Most wrestlers dream of becoming the WWE Champion and Kurt Angle achieved that feat in short time after getting called up to the WWE main roster. However, it sounds like Angle almost didn’t make it to the main roster.
During a recent episode of The Kurt Angle Show the Hall of Famer talked a little bit about his early days in developmental, and he admitted that he almost quit before his manager ended up talking him into staying.
“Starting out, you only trained 5 days [and] you trained all day long. You’re taking 300 bumps a day. It was brutal. I literally quit after the first day because I was like, ‘I can’t do this.’ I told my manager I can’t bump around like this [because] it’s like beating the sh*t out of yourself. He said to stay until the end of the day to see if I could make it and I did, but I was ready to walk out because it was like self-abuse. [And] the thing is, I was only doing this 5 days a month, then I would go home and wait for 25 days.”
Angle also noted that the WWE developmental system was nothing like it was today as he trained under Tom Prichard and Dory Funk Jr. alongside names like Edge, Christian, and Matt Bloom. Luckily for Kurt Angle everything worked out as he went on to become one of the top stars in WWE.
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