WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle believes the company didn’t appreciate him following his return to the company in 2017.
After 10 years with TNA Wrestling, Kurt Angle made his return to WWE to be entered into the class of 2017 Hall of Fame during WrestleMania 33 weekend.
Following his induction, Angle became a regular on-screen character as Raw General Manager for the next two years until his eventual retirement at WrestleMania 35 in 2019.
Speaking with Sam Roberts on Notsam Wrestling, Kurt Angle said he believes WWE didn’t appreciate him and tried “to teach him a little lesson” when he returned. He said:
“I’m sure if I made a call I could make (another match) happen, but there’s no way I can do it unfortunately. But I would have loved to have been one of John Cena’s retirement matches. I’m the one that had his first match, and I wanted John to be my retirement match.
“I requested that to Vince. He said, ‘You’re gonna have to wait till next year because you have a program with Baron Corbin’. So I was like, ‘Okay but I don’t think I can go another year Vince’, he said, ‘Well, it is what it is’.
“I love Baron Corbin, but I just felt that my second time in WWE I wasn’t so much appreciated. I think it has a lot to do with me leaving the company high and dry in 2006 and going straight to TNA.
“I was supposed to go back to WWE in six months, Vince wanted me to take six months off and come back, so literally when I left his office and I quit, I called TNA and got a contract that day.
“So I didn’t wait a second, I knew what I wanted to do and where I wanted to go, and I think there was like, ‘Okay, well if he comes back, we’re gonna teach him a little lesson’. I understood.”
Kurt Angle recently stated he would be open to returning as the manager for Chad Gable and American Made.
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