On Something to Wrestle with Bruce Prichard on the MLW Radio Network, they recently covered all things Kurt Angle. The topic of conversation took a fascinating turn as Bruce went into detail about two different occasions when Angle was involved in a legit fight backstage.
The rumor and innuendo is that there was a shoot match between Kurt Angle and Brock Lesnar one day in the ring one day before the doors even opened for the crowd, but the only people in attendance were the “boys” and the ring crew.
Before a WWE event takes place, once the ring crew gets the ring secured the wrestlers can come down to the squared circle hours beforehand in their workout gear and go over some spots in their match. Rumor is that during one of these occurrences, Brock and Angle allegedly started mouthing off to one another about who could do what to each other in a legit fight and things got heated, with the two men eventually coming to blows.
Bruce says that the legit face-off was due to weeks of the boys backstage stirring the pot. Bruce said that wrestlers would run to Brock and Kurt to tell them that the other man had said he could beat him legit in a fight as a rib.
Prichard says that Kurt and Brock didn’t say anything to each other about it until the two of them had their shoot fight. He said that the two didn’t have an argument in the ring, instead, they simply agreed to legit fight due to the things they had been told that were said to the both of them by their peers.
Bruce says that the fight lasted about 8 seconds before Vince McMahon broke it up.
Bruce says that Kurt Angle and Eddie Guerrero also got into a legit fight backstage, although he says it was a “short skirmish.” Prichard explains that Eddie got heated with Kurt because of something that had happened in the ring earlier (probably during one of those spot rehearsals that he referenced before).
Bruce says that if Kurt wants to do something with you, he’s going to do it. Eddie was mad because Kurt wasn’t listening to him during one of their booking sessions and attacked Kurt by attempting a double leg take-down on the Olympian.
Kurt immediately countered Eddie’s move with a front face lock and held it tightly on Latino Heat.
The two were quickly separated and Bruce says that the funniest thing about it came afterward when JBL reminded Eddie that Angle is an Olympic gold medalist to which Eddie replied: “I know, I’m just so stupid.”
Bruce’s spot on impression of Eddie’s answer is worth listening to the entire three-hour podcast.
