Kurt Angle was lucky enough to have a very long and successful career in the professional wrestling business, but like most things it started with a humble beginning. Angle stepped into a WWE ring for the first time in March of 1999 when he appeared on Sunday Night Heat in a segment with Tiger Ali Singh.
During the segment Singh offered Kurt Angle $5,000 dollars to blow his nose on the American flag, but Angle declined and instead blew his nose on the Indian flag. Recently the Hall of Famer discussed the segment on the Kurt Angle Show, and he admitted that he feels really bad about it.
“Yeah, blowing my nose on the Indian flag. Hey, it wasn’t my idea. But I understand. I mean, that is very disrespectful. But it’s something that WWE wrote. And I didn’t think about it beforehand, I didn’t have a problem with it. But once I caught heat for it. I was like, Man, I really messed up.
I mean, I feel really bad about that. There’s no reason to do that. I do understand that back then, it was a little safer to do that kind of stuff than it is now. But I wasn’t proud of myself for doing that. I should have known better.”
Kurt Angle also recently revealed that he was asked to make an appearance on WWE programming during the 2023 WWE Draft, but he had to decline because he was busy that day. There’s currently no word on when Angle could appear on WWE programming again.
