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Kurt Angle Speaks On If His Amateur Background Helped Him In WWE, His Debut Match, More

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WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle recently appeared on Talk Is Jericho to talk about various topics. Here are the highlights.

On whether his amateur background helped him in WWE:

I don’t think it was the wrestling background, it was really hard when I started. I was having a hard time the first few days where they were telling me that I have to allow this guy to pick me up and slam me, I have to show emotion, I’m like, I’ve never shown emotion and I don’t give my body to people so your instincts tell you to not do this and you know, you’ve done amateur wrestling for 20 years where you go for the kill, there’s no storytelling, no showing the crowd emotion, no give and take, it’s all take, take, take, but I just said, you know, you have to forget everything that you learned and start over again. I’ve always been a kid with a big imagination. I pretended to be a basketball player, I pretended to be in the NBA Finals or the Superbowl. I have a big imagination, and I think that helps in our sport in WWE and what we do in professional wrestling you have to have a big imagination, you have to come up with ideas and characters and finishes where people go wow! So, I have always been intrigued by that.

On what Vince McMahon told him his character was going to be:

What Vince explained to me, he had this planned ahead of time. He said that we are going to force you down their throats and make you seem like you are a babyface, but you are going to be a guy that is so perfect the fans are going to be annoyed by you. I said that it wasn’t going to happen and that I was an Olympic Gold Medalist, the United States of America. I’m going to be touring all these cities and he told me to trust him, they will hate me. I think he tried to do it with The Rock, with some sort of character like that, but it backfired on him and that he knew it would backfire again, so we’re going to do this the right way this time.

On his debut match against Shawn Stasiak:

I just started and I’m nervous as hell, all of a sudden the Ref tells me, ‘Angle, Vince told me to tell you to bump Stasiak, get out of the ring, pick up the Mic and tell all these people to not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist.’ I go, are you serious? He goes, listen, I’m going to say this one more time, so I went out there and did it. Whether or not Vince knew it, the fans were chanting boring because nobody knew..they knew I won a Gold Medal, but that doesn’t stand in this business. Nobody cared about Shawn or me, it was a boring match so they didn’t care who won or lost. There was no emotional investment in the match.

You can listen to the entire interview at this link.

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