A rematch against the Heartbreak Kid at WrestleMania would have satisfied Kurt Angle.
Kurt Angle and Shawn Michaels wrestled for the first time at WWE WrestleMania 21 in 2005.
Angle would win the first encounter and set up a rivalry that would play out over several matches in 2005, culminating with a 30-minute Iron Man Match at WWE Raw: Homecoming in 2005.
On the latest episode of his podcast, Kurt Angle noted that there were no significant talks of what he would have done at the 2006 WrestleMania in Chicago had he not been moved over to SmackDown.
However, if he had his choice, he would have liked one more WrestleMania match with “Mr. WrestleMania,” Shawn Michaels.
“I’m not quite sure, but my guess was a repeat against Shawn Michaels,” said Kurt. “We were doing a lot of on and off. Shawn and I were working together all year long, since 2005 at WrestleMania. All through that year, all 2005, in the beginning of 2006, I was still working with Shawn and John Cena, but I would imagine it would be a program either with John Cena or Shawn Michaels.”
Kurt later added that if he had his personal choice of opponent at WrestleMania at the Allstate Arena, it would have been another match with HBK.
“We were doing a lot of work together, and I would have been really excited about that. To work with Shawn again would have been the match that I would have picked for WrestleMania, definitely. To be able to wrestle Shawn a second time at WrestleMania, that would have been incredible.”
WrestleMania 22 would be Kurt Angle’s last WrestleMania before he returned to WWE in 2017 and competed at WrestleMania 34 in 2018, wrestling Triple H and Stephanie McMahon alongside Ronda Rousey.
Angle ultimately retired at WrestleMania 35 after a loss to Baron Corbin.
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