“He Was Looking at me as a Liability”- Kurt Angle Reveals Shocking Details of his Final Years in WWE

In a recent interview, WWE Hall Of Famer Kurt Angle revealed some shocking information about his final years in WWE. For the most part of that time, Angle was the General Manager of RAW. However, he claims that this wasn’t what he originally had in mind.

“Well it didn’t go the way I wanted it to, you know, Vince McMahon had an idea for me. I think he was looking at me as a liability, you know, someone who was addicted to painkillers, someone who broke his neck 5 times. So I think Vince didn’t have the same idea I did,” says Angle.

After leaving WWE in 2006, Kurt Angle joined TNA and had a prosperous career there. He only returned to WWE a few years ago to spend his final years as a wrestler. Sadly, things didn’t quite go his way. 

“I wanted to get a title run when I came back. I wanted to have another title run and retire and Vince McMahon wanted me inducted in the Hall Of Fame,” explains Angle. “I told him well, ‘I’m not done with wrestling.’ He said ‘That’s ok’. And I said, ‘Well you know, eventually I would like to wrestle.’ He said, ‘We’ll get there’.” 

“So after the Hall Of Fame that night after I had the speech, Vince McMahon came to me and said, ‘You’re gonna be the GM of RAW starting tomorrow. And I was like, ‘Well, I still wanna wrestle’, and he said, ‘Well, we’ll get you there.’” 

Vince McMahon tried everything to prevent Kurt Angle from wrestling

Kurt Angle was held at bay until further notice, and when the time came, he couldn’t help but feel a little rusty. He couldn’t float like a butterfly anymore.

“So I think he did whatever he could to kind of push that off and when it was time for me to wrestle I was doing the GM job for a year and a half. I was inactive, not pumping, not wrestling, my body started getting arthritic, my neck tightened up, my knees- before I knew it when I got in the run I looked like an old man wrestling and I knew that” admits Angle. 

“So even though the company wanted me to continue to wrestle, I didn’t feel right about it for a couple of reasons. One was I wanted to come back and have the title run, so that one didn’t happen. But I also wanted to come back and have a good way to retire.”

Kurt Angle may feel a bit let down by the way he ended his prosperous and legendary career. However, he doesn’t seem to hold any regrets and won’t let these incidents get to him.

He still is one of the most respected names in Professional wrestling history. He is one of the elite to go out with their reputations intact.

Source: Instinct Culture By Denise Salcedo