Ken Anderson appeared on the This is Awesome Wrestling Show podcast, hosted by Glenn Moore Steve Guy. Topics discussed include his recent “F**k TNA” remark, Bobby Roode and Eric Young leaving TNA, the differences between the WWE and TNA locker rooms, Hulk Hogan dropping the legdrop on Gawker, Triple H as WWE Champion and much more.
Here’s what he said about the “F**k TNA” comment and why it was taken out of context:
“It was taken completely out of context, for one. I was working a show in Scotland; it was an adult show. The crowd sorta reminds me of an ECW crowd. For a wrestling promotion called ICW. It’s huge in Scotland. And the crowd starting chanting, ‘F**k TNA’, at the top of their lungs. Five, six hundred people in the audience. And I was playing the role of a heel that night. A lot of times when I go out to the ring, I’ll get a good reaction from the crowd because they know my gimmick and they wanna sing along with it and they wanna do it. And so, I got that reaction when I went out there. And then they started chanting ‘F**k TNA’. So I just said, ‘Well, I don’t work for them anymore, so yeah, f**k TNA.’ At which point, they popped.”
After he made the remark, he then told the crowd, “But your opinion means squat to me, so f**k every each one of you too.” The video that we linked above didn’t include that last part, which he believes changes the overall message of what he was saying.
He also commented on the atmosphere in the WWE locker room, which he hasn’t been a part of since 2009.
“At WWE, I’ve seen guys walk around on eggshells, everybody is worried their going to lose their job tomorrow. You never know. Everybody is on edge. All the time. There’s sorta this jealous type of environment, that I think to some degree is encouraged. Because they want you to be competitive with each other. And at TNA, we are competitive, but it’s like you’re competitive against your own teammates, kind of. Everybody works together and helps each other.”
As for Bobby Roode and Eric Young, he likes both guys and can see them in WWE or New Japan Pro Wrestling.