Mr. Kennedy Reveals Steve Austin Told Him to Leave WWE Long Before His Release

Mr. Kennedy has now revealed that “Stone Cold” Steve Austin told him to leave WWE long before he was eventually released.

While speaking on his Mic Check podcast, Mr. Kennedy revealed that Steve Austin had reached out to him about a year or a year and a half before he was released by WWE. Austin strongly advised him to leave, telling him to get out of his contract and go to TNA or Japan.

Austin warned Kennedy that there were people in WWE who didn’t like him and made it clear that staying could hurt his career. Austin encouraged him to take control of his future and build his name elsewhere, on his own terms.

“I remember like Steve Austin reached out to me probably a year or a year and a half earlier and said, ‘Kid, get the f*** out of there.’ He’s like, ‘Go to TNA. Get out of your deal. Whatever. Go to TNA. Go to Japan.’

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And I was like, ‘What do you mean?’ And he was like, ‘You got some people there that don’t like you.’ He laid it out—’Those people right there, you’ve got a problem. You need to get away. Get yourself over. Do your own thing so that it’s on your terms.'”

At the time, Kennedy understood the advice but struggled with the idea of leaving because the money he was making was hard to walk away from. So he decided to stay, even though his mindset didn’t improve.

Eventually, that led to him getting fired, something that happened on the company’s terms and not his. After his release, Kenny was left questioning what to do next, unsure about where his career would go from there.

“And I was like, ‘Okay, that’s right.’ But I was thinking, this is a great payday—how do I walk away from this kind of money?

So I didn’t. I just kind of hung on, but my attitude didn’t get better. And eventually, I get fired—and it’s not on my terms. So now it’s like, what the f*** am I going to do?”

Mr. Kennedy eventually went to TNA Wrestling in 2010 before his release in 2016. He also addressed rumors surrounding John Cena and Randy Orton’s alleged involvement in his WWE release. Regardless, Kennedy made it clear he is open to making his WWE return in the future, so we’ll have to see whether that will happen in the end.

Do you think Mr. Kennedy made the right choice staying in WWE at the time? Would you like to see him return to the company today? Sound off in the comments.

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