Arn Anderson Gone From WWE?

[Jack-Hammer]

There are several reports out stating that Arn Anderson and WWE have parted ways.

There aren't any details as of right now but it's extremely odd given that they'll be having a segment on Raw this Monday celebrating Ric Flair's 70th birthday. Anderson's worked as a road agent since 2001 and has appeared every once in a blue moon on WWE TV in some sort of backstage segment. There's speculation that this came about, in some way, due to the recent influx of road agents like Chris Parks, AKA Abyss, Gregory Helms and Daivari.

If true and if Anderson was just suddenly let go by WWE, then this is definitely a dick move. Anderson's obviously been loyal and has a lot of connections within the company so maybe, if he truly is gone, then he asked to be released or it was some sort of mutual thing.

[Y 2 Jake]

Hopefully he's done something sleazy and we can have a scandal.

[mrluck_07]

Reportedly it was due to WWE wanting to move in a more youthful direction.

[smarkmouth]

Reportedly it was due to WWE wanting to move in a more youthful direction.

Considering they just hired Bruce Pritchard I'm going to go ahead and discredit these rumours.

[mrluck_07]

Considering they just hired Bruce Pritchard I'm going to go ahead and discredit these rumours.

Prichard was hired for Creative, not agent.

[smarkmouth]

True, but I stand by my hypothesis.

[Jack-Hammer]

The latest word going about is that it stems from some issues between Double A and Vince McMahon, at least according to Meltzer. The two of them have been butting heads for a while now over various things with tensions building including, allegedly, Anderson often supporting talent when they criticize a poor creative decision. The report further alleges that something also went down recently at a house show that Vince didn't like and it was the final straw and, apparently, Anderson isn't too broken up about being let go.

Anderson's really well liked by a lot of people in WWE including Triple H, Cena, Taker and numerous others who've worked with WWE over the years so aside from the shock, it's also not a popular decision.

[FunKay]

He'll be back within a year, probably in NXT in some capacity (trainer, producer, maybe even as a GM figure if Regal needs or wants to step away)

[Slyfox696]

It's professional wrestling. If they both want to work together again somewhere down the line, it'll happen.

[Stingray11214]

If that is the truth about VKM and AA butting heads, I would not be surprised if AEW picks him up as an agent. They already have Billy Gunn, so AA would be a nice addition.

[BestSportsEntertainer]

Seems legit

[Jack-Hammer]

The latest information coming out earlier today is that Alicia Fox showed up to the house show in questioned intoxicated and Arn Anderson allowed her match to go on. Some of the other issues have already been mentioned, such as Anderson taking the side of talent sometimes whenever a poor decision was made by Vince. There hasn't been any news on what, if any, punishment Alicia Fox faces.

Vince taking issue with Anderson simply not towing the company line seems perfectly in line with who Vince is, at least based on what we've heard and read over many years. It's another reason WWE has some problems that don't seem to be improving as Vince prefers to be the unchallenged master of his own little corner of the universe. With that being said, I have to say that I have to agree with Vince losing it over this as it was a pretty dumb decision in Anderson's part. Fox may not have been falling down drunk or anything, but wrestling a match with somebody who's abilities are impaired due to being drunk adds more risk to an already risky situation; I've been to a few indie shows in the past, really small companies, in which some of the talent have performed while drunk and one of the more memorable instances involved an intoxicated wrestler hitting a fan in the audience, a young girl, with a steel chair. He was being heckled, had a short fuse when drunk and just blasted the girl. So while nothing so remotely extreme happened in this case and the match seems to have gone off without a hitch, I can understand and agree with Vince being pissed off.

[Yaz]

If you agree with the decision why go into all the extra about how Vince and WWE are bad?

[EnviousDominous]

Yes, he is.

[smarkmouth]

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