Brock Anderson made his AEW debut on the June 18, 2021 episode of AEW Dynamite, teaming with Cody Rhodes to defeat The Factory (Aaron Solow & QT Marshall).
Brock is the son of Arn Anderson, who was aligned with Cody as a member of his Nightmare Factory. Brock would consistently have matches on AEW Dark before main eventing the August 25, 2021 episode of AEW Dynamite against Malakai Black.
Speaking on Foundation Radio, Arn reflected on Brock's debut and early run in AEW.
“Thanks to Tony Khan for giving him his start and I appreciate it. At the time, I thought it's too soon. He hasn't had enough experience off television and the smaller venues. Just wrestling school where he was trained. I felt like he needed more of that. But Tony was the boss. He said, ‘Well, let's debut him tonight.’ That happened just like that one afternoon. We had no knowledge of it. Cody (Rhodes) comes to me, he says, ‘Tony wants to talk to you. You got a minute?’ (Tony) goes, ‘Want to debut Brock tonight?’ Well, what do you say? No? I mean, are you kidding me? We already owe him for providing an alternative in the wrestling industry. What I'm going to say, no to the guy? I never told Brock; ‘I don't want you in the business.’ I never told Brock, ‘I want you in the business.’ He came up to me when he was in high school and he said, ‘Dad, what would you think about me wrestling?’ I said, ‘Why are you bringing that up now? You're in high school.’ He said, ‘I don't know. I've just been watching.’ So he had been in his room watching some stuff on his own, making his own decisions about what he liked and what he didn't like and what he thought was good," he said.
Brock was largely used on AEW Dark until he departed the company in October 2023.
Brock is now part of MLW and teaming with CW Anderson.
Elsewhere during the interview, Arn commented on a potential future in WWE. You can find his full comments by clicking here.
