Post by petrolino on Oct 4, 2023 23:33:20 GMT
'Right Angle Of Discomfort'
'Title Matches' : Booker T Vs Kurt Angle @ Raw & Smackdown
“I remember working with Kurt and I was so nervous about working with Kurt Angle because I knew that this may be the one guy that blow me up. I said, ‘I’m going to go out and match him blow for blow, move for move, point for point,’ just to show him how good I am, as well as (show him) he can’t leave me in the dust. And I was so nervous about working with Kurt Angle just because that right there alone, you got to be there at the top of your game with somebody like Kurt Angle.”
- Booker T, Hall Of Fame Podcast (via Inside The Ropes)
"The world will never know just where the storyline between Kurt Angle and his "son,' Jason Jordan, was going in 2018 — Jordan was forced to retire due to a neck injury — but now, thanks to the former Olympic gold medalist himself, we know why the whole angle came about: as a racially motivated rib.
Angle revealed as much in his latest episode of "The Kurt Angle Show."
"Vince McMahon caught wind that I dated a couple of African-American women in my past," Angle said. "About 17 years ago, he had me do a program with Booker T and Sharmell, where I was stalking Sharmell, Booker T's wife. And now it's Jason Jordan. Vince likes to take ribs and turn them into storylines. He just has this crazy weird personality. And he just wanted to kind of rub it in my face, like, 'Hey, I know what was going on in your life, and we're going to make it into a storyline.' He wasn't going to let this thing die. It was going to keep going."
While the angle may have begun life as a rib, Angle revealed he and Jordan made the most of it and even got very close as it went on."
Angle revealed as much in his latest episode of "The Kurt Angle Show."
"Vince McMahon caught wind that I dated a couple of African-American women in my past," Angle said. "About 17 years ago, he had me do a program with Booker T and Sharmell, where I was stalking Sharmell, Booker T's wife. And now it's Jason Jordan. Vince likes to take ribs and turn them into storylines. He just has this crazy weird personality. And he just wanted to kind of rub it in my face, like, 'Hey, I know what was going on in your life, and we're going to make it into a storyline.' He wasn't going to let this thing die. It was going to keep going."
While the angle may have begun life as a rib, Angle revealed he and Jordan made the most of it and even got very close as it went on."
"To be honest with you, we treated each other like father and son," Angle said. "It's crazy. He was calling me 'dad,' I was calling him 'son.' We were half-joking, but we were half-serious, too. It was like I was his dad in the WWE, for real ... He never disrespected me. He was always a good kid. And here I am talking to you like he was my son. It was just crazy because that's how we treated it."
- Eric Mutter, Wrestling Inc
"In the old days I was concerned about the performers not being as tall as me. We would compensate for that in various ways."
- Vince McMahon, Muscle And Fitness
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