Kurt Angle really did the media rounds today. After his 90 minute media conference call, the TNA star called into Bubba the Love Sponge's Sirius radio show. He talks about a wide range of newsworthy topics - it's a very interesting read.
- Angle starts off by saying he really wasn't treated right in WWE. Vince overworked him to a breaking point with house shows and appearances. When Heidenreich failed a medical exam due to high blood pressure, Vince had Angle replace him.
- Angle's wife is pregnant with his second child and is expected to give birth within the next month or two.
- Angle told Vince that he had a serious pain pill addiction and needed to enter rehab, and Vince wouldn't let him. He told Vince, "I'm Gonna Die." Vince told him to figure out his problems on the road. Wow. Vince needed Angle to help put Cena over big and make him strong for his WrestleMania 21 main event match with JBL.
- Triple H is in a really bad spot because he hogs the show and is booking it at the same time.
- Angle had a lot of heat with Triple H because Triple H wouldn't put him over. Triple tapped out to Chris Benoit becuase Benoit had no charisma. Triple H tapped out to John Cena because Cena can't wrestle that well. Triple H wouldn't tap out to Angle because Angle was the true total package who had charisma and could wrestle.
- Angle doesn't respect Triple H as a person. Triple H was against Angle getting the belt a few years back because Angle was too small. When Jerry Brisco suggested Triple H do a shoot fight with Angle to see how much Angle's size really mattered, Triple H backed down on Angle not getting the belt.
- Angle was very close to signing a big contract with the K-1 MMA company to fight Brock Lesnar
- Angle says Big show could be making huge money in Japan for working very few dates. He said Big Show would be a major attraction there and was one of his best friends in WWE. He talked about Big Show having a huge penis.
- Angle said that Vince McMahon would tell his wife Karen that she was better looking than any of the WWE divas. He gave the impression that he wasn't pleased with the attention Vince would give his wife.
- Angle was very close to signing a contract with UFC after he won his gold medal in 1996 but when UFC had their problems with getting banned in many states, that deal fell through.
- Angle feels he's got one shoot fight left in him.
- Angle said Tito Ortiz only has a few fights left in him too, and that Angle could beat him with 6 months of training.
- When asked about the most money he ever made with Vince in a single year, Angle laughed at the host's guess that it was near $5 million. Angle said the most he ever made ina year was $2.5 Million. He had major heat with Vince because Vince wouldn't let Angle do any merchandizing. Angle would come to Vince with great ideas for merchandise and Vince would say, "You're going to make your money in the ring".
- They talked about Angle's drug problems. The hosts tried to guess how much Angle was taking at the height of his addiction. They guessed that he was taking upto 15 [Vicodin] pills a day, Angle said "more than 4 times that". Later int the interview he confirmed he was upto around 65-70 pills a day. He said that he's very lucky to be alive - and that after many tests, doctors told him they were very surprised at how little damage he had done to his body. Angle said "If your urine looks like Coca Cola, that means you've done permanent damage to your liver - and my urine is red, white and blue" .. He clarified that he was joking about his patriotic pee.
- Angle is back with his wife and they are doing well.
- During their match at No Way Out 2005 talked about earlier, Angle said he went very rough on Cena in an effort to make him fight back and draw some emotion out of Cena.
- Angle hyped his move to TNA being as big as when Hogan jumped to WCW in 1993.
- When he wrestled Hulk Hogan, Hogan told Angle to slow down his pace and not to wrestle so stiff. "Easy brother - they're already here, they've already paid to see you". Angle said he almost always calls [the spots in] his matches but Hogan called the match when they fought.
- Angle said WWE badly misused Andrew "Test" Martin in his first run with the company and is glad to see him getting some TV time in ECW.
- Angle said Chris Jerico isn't a great singer and that wrestling is in his blood.
- Pride Fighting Championship offered Kurt $30 Million for a 5 Year contract. This would have included $2 million per fight, 3 fights a year for 5 years.
- Angle predicts TNA's prime time ratings will be 2-3 times what they are doing now (we'll see about that!)
- Angle wants Bubba to do an angle in TNA and Bubba sounded very open to it. Angle said he had spoken to Dixie Carter and she was into it too.
- Angle wants to be on Bubba's radio show every week and feels it would be great publicity for TNA.
- Angle said that his deal with TNA is NOT exclusive and that TNA was encouraging Angle to pursue shoot fighting in UFC. Its actually UFC who told Angle he needs to be exclusive to them. UFC offered Angle a 5-year multi-million dollar deal to do nothing more than "a fight or two" and to appear in the crowd at all UFC events, which he declined.
- Much like Hulk Hogan has done on Bubba's show, Angle concluded by talking about his sex life with his wife. Without getting as graphic as Angle did, we'll say that Kurt enjoys anal sex with his wife. Gotta love satellite radio.
