Kurt Angle: If I Stuck With WWE For 20 Years, I’d Be Considered The Greatest Of All Time

Kurt Angle wishes he could have stayed healthy. 

Kurt Angle had a Hall of Fame career and is considered by many to be one of the greatest wrestlers of all time. Angle won championships in WWE and IMPACT, and had some of the most highly regarded matches of his era. 

Speaking on The Kurt Angle Show, Angle was asked if he would change anything about his career.

“I don’t regret going to TNA. I absolutely love TNA, I love my eleven years there. I probably would have stayed if the money didn’t run out. I knew it was my time to go back to WWE and I wanted to finish my career where I started. If I go back, the one thing I would love to change is that I wish I didn’t get injured so much. That’s what caused my painkiller problem and my painkiller problem caused me to leave WWE. I felt like if I wasn’t going to leave, I was going to end up doing something bad, which was overdose on painkillers. I thought it was right for me to leave. If I wouldn’t have left the WWE, and I would have wrestled there 20 straight years, I really believe, to this day, I’d be the greatest of all time. That’s not me blowing smoke, that’s me being honest. I think I would be considered the greatest of all time if I would have stuck with WWE for 20 years,” he said. 

Angle then said with a laugh that he’s already the greatest of all time. 

Angle left WWE in 2006 to join TNA/IMPACT. He returned to WWE in 2017 and was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame that same year. 

Elsewhere during the interview, Angle discussed Baron Corbin’s current push in WWE. You can find his full comments by clicking here. 

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