Mr. Ken Anderson joined me this past Wednesday on my “Wrestling Reality” podcast on TribLIVE Radio. He spoke about a bunch of topics on pro wrestling. Here’s some highlights:
On why he wanted to open this school and the cost:
[Minnesota] used to be a breeding ground and hot bed for pro wrestling. It’s just sort have died out in the last ten years and we want to bring that back. We are opening a wrestling school on November 1st and cover all aspects of training from the way your body looks, the way you talk and what you do in the ring. Our tuition in normally $3,000 which I think is reasonable for the information we’re giving and what we’re offering. Right now as people sign up before November 1st, it’s $1,000 and you get full access to the gym for a year, three sessions a week, 2 to 3 hours per session.
On how he came up with the Lambeau Leap finishing move and the first match in WWE he used it:
I started doing it on the indy’s. At first just on the canvas. Aries and I worked for Ian Rotten in like 2003 or 2004 maybe. Ian wanted me to have a finisher and I was trying to come up with something . I was doing the swanton at the time but someone else was already using it on the show. I had been talking about it for a while. Aries and I were messing around on the day and I did it. It was fine, it was safe. I didn’t do it again until I get to WWE. I was supposed to have a dark match before the show Velocity. It was like 5 minutes from the match and I was standing behind curtain, Dave Lagana walks up and says there’s been a change and this is no longer a dark match, this is televised. We have to come up with a finisher, you’re going over and stuck out his hand and said welcome aboard. Fit Finlay was our agent interesting enough and I said I do the Finlay roll from the second rope. I showed Funaki how I do it and he was a little nervous but willing to do it, we did it and like you said, it was a wow factor. I remember few weeks later JBL came up to me and said man that move from the second rope you looks awesome, but I’ll never take it.
Ken also talks about The Undertaker taking him under his wing, TNA being up for sale and more. Hear the full interview starting at the 41:25 mark of the podcast by CLICKING HERE.
You can also get more info on Ken’s new wrestling school by visiting theacademyprowrestling.com
