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 WrestleMania XIX match and revealed what WWE originally planned for him for the mentioned event.
WrestleMania XIX was the only WWE event that Kurt Angle ever main evented. He walked in as the WWE World Champion and defended the title against Brock Lesnar. It was the early days of Lesnar and he was given a monster push by McMahon during this time.
Kurt Angle Reveals What WWE Originally Planned For Him At WrestleMania XIX
He defeated all the big names of the previous era including the likes o Hulk Hogan, The Rock, The Undertaker, The Big Show at WrestleMania XIX he defeated Kurt Angle to regain the WWE World Championship.
The match got an excellent build up. Lesnar defeated the Rock at SummerSlam 2002 to win the WWE World Championship and he dropped it to the Big Show at Survivor Series of the same year. On the very next pay per view event, Big Show dropped the WWE championship to Kurt Angle and he received help from Lesnar to win the title. Angle was a babyface during the time but he turned Heel to feud with Lesnar at WrestleMania XIX.
Brock Lesnar went on to win the Royal Rumble match and he challenged Angle for the WWE championship on the main event of WrestleMania XIX. The match was definitely amazing, what the fans remember this match more for the Shooting Star Press botch of Lesnar. But apart from that botch, the match was excellent and Angle did an amazing job to lift Lesnar. This was pretty much it for the one on one feud between these two wrestlers.
Kurt Angle who is a former six times World Champion in WWE recently spoke on his Kurt Angle Show where he talked about his WrestleMania XIX match and revealed what WWE originally planned for him for the mentioned event. He said;
“What I think they were trying to do was, Brock was undefeated at this point in time kicking ass, taking names. and they wanted him to win the title. He won the title and he only held it for a couple of months, I believe. I was next in line to have a good title reign.
“They didn’t want me to be Brock at Survivor Series because I was going to wrestle Brock at WrestleMania XIX, five months later, and during that time, I was supposed to beat Brock, but I broke my neck beforehand, so I had to do the job for Brock and lose to him and give him the title because I had to have surgery.
“So they didn’t want me to beat Brock two times in a row. So Big Show beat Brock Lesnar, then I beat Big Show. That way, I didn’t beat Brock twice, even though he ended up beating me at WrestleMania because I broke my neck.”
H/T to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription