In this WrestleTalk News, Arn Anderson says he and Brock are ‘in limbo’ in AEW, the
real reason a former WWE star quit the company, Tempest’s review of NXT 2.0 and more.
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Arn Anderson has been a key feature of AEW programming since its launch, mainly managing
Cody but also being featured alongside FTR, as well as his son Brock Anderson.
Also his other son, Glock Anderson.
But with AEW going through a huge amount of growth in its roster size since its launch,
adding huge players like Bryan Danielson, Keith Lee, Adam Cole, Swerve Strickland, and
more, some others haven’t been featured as prominently on the card, as is the nature
of things.
However with Cody also leaving AEW, Arn Anderson has found himself a bit lost.
And now, speaking on AdFreeShows, Arn has clarified his AEW status by saying that both
he and his son Brock show up to TV every week, but that currently they are both “in limbo”.
Arn then spoke on what some perceive as stop/start pushes in AEW, with talent being cycled in
and out and being featured for a few weeks on Dynamite and Rampage before being used
more on Dark and Dark: Elevation again.
“If you remember correctly, [Brock’s] debut match was partners with Cody, they had
a really good match with QT (Marshall) and one of the other kids [Aaron Solo].
It’s been so far back that nobody remembers it.
He had his three or four weeks…In order to get a person over, you have to have about
eight, ten, or twelve straight weeks of good TV.
Now I’m invested in this guy…I do agree that talent doesn’t get exposed.
Dante Martin is a very special kid.
He had springs not like nobody else in the business.
A short time back, he had two, three, four really good weeks and now they disappear down
to Dark.
It’s a dilemma we have, we will figure it out.”
The dilemma he speaks of could be referring to how to book certain AEW talent in order
to get them over, or it could have been saying that he and Brock have some thinking to do
about their AEW future.
What do you think they should do?
Let us know in the comments below!
Someone else’s wrestling future that’s up in the air right now is Johnny Gargano,
who left NXT last year and has taken time away to be with his family as he welcomed
his first child Quill into the world.
Gargano has started to appear at wrestling conventions and the like, but his in-ring
return is unconfirmed right now.
Gargano’s departure from WWE was around the same time NXT had its multi-coloured re-design
into NXT 2.0, so many fans naturally assumed this was a factor in Gargano deciding to leave
the company, but according to Garagno himself on Renee Paquette’s Oral Sessions, this
is not the case.
“I know people said, like, ‘Oh, Johnny left because NXT changed.’
No, I always had it in my mind that I wasn’t leaving to go to any particular place…I
kind of just felt like I needed to go because I felt like if you watch a TV show, or if
you watch anything in general, if you see the same character, and obviously I changed
character, I turned heel, I did funny stuff, I did things like that here and there.
But if you see the same person on TV for five years, six years, it gets stale.”
That’s some good self-awareness from Gargano, though personally I could watch him do his
thing for another 17 years before he got boring to me.
He’s a good lad.
And now hot tag to Tempest for his review of last night’s go-home episode
of NXT 2.0
before
Stand & Deliver this weekend!