Anderson was looking to go a different route.
From 2021-2023, Brock Anderson was a part of All Elite Wrestling alongside his father, Arn Anderson. Brock wrapped up with the company in the fall of 2023 and Arn departed in May 2024.
Looking back at his run, Brock shared with K & S WrestleFest that AEW was looking to renew his contract, but he felt that was not the route he needed to take in order for his career to progress the way he saw fit.
Anderson added that the deal was ‘not enough.’ With hindsight in play, he feels it was the best decision he could have made. Brock shared that he was only guaranteed to wrestle five to six times per year at AEW.
About two years in probably (is when I thought I should not be on the career path I was while at AEW). Hindsight’s 20/20. It was like a brand new company. They’d only done a handful of TVs before COVID, and then they went into COVID. So, in one sense, it was the best place for me to be because it’s not like I could be out on the indies. They weren’t running. So, at least I was there and when I was there, Cody (Rhodes) was there and we were in Jacksonville at the Daily’s Place right next to the Jaguars stadium. During the day, like, TV days, they would have all the young guys out there and we would roll around and… some of the boys watching and they’re like, ‘Hey, that was good. This was bad.’ So in that respect, it was good, and like I said, it was a newish company and we’re in the middle of a global pandemic. We didn’t know if we were gonna develop a training center or any of that because it’s early so you’re just like, alright, we’re just gonna keep doing this and see what happens and surely, God, maybe getting a training center or see how they do — bring us along, and then, once we got out of the pandemic, we were rocking and rolling, hitting towns every week and it was just TVs, and that school never came. So, after just doing those five-minute Universal (Orlando) matches, you can’t really get better doing that. It’s too short of a time. You don’t learn how to wrestle. So, after about a year and a half — it’s great, I love everybody there, I appreciate the opportunity they gave me; Tony (Khan) and everybody. It’s just, where I was, I needed to be somewhere where I could actually get repetitions and learn the business. So, they sent me another — they wanted to redo the current deal I was on. It was not enough so I was like, ‘Maybe we just don’t do this and maybe we just go our separate ways,’ and I think it was the best decision I made, because if I just stay there and worked the five, six times a year that I was guaranteed, I would never have the mentor I got sitting to my left (C.W. Anderson), and all the knowledge I’ve soaked up in that short amount of time.
The 27-year-old Anderson is continuing to work independent dates in addition to regularly competing for Major League Wrestling. He is part of a tag team in the organization with C.W. Anderson. The duo compete at indie shows together as well.
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