Kurt Angle Feels His TNA Run Doesn't Get Enough Accolades

Kurt Angle may be a WWE legend in the eyes of many, but its arguable that the best run of Angle’s career came in TNA Wrestling, with the Olympic Gold medallist having a 10-year run in the promotion from 2006 until 2016.

Angle himself feels his TNA run was his best work, saying to WrestleZone that he wishes it would get ‘more accolades’:

“I always get, ‘You know, Kurt Angle would have been the best of all time if he would have stuck in the WWE and wrestled there for 20 years.’ That may be true, but what’s the difference? I wrestled in TNA for 11 of my 20 years, and I think that should be added on. I had a better career in TNA. I was wrestling guys like AJ Styles and Samoa Joe and Sting. And I had a lot better career in TNA because I came into my own. You know, when you’re a professional wrestler it takes you about six, seven years to really master your craft. And that’s when I left WWE, after six years. And I went to TNA and I was a man on a mission there. And I just did incredibly well there,” Angle said.

“I don’t get enough accolades for it, you know? I mean, I know that a lot of people consider me one of the best of all times now regardless of my TNA career. But that career gets a little bit stifled. That really bothers me a little bit because, you know, I was really that good. I mean, I had an incredible career. Don’t get me wrong, the WWE career was great too. Now me coming back to the WWE in 2017, I don’t even count that. Because by then I lost a step, I wasn’t the same person. The reason why I retired early is because I looked at myself on television and I was like, ‘Wow, this looks like an old man wrestling.’ And I didn’t like what I saw,” continued Angle.

Angle recently revealed that All Elite Wrestling wanted to work with him, but turned down their approach as he didn’t want to wrestle.

H/T: F4WOnline

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