Remember when Brock Anderson was in AEW?
Don’t feel bad if you can’t recall one moment as his stint within the promotion was rather lackluster. The second generation star was in All Elite Wrestling for two years and his debut was alongside Cody Rhodes. Him and the American Nightmare beat Q.T. Marshall and Aron Solo in a tag team match. But Brock’s time in AEW was mainly spent working Dark and Dark: Elevation matches.
It certainly didn’t help when Cody left AEW, though there’s no word on whether the Undisputed Champion leaving his former employer was the reason that Brock was mainly kept off of Dynamite.
Nevertheless, Brock left the company in 2023.
It was believed that AEW simply didn’t renew Anderson’s contract, but it appears that Brock was the one who turned down an AEW offer. Brock Anderson revealed this news during a virtual signing with K & S WrestleFest, and it came down to him feeling that his career was stuck on auto pilot in AEW.
"About two years in, probably. Hindsight’s 20/20. It was a brand-new company. They’d only done a handful of TVs before COVID. Then they went into COVID. So in one sense, it was the best place for me to be because it wasn’t like I could be out on the indies, they weren’t running. So at least I was there. When I was there, Cody was there. We were at Jacksonville, at Daly’s Place. During the TV days, they would have all the young guys out there, and some of the boys [would be] watching, and they’d be like, ‘That was good, this was bad.’ In that respect, it was good.
Like I said, it was a newish company and we were in the middle of a global pandemic. We didn’t know if we were going to develop a training center or any of that, it was early. You’re just like, okay, we’ll keep doing this and see what happens, [we’ll] see how they bring us along. Once we got out of the pandemic, we were rocking and rolling, it was just TVs, and that school never came. After doing those five-minute Universal matches, you can’t really get better doing that. It’s too short of a time, you don’t learn how to wrestle. After about a year and a half, I was like this is…it’s great, I loved everybody there, I appreciate the opportunity, 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. They sent me another, they wanted to redo the current deal I was on, but it was not enough, so I was like maybe we just don’t do this and we go our separate ways. I think it was the best decision I’ve made. If I just stayed there and worked the five, six times a year that I was guaranteed, I would never have the mentor I have sitting to my left [CW Anderson] and all the knowledge I’ve soaked up in that short amount of time."
Brock is currently working down in MLW with his cousin CW Anderson. These two formed a faction with Bobby Fish and Brett Ryan Gosselin known as the Rogue Horsemen.