Arn Anderson Admits Wrestlers Disappearing From AEW Is A Problem

All Elite Wrestling's Arn Anderson believes that wrestlers showing up on company television then quickly going missing is a dilemma that the promotion is yet to figure out.

Speaking on a recent episode of his podcast, The ARN Show, for AdFreeShows.com, the former Horseman said he agrees that this is an issue, citing his son, Brock, as an example (h/t WrestlingNews.co):-

“I agree 100%. My son being one of those, if you remember correctly, his debut match was being partnered with Cody. They had a really good match with QT and one of the other kids, but it’s been so far back, nobody remembers it. He had his three or four weeks.”

Brock, 25, wrestled his first televised AEW match on the 18 June 2021 episode of Dynamite, teaming with Cody Rhodes to face Aaron Solow and QT Marshall of The Factory. Only 3 of his 20 AEW matches since then have come on Dynamite or Rampage, with the rest playing out at Dark and Dark: Elevation tapings.

Continuing, Arn made it clear that he wasn't knocking AEW president and founder Tony Khan, whom he says has put together "a hell of a talent roster." The challenge is finding time for everybody - and giving emerging talents like Dante Martin the cumulative opportunities they need to get (and stay) over:-

“Now to his defense because people get sick of me singing Tony Khan’s praises, but his intention is, because now he’s assembled quite a hell of a talent roster, to try to get everybody exposed. If you get one week or two weeks, and then they move on, I get exactly what you’re saying. In order to get a person over, you have to have about eight or 10 or 12 straight weeks of good TV. Now I am invested in this guy. Tony knows what he wants out of the shows. We support him 100%. I do agree that talent doesn’t get exposed. Dante Martin is a very special kid. He got springs like nobody else in the business. Just a short time back he had two or three or four really, really good weeks, and then now they disappeared down to Dark. It’s a dilemma that we have. We will figure it out.”

Finally, Anderson acknowledged that bringing in huge names like Bryan Danielson and CM Punk inevitably results in other people being shuffled down the card. He is confident, however, that Khan and AEW will be able to figure the situation out:-

“But when you’re bringing in Daniel Bryan, you’re bringing in CM Punk, and no matter what you’ve done prior to that, that’s going to kind of push everybody else down a notch because those guys cost a heap of money to employ. When you bring them in, they’re going to take precedence over anything else you had going on. That’s the dilemma that we have. We will figure it out because Tony’s intentions are giving people who are avid wrestling fans and intelligent folks what they want.”

Anderson has been an AEW mainstay since December 2019, when he signed with the company four months after debuting at All Out, where he aided Cody Rhodes in his bout with Shawn Spears.