Kurt returned to WWE in April 2017 for his induction into the Hall of Fame and later, General Manager of Raw.They did get to have a match at No Way Out however. Vince apparently shot the idea down straight away. The Undertaker apparently suggested them having a match at WrestleMania 22 and Kurt being the one to end the streak.He was also supposed to retain the title before his injury.

Kurt had a change of mind after hearing how excited people were for the match, and opted to wrestle anyway - something he affirms would not happen in WWE today. Brock Lesnar would then have faced Chris Benoit instead.

In 2003 he hurt his neck at the No Way Out PPV and was going to drop the title before WrestleMania XIX in a thirty-second match on SmackDown.

It's very odd to listen to as it features bells and tambourines, and it sounds like a Christmas version of the Kurt Angle theme. Recycled Soundtrack: His WWE theme had originally been used two years earlier by the Patriot.He also briefly dated former TNA Knockout Rhaka Khan.There were rumours that he was the father of her child, but those have long since been disproven. Dawn Marie herself confirmed that they were having an affair while Kurt was still married to Karen.Role-Ending Misdemeanor: He was released from WWE in 2006 (allegedly) due to his refusal to go into drug rehab.So they improvised all the funny skits as a way of keeping them on TV. He and Stone Cold were both injured at the same PPV and unable to wrestle for a couple of months.He also started using the Ankle Lock as his main submission finisher.ДЄngle: I won a gold medal with a broken freakin' neck! Jack Swagger's All-American wrestling background was used to create his nicknames, 'The All-American American' and 'The Real American', centered around a character with varying degrees of relative emphasis on his Patriotic Fervor and arrogant wrestling pride.The World's Greatest Tag Team, Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas, were introduced to mainline WWE programming as his understudies, Team Angle, and given Angle's theme, and even after breaking off from him were given a heroic rock theme similar to his in all but melody actually titled 'Heroes'.Follow the Leader: Kurt Angle's success both inside and outside the company has been treated by WWE as a well that they could occasionally tap into for establishing the characters of guys with amateur wrestling backgrounds.He dislikes Gimmick Matches and hates doing them.He doesn't fully agree with WWE's Unpersoning of Chris Benoit, because he felt his best matches were against him, and it feels that he has to pretend they didn't happen.He regrets returning so soon after his 2003 neck injury, saying he should have taken a whole year out to properly heal his neck.

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