Kurt Angle Reveals The Original Idea For His Birthday Celebration On 12/9 WWE SmackDown
Kurt Angle reveals how his birthday celebration on the December 9 episode of WWE Friday Night SmackDown came to be.
On Friday, December 9, Kurt Angle celebrated his birthday at the close of WWE Smackdown by dowsing Chad Gable and Otis in milk alongside Gable Steveson. After the show went off the air, Kurt would continue to celebrate with the rest of the WWE roster and Triple H.
Now, on the latest episode of The Kurt Angle Show podcast, Kurt is explaining how his birthday celebration came about. angle reveals that he’s the one that actually approached WWE first.
“Well, I approached WWE and I said, ‘Listen, your Olympic Hero is gonna have a birthday on December 9. You’re gonna be in Pittsburgh, WWE is gonna be a Pittsburgh, it’s a perfect time to celebrate my birthday,” Said Kurt on the episode that was recorded before the segment was filmed. “So they were like, ‘Yeah, yeah, we’ll think about it. They came back to me and they said, Okay, we’re gonna do something.'”
Kurt Angle then goes on to reveal the original plan for the segment on December 9, saying that he was supposed to not even show up for his own celebration, before hosing down an unspecified number of heels with milk to end the episode.
“They wanted me to do the milk truck segment again,” Kurt says. “They decided to have a bunch of heels talk about me during the show, all through the show, putting me down, and ripping on me. Then, in the end, they were coming out to the ring because I was supposed to have my celebration, I don’t show up, and the heels are in the ring with all the birthday cake and everything, and I come in with milk truck and I go down and I spray them down. I tell them, ‘Hey, you can’t have cake without milk.’ It’s awesome. When I was told this, I was so excited. Because that was my favorite moment in WWE. Driving that milk truck into the arena in Sacramento, California. It was my number one moment, I absolutely love that I had such a great time doing it. And it was an awesome moment for me to be able to do it again.”
While the original plan does not match exactly as it played out on television, Kurt Angle did tell Alpha Academy that “you can’t have cake without milk.”
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