Kurt Angle On Why An AEW Appearance Is Off The Table

Kurt Angle returned to WWE a few years ago for a run which saw him get inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame, and work as the Raw General Manager for an extended period of time.

Unfortunately for Angle he didn’t get to wrestle nearly as much as he wanted to, and he lost to Baron Corbin during his retirement match at WrestleMania 35.

Kurt was released from WWE earlier this year, but he recently explained during an episode of the Wrestling Inc. Daily podcast why fans shouldn’t expect to see him pop up in AEW.

“Right now, I would say it’s off the table. I’m OK where I am. The thing is, when I came back to WWE, I wasn’t expecting what I got, and I was very grateful. I got the Hall of Fame. I wanted the Hall of Fame, but I didn’t want it first. I wanted it last, and I wanted to wrestle first. I took a year off from TNA. I was wrestling Rey Mysterio, Cody Rhodes, Alberto Del Rio, Joe Coffey from the UK, Zack Saber Jr. [and] a lot of great athletes, and I was ready.”

The former WWE Champion went on to say that he wanted to wrestle when he returned to WWE, but all of the time he took away from being in the ring while he was the GM wasn’t good for his body.

“When I was inducted into the Hall of Fame, that night Vince McMahon told me I was going to be the general manager, and I was like, ‘aw man, I wanted to wrestle. Now they’re going to have me inactive, and I was in active. I only probably wrestled three matches in the next year and a half. So being inactive and not bumping in the ring and not really training, my body got arthritic, and by the time I was wrestling for Vince, for WWE, I looked like an old man.”

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