Kurt Angle turned a lot of heads when he quickly made it to the top of the ladder in WWE, but the former WWE Champion spent many years working as one of the top stars in TNA.
The Hall of Famer ended up joining TNA in 2006, and during a recent episode of the Kurt Angle Show he explained what was going through his head when he decided to sign with the company.
“The reason I signed with TNA, and there’s nothing wrong with this, but when you’re in WWE, it’s a huge company. It’s bigger than you. There’s nothing you can do. You can have the greatest career of all time, you’re not going to make a bigger impression on the company than the company itself. TNA, it’s a smaller company and you’re the big name in the company. You’re carrying the company on your back, you’re building that company, and you’re making it into a WWE. You have a purpose that way. When you’re in WWE, you’re never bigger than the product. When you’re in TNA, you are bigger than the product and it’s carrying that product to another level. There’s a bigger purpose in it.
While talking about whether or not he felt he had something to prove Angle noted that he was only trying to prove something to himself, and he was out to help TNA grow.
“It was about me proving myself that I could be a formidable player and make a company grow bigger than it was. I think I did a good job of that, it wasn’t just me though. There were a lot of other wrestlers in that company. But I wanted to show that I had a purpose in my life and that purpose was TNA and nd I could make this company grow. It never became as big as WWE, but there were times where the ratings started getting fairly close. We were doing two million viewers a week, 2.1 million viewers a week, which was a big deal for TNA at the time. It made me feel very good as a representative of the company that I was one of the main reasons for it.”
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