Professional wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle who is a former six times World champion in WWE and a former six times TNA World Heavyweight champion recently talked about his first Intercontinental Championship drop and explained why he did not like it.
Kurt Angle won his first WWE Intercontinental Championship at the No Way Out pay per view event of year 2000 where he defeated Chris Jericho to win the title. He was already holding the WWE European championship at that time, therefore he held two championships after winning the Intercontinental championship at No Way Out.
Kurt Angle Reveals Why He Did Not Like His First Intercontinental Title Drop
At WrestleMania 2000 he defended both of the championship in a Two Fall Match against Chris Jericho and Chris Benoit and it was a triple threat match. The match was scheduled as a Two Fall Match, in each fall one Championship was defended. The first fall was for the WWE Intercontinental championship and the second one was for the European championship.
The funniest part was, Kurt Angle was a never been pinned in this match but he lost both of his Championship as Chris Jericho and Chris Benoit pinned each other to share one title title. Such a stipulated match was never seen again but it was pretty unique and really fun to watch.
Kurt Angle who is a former six times World champion in WWE recently spoke on his Kurt Angle Show where he talked about his first Intercontinental Championship drop and explained why he did not like it. He said;
“I loved the match with Chris, I just didn’t like the finish. I thought that the referee being outside the ring with Chyna for way too long, just felt like, a little too drawn out. It just wasn’t, it wasn’t a clever finish, it could’ve been better.”
“At WrestleMania 2000, Angle took on Jericho and Chris Benoit in a two-fall match for both the European and Intercontinental Championships, which was won first by Jericho and then Benoit. Angle revealed if he knew they were going to start building to a triple threat at WrestleMania 2000 when he won the Intercontinental Championship.
“No I didn’t know that. I actually thought I was only going to defend one title at WrestleMania. They came up with the idea to have a triple threat and, you know, add Benoit to the mix and both of those guys would beat me for the title at WrestleMania and one of them would hold one and the other one would hold the other.”
“Angle discussed being excited to work with Benoit following his coming over from WCW. “I followed Chris, him and Eddie [Guerrero] majorly in WCW,” Angle said. “I loved both of their work and I knew that I could have incredible matches with them. I was very much looking forward to wrestling Chris.”
H/T to Wrestling Inc for the transcription