Vince McMahon Offered Kurt Angle Dream Match With Major Star If He Stayed Wrestling One More Year

Kurt Angle was offered a dream match and a fairytale ending to his illustrious career, but he decided against it due to the conditions surrounding it.

Kurt Angle retired after WrestleMania 35, where he went one on one with Baron Corbin. Angle would retire after the match, but there was another offer on the table with regards to Kurt’s final match in WWE.

In a new interview with Rene Dupree, Angle revealed that he would have gotten the opportunity to wrestle Cena if he would have kept his in-ring career going for just one more year.

“When I presented to Vince McMahon that I was going to retire after WrestleMania that year, I told him I knew that I was losing a step. I knew I wasn’t the same as before. I didn’t like my performances and I said to Vince ‘I wanna retire after this WrestleMania, but I’d like to ask you for a favor. I’d like you to put me with John Cena, because I started his career so I’d like him to end my career.’. He said ‘Kurt, you have a program with Baron Corbin, it’s been going on for six months. You have to finish it. If you wanna wait till next year, I’ll give you John Cena next year.’. I told [him I couldn’t wait another year]. I totally understood. Vince was right, I was doing a program with Baron. It was going five or six months and I had to see it through. He did give me the option of going another year and wrestling Cena, and I probably shoulda done that looking back. I probably could have just laid back and not wrestled for a good six or seven or eight months and started to get myself ready. I gained a lot of weight in this particular time, I could have got away from the product and got in better shape and then came back for WrestleMania and wrestled John Cena.”

Kurt Angle to Rene Dupree

Of course, the pair have a long standing rivalry. Kurt retired from the ring after Mania 35 and has no plans to step into the ring again.

H/T to Fightful for transcription

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