Olympic gold medalist and soon-to-be WWE Hall of Famer, Kurt Angle recently took part in an “Ask Me Anything” on Reddit where he didn’t discriminate or disappoint in regards to what subjects he was willing to take on. Fans are excited about the fact that there might be a chance to see another WWE run with Angle and he seems just as excited at the prospect as well.
One fan asked him about hitting rock bottom when he went into detail about his own experience with addiction and the thing that really hit home in his own life saying he needed to make a change.
“[For] me, the rock bottom was when my second wife Giovanna said to me, ‘Listen, I love you, but you have had 4 DUI’s already. I love you but I can’t stay with you. I can’t live like this. You pass out every night at 7 o’clock and you don’t spend any time with the kids.’ Then she said, ‘If you can’t turn this around, we’re leaving.’ It took the courage from her because she didn’t have to do that. She was living a pretty good life with me, but that wasn’t fulfilling to her. She wanted me. She wanted the Kurt Angle that she knew. So I decided to check into rehab. That’s where my rock bottom came.”
One fan questioned Angle about the rumor saying The Undertaker wanted to drop his famous WrestleMania streak to Kurt a decade ago and Angle confirmed this story’s validity.
“Undertaker did go to me in January of that year and said, ‘Listen, I think we should talk to Vince. I know you’re champion. I know they don’t want to go with me as champion, so I’m willing to lose if we have to. I never had that Wrestlemania match that I wanted and I know that I can have it with you.’ [The Undertaker] encouraged me to talk with Vince. It was never thought of, Vince never thought of it. As a matter of fact, Vince shot it down right away. But it was an idea Undertaker had. It wasn’t an idea I had. It wasn’t an idea Vince was thinking of doing. Vince McMahon didn’t want it and it was an idea that got shot down. That conversation was very quick, very brief.”
He said his favorite opponent was Shawn Michaels and he really put John Cena over as he spoke about Cena’s first match on WWE television, “About the match, I just wanted to teach John a lesson. I literally tried to get him tired in that match. If you ever watch it, it’s twelve minutes of non-stop movement. I made him hustle. I made him earn the respect that he deserves, and he knows it. But he didn’t get tired! He’s one of the few guys that kept up with me in that ring. I tested him and he passed with flying colors!”
He was asked about the time Hulk Hogan put him over by tapping to his ankle lock and Kurt told the story about how he perceived working with the Hulkster, ” Vince said, ‘Alright Terry, you’re going to tap out to Kurt tonight.’ Terry paused for about five seconds and he looked me in the eyes and he said, ‘Okay. Let’s do this.’ I was shocked! You know you hear some rumors about Hulk Hogan, that he has difficulty putting guys over. But he didn’t do that. So the whole rumors were thrown out the window for me. And whether they are true or not, I don’t believe them”
Angle concluded the subject of Hulk Hogan by really putting over the man behind the Hulkster persona as well as acknowledging the fact that Hogan is such an influential piece to the professional wrestling puzzle.
“I think Hogan has always been about the business, but also, Hogan is and was the business. So, I think, looking out for the business, he had to go over 98% of the time because it was always good for the business. I don’t think Terry ever had a thing about what was best for business. I just think he always did the right thing, it was just for almost all his matches, the best thing was for Hulk Hogan to win. So, I’ve never had any hard feelings about Hulk Hogan. I think that if anything, I respected him more that night for tapping out to me.”
