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Ken Anderson On Why He Wanted to Open His Wrestling School, Coming Up With Lambeau Leap

September 30, 2016 | Posted by Jeremy Thomas

– Ken Anderson spoke with TribLIVE Radio’s Wrestling Reality podcast about his new school with Shawn Daivari and more. Some highlights are below:

On why he wanted to open this school: “[Minnesota] used to be a breeding ground and hot bed for pro wrestling. It’s just sort have died out in the last ten years and we want to bring that back. We are opening a wrestling school on November 1st and cover all aspects of training from the way your body looks, the way you talk and what you do in the ring. Our tuition in normally $3,000 which I think is reasonable for the information we’re giving and what we’re offering. Right now as people sign up before November 1st, it’s $1,000 and you get full access to the gym for a year, three sessions a week, 2 to 3 hours per session.”

On how he came up with the Lambeau Leap finishing move: “I started doing it on the indy’s. At first just on the canvas. Aries and I worked for Ian Rotten in like 2003 or 2004 maybe. Ian wanted me to have a finisher and I was trying to come up with something . I was doing the swanton at the time but someone else was already using it on the show. I had been talking about it for a while. Aries and I were messing around on the day and I did it. It was fine, it was safe. I didn’t do it again until I get to WWE. I was supposed to have a dark match before the show Velocity. It was like 5 minutes from the match and I was standing behind curtain, Dave Lagana walks up and says there’s been a change and this is no longer a dark match, this is televised. We have to come up with a finisher, you’re going over and stuck out his hand and said welcome aboard. Fit Finlay was our agent interesting enough and I said I do the Finlay roll from the second rope. I showed Funaki how I do it and he was a little nervous but willing to do it, we did it and like you said, it was a wow factor. I remember few weeks later JBL came up to me and said man that move from the second rope you looks awesome, but I’ll never take it.”

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