The only Olympic Gold Medalist in WWE history Kurt Angle has been one of the most decorated performers in WWE history. He amazed the wrestling fans with his excellent in-ring skills as well as his acting skills. He was pretty good at his mic skills as well. Moreover, he was a complete professional wrestler.
Kurt Angle won six world championships under WWE. Four of them were WWE championships, one of them being a World Heavyweight Championship win and the other one was the WCW World Heavyweight championship. In his ten-year career of Total Nonstop Wrestling, he also won the TNA World Heavyweight Championship six times. The list of his achievements is huge.
Kurt Angle On His Debut Match In WWE
But Kurt Angle’s first match was not seen as a very promising start by the fans. Even though he made his wrestling debut against Tiger Ali Singh his first match was against Shawn Stasiak in 1999. During an episode of The Kurt Angle Show, he talked about his first-ever match in WWE,
“I was nervous as hell. I never did it before, and this was my debut. I was wrestling Shawn, which I was familiar with Shawn because I started training with him. So, we had a few dark matches we had done before. But this was very scary. This was my debut and I was more concerned about getting everything right.
“The crazy thing is, during the match in the middle of it, the fans were chanting ‘boring.’ The referee comes to me – Shawn has me in a chokehold – and the [referee] says, ‘Listen, Vince wants you to beat up Shawn, go outside the ring, grab the microphone, and say you do not chant boring to an Olympic gold medalist. I came here for you.’ I was like holy shit. I never did this before, and nobody warned me ahead of time. This was an improvisation by Vince. I paused for a second, and the ref said you’ve gotta do it. I said, ‘What does he want me to do again?’ He had to repeat it again, and I went out and I did it.
“The fans reacted and chanted ‘boring’ even louder. So, we got the reaction we wanted. The match was good, it wasn’t great. We didn’t have a lot of time, but I thought the match was very smooth. It was decent.”
When Kurt Angle returned to WWE the newer audience failed to recognize his true talents. As a result, WWE and Kurt himself decided not to perform anymore. But no matter what, he will always remain one of the best performers in WWE history.