Kurt Angle comments on getting beat up during ECW One Night Stand in 2005.
The event in 2005 would eventually lead to Kurt Angle getting gored out of the ring by Rhino and choked out by Taz on the aisle.
Kurt commented on the finish during the most recent episode of The Kurt Angle Show noting that he was a “real pain in the ass” at that point in his career.
“I will tell you this. It was all my fault. At this point in my career, I was a real pain in the ass. I was addicted to painkillers. I was hiding it. I was getting injured all the time. I was really frustrated with creative because of the Sharmell angle and all this stuff. I just felt like I kept lashing out and saying, ‘Oh, why are you guys doing this? You know, you need to change things. I need something better than this.’ I was always demanding everything. I think the company said, ‘You know what, we need to put this guy in this place,’ and that’s what they did. I don’t blame them for that. I’m not kissing their ass by any means, but I was a real asshole.
I can’t believe I was that way because that’s not me, but I had been addicted to the painkillers and getting injuries and being so frustrated all the time. I was lashing out and I definitely deserved that. So it was them teaching me a lesson, basically, because I was one of the top guys in the company. They don’t normally do that to the top guys in the company, but they had to do that to me at this point in time,”
Kurt Angle
Kurt retired from the ring full time at WrestleMania 35, losing a singles match to Baron Corbin at the event.
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