WWE Corridor Of Famer Arn Anderson answered some fan questions on his newest “ARN” podcast. Arn was requested who backstage in WCW, WWE, and AEW had been the blokes who requested him probably the most questions and wished to be taught from his experience:

“Randy Orton was very receptive. Cena was, up to a degree. Dave Bautista was very receptive. Roman Reigns, home reveals, he had some matches with Braun Strowman that had been simply spectacular. He made Braun Strowman a large. I actually loved working with him on that stuff. Dolph Ziggler had nice concepts and listened. Bobby Roode had an excellent thoughts for the enterprise.”

Arn Anderson mentioned he hated his job as producer in WWE:

“If you need the reality, I hated that job. I hated being answerable for matches that I had no energy or authority. I used to be chargeable for the top end result. If the story that was advised or the physicality was not good, the end wasn’t good, no matter, Vince chewed my ass out.”

“The issue with that was in case you’re going to present me full reign and let me do what I need to, not what’s written and attempt to take the inventive and put it into match phrases and make it make sense, it’s not truthful to have all of the duty for a phase and no authority to do what you already know is correct, to having to do what they need you to do.”

“I didn’t take pleasure in that job. I actually didn’t take pleasure in it that a lot in WCW as a result of I imply, you get to the world, and you’ve got two guys that basically don’t need to put one another over.

“I’m on the street simply lining the present up. That’s imagined to be all I’m doing, carrying the phrase, ‘Hey, they want so and so to go over.’ Whenever you don’t have the authority that once they go, ‘I’m not feeling that.’

“Now it’s important to go, ‘Properly, what do you suppose?’ versus ‘No, I feel I’m feeling it and that is what we have to do.’ It’s a straw boss place. You’re a scapegoat for one thing they don’t like. It’s mechanically your fault.”