Triple H is currently the Creative Control Officer of WWE, while Shawn Michaels oversees the direction and booking of NXT. However, at one time, even when they were not in charge of creative or the company’s overall booking, they still wielded significant power. Stone Cold Steve Austin apparently warned a young WWE star to leave the company because of them and John Cena, but he did not listen.
Stone Cold Steve Austin warned Ken Anderson, aka Mr. Kennedy, about Triple H, Shawn Michaels, and John Cena
On the Cafe de Rene podcast on December 19, Ken Anderson spoke about how Stone Cold Steve Austin got in touch with him after a match with Batista to offer him guidance:
“I checked my phone, and it was like, ‘Hey kid, Steve Austin here, I got your number from someone in the office. I saw your match with Batista, I liked the sh** out of it.’ He just went on to say, ‘I want to talk about some things. I got some ideas for you. I got some pointers, some little things that I saw.'”
Some years after this, Anderson said Stone Cold warned him that he had made the wrong people in WWE angry and mentioned that John Cena, Triple H, and Shawn Michaels all hated him. He said that was a bad combination.
“So we became friendly, and we would talk on a regular basis. Fast forward a couple years later, and he called me one day and was like, ‘Kid, get the f**k out of there. You got too much heat with the wrong people. Triple H hates your guts. Shawn Michaels hates your guts. John Cena hates your guts. That’s a bad combination, kid,'” Anderson said.
Anderson added that Austin wanted him to leave the company for a while. Stone Cold told him he could always come back, but because of the paychecks he was getting, it was too difficult for Anderson to leave.
“He was like, ‘Get the f**k out of there, go to Japan, go to TNA, get yourself over, do some stuff there. You can always come back.’ I just could not bring myself to pull that trigger. The paychecks were pretty good. Hindsight, I wish I would have listened to him,” Anderson said.
He admitted now that it might have been better had he left at the time.
