Royal Ramblings recently released part 2 of their interview with Kurt Angle which you can read HERE. You can check out some highlights below:
Might we see you in the WWE Hall of Fame?
I don’t know. You never know what they’re thinking. It would be nice. Would it kill me if I wasn’t? No. I know who I am and I know what I was and I know the impact I made on wrestling. I don’t need a WWE Hall of Fame to tell me what that is. It’s not that important to me. What’s important to me is I’m in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame for Olympic wrestling and that’s my legacy. But it’s always nice to be recognised as a Hall of Famer. TNA Hall of Fame was great. WWE Hall of Fame would be great but if they decide not to, its not going to kill me. That’s their option. I did leave them in 2006 and went to TNA and I don’t know if that has any bearing but I’ve been happy with my career. I can tell you nobody made as much noise as I did, the six years I spent in WWE. Nobody did that in that short a period of time like I did. That legacy will be set in stone forever. I will tell you I had a better career in TNA than in WWE and that’s scary. Im very grateful for that and at the same time it kind of sucks because the hardcore WWE fans that only watch that, won’t see my best matches. They think they saw my best matches in WWE but they haven’t seen TNA. I’m hoping more of them will turn on to it.
You were briefly in ECW, are you on an even keel with Paul Heyman?
I love Paul! He made some crazy-ass decisions but I love him! I enjoyed working with Paul when I did ECW in WWE. That was my favourite part of it. But at the same time, that’s part of the reason I left WWE, was when they decided to put me in ECW. It was like, really? You’re going to take your best guy and put him in ECW. And it wasn’t that I didn’t want the test of being in a smaller company in front of smaller crowds but that’s kind of hard to swallow when you’re in front of sell-out crowds all the time. It just kind of felt like a demotion to me and I didn’t like that. I know that Vince was taking a chance with it. He wanted his workhorse in there but the hard part was, where do I go after RVD and Sandman. Well, sorry, Sandman’s not really much of a wrestler. It’s more like wrestling a kendo stick! I had to deal with RVD first though, then they had Sabu, who I loved working with. Then after that it was Sandman and Balls Mahoney. It was like “Oh my gosh! Are you serious Vince? What am I going to do with this?” So it was frustrating and that was kind of the reason that things died down with me in WWE – part of it but not all of it.
