Hours after it became public knowledge that Brian Kendrick was no longer contracted to WWE, AEW would announce he was set to wrestle Jon Moxley on that week’s Dynamite. Yet, his debut was canceled at the last minute after conspiracy theory videos from 2011 and 2013 featuring him making insensitive comments about the Holocaust and Sandy Hook resurfaced. A brief Twitter apology would follow, and Kendrick would disappear from the public eye. However, he recently returned to apologize on the Duke Loves Rasslin podcast, stressing that what he expressed at the time was not his current beliefs and said for attention.
Now, his former WWE tag partner Paul London has discussed his friendship with Kendrick while appearing on Rene Dupree’s Cafe de Rene podcast, revealing that they’re no longer friends due to Kendrick’s unpredictable and inappropriate behavior. He would also speculate that Kendrick could have CTE and told a story about Kendrick being thrown out of someone’s house for similar comments to those he made in the conspiracy videos mentioned above.
He leaves me this voicemail, and he’s like, “Hey buddy, like you know, I don’t really know how to think of this, but people are telling me that you’re back in California, and I don’t know why I’m like the last person to hear about this, but like I don’t know like if that’s what you call friends or not but like that’s not that’s bullsh*t.” You know I’m sitting here thinking like, “Is he out of his f*cking mind?” He’s like the first person I told. He was in the matches with me when I first got there.
That was a real breaking point even though it doesn’t seem like a major thing, but it was kind of like I don’t know him as well as I thought I did, and he doesn’t know me as well as he thinks he does but I never in my life have ever been a conspiracy theorist or certainly never you know bought into any of the any of that kind of stuff.
We have a very good friend of mine in Amersterdam who basically kicked him out of his place because he was spouting off some of this sh*t. And my friend has relatives who were involved in this, extremely disrespectful. Basically tossed him out.
Paul LondonKendrick and London both trained at Shawn Michaels’ Texas Wrestling Academy, under the guidance of Rudy Boy Gonzalez, before making names for themselves in Ring of Honor. They would go on to team in WWE initially in 2003 until Kendrick left the company in 2004. Then when Kendrick returned in mid-2005, the duo would reunite and achieve significant tag team success feuding with teams like MNM and Deuce ‘n Domino. Nevertheless, despite being a popular pairing, WWE would separate them in June 2008 as part of the draft. They would, though, team again on the indies between 2010 and 2015, but as revealed by London during the interview, are no longer in contact.
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