The Love Triangle Storyline between Kurt Angle, Stephanie McMahon & Triple H was one of the most talked-about storylines from the attitude era. It was remembered for a lot of things. It was not the first time that WWE came up with a love triangle storyline, there were similar feuds like Jake Roberts, Cheryl Roberts, and Rick Rude, and also the famous love triangle of Randy Savage, Miss Elizabeth, and Hulk Hogan.
So what was so special about this feud? The most important had to Stephanie McMahon being involved in the feud. The daughter of the owner of WWE is in a love triangle storyline? How her father Vince McMahon might have reacted?
Kurt Angle Opens Up About His Love Triangle Storyline With Stephanie & Triple H
Another thing that is never been overlooked in this feud was, it was a heel vs. heel storyline. Such feuds never attract many fans but this one actually did.
And how nervous would have Kurt Angle felt during this time? After all, it was just a storyline, so it would have the most difficult for the Olympic Gold Medalist. On the latest edition of the Kurt Angle Show podcast Angle reflects on the incident where he talked about Vince McMahon’s role in this feud and also how he felt himself during all these,
Angle recalls Vince McMahon directing him to kiss Stephanie:
“Oh, this was ridiculously weird. I mean, to come backstage with Stephanie and to have to do a pre-tape that was going live, so we weren’t going to tape it, it was going to be one take. I think Vince did that on purpose so we only had to kiss once. I also don’t know if we had the time to pre-tape it, so that was probably the real issue. We got backstage and Vince wants to direct it. I was like, ‘Holy shit,’ Vince McMahon, Stephanie McMahon’s father is going to direct me kissing her during a pre-tape.
Says how nervous he was:
“I was nervous as hell. Vince was four feet away and his eyes were this open. He’s just looking. I’m like, ‘This is so weird, man. I don’t know how I’m going to do this.’ So, I went down to kiss her and we caught eyes and then we went to kiss and I stuck my lips out like this because I didn’t want to go with an open mouth because Vince was there and I didn’t want to disrespect Triple H or Stephanie. But I kissed her like this and after the pre-tape, she goes, ‘Hey, you kiss like a fish.’ I was like, ‘What did you expect Stephanie, your dad’s here watching. He’s directing. Your dating Triple H. What do you want me to do?’”
These types of feuds are common nowadays since we have seen a lot since then. But this particular storyline will always remain fresh and special for all mentioned above reasons.
(H/T and transcribed by 411 Mania)