Former WWE Superstar Ken Anderson wasn’t too heartbroken when he lost the United States Championship, believing the title was just a ‘prop.’
Anderson, as Mr. Kennedy, won the title on the August 29, 2006 episode of SmackDown, and would hold the title for 42 days before dropping the gold on the October 10, 2006 edition of WWE SmackDown.
Speaking about his brief title reign on “The A2theK Wrestling Show,” Anderson explained how he had no issue with his reign being so short. He said,
“At the end of the day, the titles are just props, they are props used to tell stories or further storylines and I have always felt that way. So, it was cool to me, but I wasn’t sleeping with the title, I don’t have any pictures of me with the title on my mantel or anything like that.”
Anderson pointed out that not long after his U.S. title reign, he was in a feud with The Undertaker, which seemingly played a decision in his reign ending. He said,
“Taker actually went to Vince and told him that he wanted to work a program with me, and they always felt that the United States Championship was beneath ‘Taker. So, it was something that wouldn’t further our storyline, so it was not necessary for me to have it.”
