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Kurt Angle was one of the top stars of WWE during his first run in the promotion. He was introduced to the WWE Universe back in 1999, and soon after joining the promotion, he started to be promoted as a top star. In only one year, he won the World Championship along with other successes.
When the Ruthless Aggression Era started, once again, WWE promoted him as one of the top stars, and he also main evented his first WrestleMania, which was WrestleMania XIX. But in 2006, he became frustrated with the way he was treated in the promotion and decided to leave WWE for TNA Wrestling. After spending nearly a decade in TNA, he finally returned to WWE.
Kurt Angle shared criticism for Vince McMahon over his second WWE run
He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2017 and also started working regularly in the promotion. But this time, he was treated terribly, and he had been given one of the worst retirement treatments ever. Recently, he spoke with the Undertaker on the “Six Feet Under” podcast, where he expressed his frustration with Vince McMahon for his lackluster second run. He said;
Kurt Angle returned to WWE in 2017
“The thing is, when I came back to WWE, after I left for 11 years, when I came back, I was wrestling really good, but Vince had a different idea. He wanted to induct me into the Hall of Fame first before I wrestled. So I did the Hall of Fame. Then Vince came to me and said, ‘Hey, we wanted to make you the GM of Raw. I said, ‘Vince, I want to wrestle.’ He said, ‘We’ll get to that.’
“So he makes me GM of RAW, and during this time, my knees are arthritic and they’re getting tighter, and I’m less active, and for eight months, I didn’t do anything. Then all of a sudden, he’s like, ‘Kurt, I want you to wrestle.’ That’s gonna be a problem. When I got in there, I looked like crap.
Baron Corbin defeated Angle in his retirement match at WrestleMania 35
"I mean, I couldn’t do anything. It made me want to retire earlier than I wanted to. That’s why I retired with Baron Corbin at WrestleMania 35. I didn’t want people to look at me and say, ‘Gosh, He used to be great, but now…’ Yeah. I didn’t want that. So I decided, ‘This is it.’”
Kurt Angle worked both as the General Manager of RAW and also as a competitor in a second run in WWE. The infamous thing about his second run in the promotion was his rivalry with Baron Corbin. The duo produced from awful matches along with Kurt Angle's retirement match at WrestleMania 35, where the Olympic gold medallist was literally humiliated. His fans could never forget Vince McMahon for this treatment.
