Kurt Angle has stepped into the squared circle with Cody Rhodes outside of the WWE Universe a time-or-two.
The WWE and IMPACT Wrestling Hall of Fame legend reflected on working matches against "The American Nightmare" and even putting over the former AEW EVP on the independent scene during the latest installment of his official podcast, "The Kurt Angle Show."
Featured below are some of the highlights from the episode where he touches on this topic with his thoughts.
On wrestling Cody Rhodes several times on the indies, where he eventually put him over: "Oh, I love wrestling with Cody Rhodes. I actually wrestled him three separate times when I left TNA and I was doing the independent circuits for about a year and Cody was great. I knew he was good but I didn’t know he was that good and what I did, I decided to — we had three matches so I beat him once, he beat me once and then we had the rubber match and I felt because he had a bigger career ahead of him and I’m nearing the end of my career, I said, ‘You know what Cody? Let me just do the job for you, let you go over and continue on with your career because I’m nearing the end of my career’ and that’s what legends are supposed to do. They’re supposed to make other wrestlers before they retire."
On filling in for Roman Reigns at TLC 2017: "Johnny Laurinatis. He told me, ‘Get ready because you’re gonna be wrestling with The Shield. You’re gonna replace Roman Reigns and you’re gonna wrestle in the main event at TLC’ [Kurt laughed]. I was like, ‘Well I’m not ready Johnny but I guess I’ll go.’"
Check out the complete episode of The Kurt Angle Show podcast by visiting Apple.com. H/T to POST Wrestling for transcribing the above quotes.
