How did Kurt Angle land the role of General Manager of WWE SmackDown back in 2004?
The Olympic gold medalist and WWE Hall of Fame legend reflected on becoming the WWE SmackDown G.M. after WrestleMania 20 during a recent installment of his podcast, "The Kurt Angle Show."
Featured below is an excerpt from the episode where he touches on this topic with his thoughts.
“To be honest with you, what happened was I broke my neck again. Vince McMahon was tired of me breaking my neck and he didn’t want the fans to know about it, so he pretended I injured my knee and I was in a wheelchair.
“I was so disappointed and angry with myself that a lot of promos I was projecting to the talent was anger directed toward me. So there were a lot of angry promos I was doing. But that was a real emotion because I was letting myself down. I kept injuring my neck and I was really disappointed and confused. I was lashing out at other people even though not in real life, but on screen, the emotion that I was showing was very real. I was supposed to be this angry GM and I was.”
Check out the complete episode of the show at AdFreeShows.com. H/T to WrestlingNews.co for transcribing the above quotes.
