When you're a competitor like Kurt Angle, you never stop thinking about a comeback to the big leagues.
The Olympic gold medalist and WWE / IMPACT Wrestling Hall of Fame legend admitted on the "INSIGHT with Chris Van Vliet" podcast this week that he always thinks about a potential return to WWE while working in IMPACT (TNA) Wrestling.
"Yeah, I thought about it all the time," he said. "Don’t get me wrong, I really love TNA. The thing is, when I started thinking about going back to WWE, was when the money started running out, and people are getting let go, or people were getting laid off. And, you know, I signed my last contract with them. I think it was for five more years. And I figured you know what, after this contract is up, they probably won’t have the money to pay me because they were paying me seven figures, and it was a part-time deal. So I knew that they probably wouldn’t give me that money that I was making."
Angle continued, "So I figured you know what it’s time to think about going back to WWE. And I also want to go back because I wanted to go back for the fans and to thank them, the WWE Universe, because I had six and a half Incredible Years in WWE. And I wanted to go back and thank the fans personally and perform for them before I retired."
Check out the complete interview at Apple.com. H/T to TJRWrestling.net for transcribing the above quotes.