Ken Anderson On Possibly Working With AEW: ‘I Still Have Gas In The Tank And I Feel Like There Is Some Opportunities There With Some People’
Ken Anderson wouldn’t say no to an AEW opportunity if it ever pops up in the future.
Anderson was one of the highly anticipated names in WWE in the late 2000s. Many saw him as a future World Champion in the WWE, but numerous injuries and disputes with top stars backstage ultimately led to his release.
Speaking on Elite Wrestle Talk on 99.9 Punk World Radio FM, the wrestler talked about the possibility of joining AEW.
“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.”
Anderson believes that his WWE character needed to be more “edgy” and that he didn’t really have a lot of freedom there. AEW gives more control to talents over their characters, and for this reason, Anderson says they’d be a great fit for each other:
“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.”
Anderson likes Jon Moxley’s work in AEW. He recently shared his thoughts on the drowning spot during Moxley vs Allin’s I Quit match, and said, “That’s f***ing good TV.” Anderson doesn’t want to do the same things as Moxley, but he wants to do more hard-hitting style wrestling.
“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 bullshit, smash mouth wrestling style.”
Anderson also wants to work with his students, Darius and Dante, 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.”
Mr. Anderson (Mr. Kennedy) has said he would 'absolutely' be open to working with AEW, saying he likes Jon Moxley's stuff and would love to work with his students:
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— WrestleTalk (@WrestleTalk_TV) November 10, 2025
Fans can check out the full interview on YouTube below:
Elsewhere in the same interview, Anderson also talked about working with Umaga just days before his passing, and JBL’s heelish antics that got him a substantial amount of heat from the fans.
