Kurt Angle had an incredible run with WWE from 1999 to 2006, but when he was on his way out of the company his relationship with Vince McMahon started to deteriorate.
During a recent episode of the Kurt Angle Show the former WWE Champion was asked what his relationship was like with Vince McMahon in 2006, and he revealed that his own behavior became so erratic that at one point he was threatening to beat up the Chairman of the Board.
“Well up until 2006 we were pretty close but my behaviour became erratic. I started behaving out of control, sending Vince text messages threatening to beat him up. I mean, it was crazy. You know, I had the painkiller problem that nobody knew about. I was injured so much and I couldn’t take any time off because a lot of the other talent were injured, a lot of the top guys. So I was kinda there to keep the product intact and mentally I was losing it. I was texting Vince more and more. He wouldn’t respond so that would p*ss me off even more. After I joined ECW it got even worse.”
When asked why he would threaten to beat up Vince McMahon the Hall of Famer said that at the time Vince wasn’t getting back to him, but he later understood why.
“He wouldn’t get back to me. I understand why now. I wasn’t making any sense. When I went to a meeting with Vince when I decided to leave after ECW in 2006, he had a whole list of text messages, and I’m sitting reading them thinking ‘gosh, I don’t remember texting this.’ It was really graphic, ‘I’m gonna beat the sh*t out of you’ and some of the texts didn’t make sense. I was probably high on painkillers when I was sending them. It was just ridiculous. I was in awe looking at them thinking ‘holy crap, I don’t remember saying any of this stuff. It was just a bad situation.”
Angle ended up parting ways with WWE in 2006 and he joined TNA later that year. He went on to have a successful run with TNA before leaving the company in 2016, and he later returned to WWE in 2017 for a Hall of Fame induction and a run as Raw General Manager. Kurt Angle wrestled his farewell match at WrestleMania 35 where he was defeated by Baron Corbin.
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