Angle then stepped in and asked the Big Show to exit the ring. “He turned around and I said, ‘Let’s go’. All the wrestlers around the ring, like lumberjack style, looked at him and said, “You’re not getting out bro.” Angle overcame the current Universal Champion in the technical match despite Lesnar weighing 90 pounds more than Angle. Angle stated that he took Lesnar “down into the ropes a good 7-8 times”.

“He used the ropes to say we’re out of bounds. That’s OK. I did take him down once. He didn’t take me down at all. It was really close, but to me, Brock wasn’t the wrestler I was.”

Angle then said: “If Brock would have gone beyond the NCAA’s and went on to the Olympic level, there’s no way in hell I would have beat Brock. He is that good of an athlete, but he just didn’t know wrestling like I did. He didn’t know the sport of wrestling. He didn’t know the techniques and the little tricks and triggers that go with it.”