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 a funny incident of Vince McMahon trying to wrestle with him on a plane.
Kurt Angle is one of the biggest legends in the world of professional wrestling. He had a career of nearly 2 decades and he had been one of the biggest names of the industry. His career started in WWE after his amazing success in the 1996 Olympics. From the very first day of joining WWE, he had been treated as a big thing.
Kurt Angle Remembers Funny Incident About Vince McMahon
In a very short amount of time he won the World Championship in WWE. He won multiple World championships in the promotion, she have also main evented WrestleMania which is considered as the biggest stage in the world of professional wrestling. He worked in WWE for 7 years and in 2006 he left the promotion to join TNA wrestling which was the biggest Rival of WWE back in those days.
He worked in TNA wrestling for nearly a decade and he was the biggest face of the promotion throughout his time with it. He won the TNA World Heavyweight championship for a total of six times. In 2017 he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame. Right now he is retired from in ring action due to multiple health issues.
Kurt Angle who is a former six times World champion in WWE and a former six times TNA World Heavyweight champion recently spoke in his book: It’s True! It’s True! where he talked about a funny incident of Vince McMahon trying to wrestle with him on a plane. He said;
“The quintessential alpha male, Vince McMahon always liked to prove himself, even against Olympic gold medalist Kurt Angle. On a plane ride, Vince decided to sneak up behind Angle and take him down amateur-style, starting an impromptu match in the aisle.”
“At that moment something made me decide to have a little fun with the boss. When Vince got up to walk away, I attacked him from behind, knocked him down, turned him over, and pinned him right in the aisle. There were about eighty World Wrestling Federation people on the plane, and everyone was howling.”
Vince and I had been on the floor for about thirty seconds as Vince struggled to get me off of him when the Undertaker came over and put a choke hold on me. He clamped me so tight that he actually choked me out and I blacked out for a minute. When I came to, Vince was standing up and he had this big smile on his face. I think he just loved the idea that he was wrestling with an Olympic champion, and he decided it wasn’t going to end there.”
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