WWE Hall of Famer and professional wrestling legend Jeff Jarrett who is a former four times WCW World Heavyweight Champion recently revealed that Dixie Carter put Kurt Angle in an awkward situation by asking him for his opinions on all things of creative decisions.
Kurt Angle was not seen in any professional wrestling promotion since leaving WWE during covid-19 pandemic situation. He was working as a backstage personnel at WWE after announcing his retirement from in ring action. But WWE was forced to release him last year due to the covid-19 pandemic, as mentioned above.
Jeff Jarrett On Dixie Carter Giving Creative Freedom To Kurt Angle In TNA
There cannot be any doubt that Kurt Angle is one of the biggest names in the history of professional wrestling. He might have earned his early fame from WWE but his time in the Total Nonstop Action wrestling was also very precious. He won the TNA Heavyweight Championship of the World for a total of six times.
In some recently given interviews, Angle name the that he was in the best shape of his life and he was pretty much confident that he could still give 5 star matches if he got into the ring even at the age of 52. Fans still want the Olympic gold medallist back in action. But it has also been cleared by him that he does not want to get back into the ring until the right time arrives.
Jeff Jarrett who is a former four times WCW World Heavyweight Champion recently spoke on his My World podcast where he revealed that Dixie Carter put Kurt Angle in an awkward situation by asking him for his opinions on all things of creative decisions. He said;
“Dixie was adamant on getting Kurt’s input on everything. I thought that was a huge mistake. Don’t put Kurt in a position to have to comment on everything because in a lot of ways, that will back him in a corner and more or less force him to give feedback that he’s not really asking to give.
“That’s putting a top guy that’s coming in, making a boatload of money, and truth be known, Kurt had been in the industry less than 10 years at this point, he learned the WWE way and learned it very well, and learned about Kurt Angle, the Olympic Gold Medalist. Outside of that, I’m positive of this but I didn’t know it at the time, but he didn’t want to give his feedback on everything. It put him in an awkward position.
“A lot of times, Dixie, and not just with Kurt but with others, would ask people a question but she would hear what she wanted to hear and she would deliver that. I can remember telling her, ‘Dixie, don’t put him in this position.
“Let Vince (Russo), let Dutch (Mantell) and other creative members craft the show, but asking Kurt to be involved in everything, the very top of the reason why I didn’t want that to go down was, that, by design, takes Kurt’s eye off the ball of his own stuff. I wanted him to focus solely on what makes Kurt tick, his opponent tick, and the best matches, and the best promos. That’s what we hired him for.
“We didn’t hire him to be on the creative team, and we didn’t hire him to do anything other than be Kurt, be the leader of the company, and from an in-ring perspective, to put the company on his back. I just thought it was doing Kurt a disservice to put him in a position to have to comment on things that candidly, he didn’t give two craps about.”
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