During a recent appearance on Wrestletalk.TV, Kurt Angle discussed his 2001 King of the Ring match with Shane McMahon where he put Shane O’ Mac through glass. Here are some highlights:
On why the match is remembered “It’s not my kind of wrestling, I’m not into that, but I was proud to be a part of it. I didn’t know it would become that iconic of a match, but it did. It had nothing to do with me. Shane McMahon and Al Snow mapped that match out, I didn’t. I did what they told me to do.”
On having to throw Shane McMahon through glass repeatedly: “He kept telling me every time I kept throwing him through that wall and the glass didn’t go anywhere, do it again. I said ‘no,’ and he was swearing. It wasn’t that Shane was my boss, but I felt like he was my boss. He was the guy telling me what to do and when to do it.”
On what went wrong in the match: “It was Shane’s match. It was his time to shine. I knew I was going to have many other nights, Shane wasn’t. Whatever I could do to please him, I was going to do, as long as he was coherent. Unfortunately, whoever was responsible for getting the glass, got the wrong glass. It was supposed to be sugar glass, and it was plexiglass. When we did break it, we both got bloodied up. There wasn’t even supposed to be any pyro that night because they were afraid the sugar glass would crumble.”
