Professional wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle who is a former six times World champion in WWE recently talked about working for other promotions apart from WWE and explained why he never joined the Ring Of Honor.
Kurt Angle worked for several other promotions apart from WWE including some independent circuit promotions as well. However he mostly earned his fame from WWE. Is WWE career officially began in 1998 and he worked in the promotion till 2006. He had been quite successful in the promotion.
Kurt Angle Reveals Why He Never Went To Ring Of Honor
In 2006, he decided to leave the promotion as he was not happy with the way WWE was treating him during the time. When Vince McMahon decided to send him to send him to the ECW, he felt like he had been demoted and he decided to leave the promotion. After leaving WWE, he joined TNA Wrestling and he became the biggest signing of the promotion.
While and after working in TNA, Angle worked on various independent circuit promotions as well. He also worked in Japan and his match against Brock Lesnar in Japan became quite famous among the wrestling fans. But he never worked in the Ring of Honor. In 2017 he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.
Kurt Angle who is a former six times World champion in WWE recently spoke on The Kurt Angle Show podcast where he talked about working for other promotions apart from WWE and explained why he never joined the Ring Of Honor. He said;
“Well, TNA has an incredible contract, they gave me a lot of money. I had a lot, a lot less dates and WWE. I mean, I only had like 52 dates that I needed to oblige. So obliged with the company. So what they did is they started sending me out, marketing me to other companies, so they can make a little bit of their money back. I didn’t get paid for these shows, unfortunately, but I understood why they did it.
“After a while, I told them, ‘Listen, that’s enough,’ because they start sending and over there five times a year. It was ridiculous and I was getting 50 grand a pop in Japan, and I wasn’t seeing any of the money. So it didn’t seem right to me after a while. I was like, ‘Okay, I’m doing way too much. You guys need to back off just let me do my TNA schedule.’ That’s what we did eventually.”
“No, I’m surprised. But I wasn’t really interested in doing anything outside of TNA. I did what I had to do because the company wanted me to. If they would have asked me to go to Ring of Honor — which I think Ring of Honor, at that particular time, was a competitor, so they didn’t want me to go over there and compete against myself. So I think that’s the reason why I never did anything with Ring of Honor. But don’t get me wrong. I would’ve loved to.”
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