Mr. Anderson Believes Randy Orton and John Cena Worked Together to Get Him Fired from WWE

Mr. Anderson is not backing away from his side of the story when it comes to his WWE exit.

While speaking on Tagging In with Chris Harris, Anderson addressed the long-running story that he was fired after allegedly dropping Randy Orton on his head during a match. Anderson pushed back on that version of events and said the footage does not support the claim. Anderson said fans can slow the video down and see that Orton’s neck never hit the mat.

“Yeah, definitely. You know, I was, uh, as everybody said, Rand, you know, I got fired for dumping Randy on his head. If you slow that video down, you can see that he his neck never comes into contact with the mat. Even like just the way that he bumped. He he bumped in a manner that uh he lined up perfectly with the camera. So, you can actually see that, you know, he he says I dumped him on his head, but you can see the shadow of his you can see his neck, you know, it’s completely flat bump from his shoulders to his ass was a complete straight line flat bump.”

Then Anderson gave his belief about what happened behind the scenes. He said he thinks Randy Orton and John Cena were both involved in getting him out of WWE.

“Um, I believe that Randy and John worked together. They decided to that day like, let’s f***** get him gone. And it and it worked. And that it is what it is.”*

However, Anderson did not put all the blame on Orton and Cena. He admitted that if his own name had not already been coming up in negative ways backstage, the situation may not have ended the way it did.

“And and I will say that um and I said this before, like that was the straw that broke the camel’s back, but had I been doing what I should have done on a day daily basis, that never would have occurred.”

Anderson said the issue was not just one spot in one match. In his view, there had already been enough negative attention on him that this incident became the final excuse.

“You know, like they could have gone to Vince and said all whatever they wanted to and Vince would have been like, you know, the fact that my name kept coming up in a negative light and I kept kind of f***** up in different ways and that’s all on me. So, like I said, that was the straw that broke camel’s back, but I the reason I got fired is because because of me. 100% because of me.”*

Chris Harris added that he remembered Anderson and Orton seeming friendly backstage during his own time around WWE. Anderson confirmed they had been close enough to travel together regularly.

“Yes. Like we we rode together for probably two years. Like every week, literally every week.”

That made the situation more painful for Anderson because he felt something changed while he was out injured for nine months.

“Um, so for that to happen and just the interactions that we had throughout that last day in LA, um, very very cold. It was like something something changed over the course of the nine months that I was out because I was out for with an injury for nine months and something happened in that period of time that caused that to you know.”

Anderson also made it clear that he felt Cena had a problem with him very early on.

“And I here’s the thing like John never liked me. John always had it. I felt like John patted out for me from almost day one and uh just never it it was weird because when I was on Smackdown, it was like I was welcomed in with open arms.”

He then compared the backstage feel of SmackDown to Raw, saying SmackDown’s top names tried to help new talent while Raw felt much more territorial.

“It was like two two mountain tops and in the on the one side you’ve got all these big stars, Undertaker, Rey Mysterio, Batista Uh um Eddie Guerrero, Kane, Booker T, Finley, all throwing like rope ladders over the side and hey, you know, extending their arm like come on up here. We’ll help you up here. and everybody trying to make everybody a star versus like over on the raw side it was like guys are dumping buckets of hot oil over the side and kicking boulders over and like f***** stay off my mountain. This is my mountain up here.”*

Anderson’s version of events paints a pretty tense picture of his final WWE stretch. He believes Orton and Cena played a part in the final push, but he also accepts that his own actions gave WWE enough reason to move on. It is rare to hear someone be that direct while also taking responsibility, but Anderson made it clear that both things can be true in his mind.

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