“That’s Way Too Tacky” – Kurt Angle Reveals ECW Almost Had an Alien Gimmick

On May 30, 2021, Kurt Angle spoke to his co-host, Conrad Thompson, on “The Kurt Angle Show“, about his time in ECW in 2006 when WWE revived the company. He also talked about the show being placed on the ‘SyFy’ network.

Kurt recalled how strange it was to have a wrestling show airing on a science fiction network. He even revealed that the company asked WWE to use science fiction characters, but Vince McMahon shot those ideas down. Kurt said,

“It was odd. We didn’t correlate the two, we couldn’t understand it. I know the SyFy channel is a quality T.V. station, a quality network, it just wasn’t the right fit. The crazy thing was the SyFy channel approached Vince saying they wanted two alien wrestling characters on the show and Vince said no immediately. He said we’re not doing that, that’s way too tacky.” (H/t Wrestle Inc. for the transcriptions)

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