the way when you feel like you have a connection with somebody on a storytelling level. It’s sometimes hard to say, ‘All right, we’ve ridden this horse enough. Now it’s time to get off and try a different one.’”
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