Mr. Kennedy Opens Up About WWE Exit, Missed World Title Run, and Desire to Return – Former WWE Superstar Mr. Kennedy has undergone a major shift in perspective about his time with WWE and the possibility of returning to the company. In a candid interview on Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Kennedy admitted that, for years following his WWE release, he harbored resentment and had no interest in ever coming back.
“When I was at TNA, I was like, I’ll never go back there. I’ll never work for them again,” Kennedy recalled.
That stance, however, has changed. “Now it’s changed. I would definitely [go back] now,” he said. Kennedy admitted that his earlier attitude was clouded by bitterness. “Instead of looking at myself, I was looking at this person did this, and that person did that, and they screwed me… then at some point I realized I played a hand, a huge hand, in all that.”
He reflected on a key moment when WWE Chairman Vince McMahon discussed backstage complaints from other talents who refused to work with him. “Had I been doing all the right things up until that point, that conversation would have gone differently… There was a lot of negativity around things that I was doing, my attitude…”
Kennedy also shared the behind-the-scenes details of how he was originally set to win a world title using the Money in the Bank contract. According to him, the plan was for him to cash in on The Undertaker after a grueling cage match. “Vince [McMahon] and Stephanie laid out the scenario… I was going to come out and pick the bones, cash in the briefcase, cover him, 1 2 3.”
However, a sudden tricep injury at a house show threw everything off course. “Batista gives me a little clothesline… I felt something pop,” Kennedy recalled. Believing the injury was serious, WWE had Edge defeat him for the briefcase and take his spot in the planned title scenario.
The twist? The injury wasn’t what they thought. “I go down to Birmingham, Alabama… Dr. Andrews just feeling my arm, and he goes, ‘That’s not a tear.’ … It was just a large hematoma.” MVP later summed it up for Kennedy: “You were a misdiagnosis away from becoming World Champion.”
Now older and with a different mindset, Mr. Kennedy says he’s open to the idea of a WWE return — a stark contrast to his previous feelings.
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Mr. Kennedy Opens Up About WWE Exit, Missed World Title Run, and Desire to Return
