CW Anderson recalls that Vince Russo had the best match of the night at the 2004 TNA taping

CW Anderson remembers his appearance in TNA Wrestling.

In 2004, Anderson made his debut for the company by teaming with Chaz Taylor in a match against Shark Boy and D-Ray. Six years later, Anderson wrestled for the company again, this time at the Hardcore Justice pay-per-view in a match against Too Cold Scorpio.

While speaking with Fightful for a new interview, Anderson recalled Vince Russo telling him that he had the best match of the night when he appeared for the company in 2004.

“I worked on that first ever TNA match. I tagged with Tugboat’s kid. I tagged with him against Shark Boy and D-Ray. At the end of the night I’m sitting, I’m standing there and Vince Russo is on one side and Jeff Jarrett on the other side. Vince Russo looks at Jeff Jarrett and asks, “How does CW come off the road and have the best game of the night?” Jeff says, “Because he’s a damn good worker.” Nothing ever came of that, of course, because I had Jerry Lynn heard Dutch Mantell say, “I was too overweight and didn’t look like I was in shape.”

Anderson then talked about his match with Scorpio and how much he loved working with him.

“But the thing with Scorpio was that Scorpio kind of pushed me to work him and myself the same way. I had worked him over in favor of Francine not long ago, and Scorp told me that he and I had just chemistry in the ring.” Two other people, and that was Eddie Guerrero and Chris Benoit. Another compliment to beware of. So we competed against each other and Scorp and I have the same style, which is Japanese
Strong style where when we work together we are a little stiff towards each other but it’s safe. But I loved working with Scorpio, the chemistry between him was great. I only had this one match on YouTube where he blew me away with a shot, where he did a moonsault into the leg drop and his ass landed on my face and blew me away for seven minutes. It was brutal. Yes, I wasn’t breathing. Before that I had just gotten married and you see my wife at the time jumping into the ring and Corino jumping into the ring. You can hear him turn off the camera because I was still outside. I didn’t breathe for two or three minutes. This resulted in brain damage. But in wrestling, mistakes happen. This isn’t ballet. But I love this match with Scorpio.

Elsewhere in the interview, Anderson recalled Triple H and Kurt Angle eliciting a reaction during a Velocity match in 2004. Find out more here.

Fans can watch Fightful’s full interview with CW Anderson in the video linked above.