Kurt Angle Speaks on His TNA Deal Expiring and More

Posted by Marc Middleton on Friday, August 27th, 2010

- Kurt Angle says he’s going to continue wrestling full-time until his TNA deal expires in a year, but after that, he’ll have to evaluate his future.

In an interview with Kevin Eck of the Baltimore Sun, Angle said, “I believe that you’re not going to see much more of Kurt Angle.”

“Financially, I’m fine,” he said.. “The hard part about leaving wrestling is I’ll miss it. I have a couple of food companies now and I’m doing movies. If I do retire, I think it’ll be a retirement match, and then a part-time schedule. It’s so hard for wrestlers to leave the ring. It’s difficult and I’ve given it thought. I have one year left on my contract with TNA and then I will evaluate from there.”

Angle says his knees, lower back, and neck are “always stiff,” but he hasn’t felt this good in a decade.

“I think this is probably the best I’ve felt, and it has a lot to do with the reduced work schedule in TNA where they’re not using me at every house show,” Angle said. “So having that lighter schedule has allowed my body to recuperate more.”

Angle needs to scale back the physicality of his in-ring style if he wants to continue wrestling, but he doesn’t know if he’s capable of that.

“Many people have told me, including Vince McMahon himself, that my work style is too intense; too aggressive. I don’t know if I can ‘work smarter,’ if you want to put it that way,” he said. “I learned from wrestlers like Eddie Guerrero and Chris Benoit, who were under-sized, to make up for that by working with much more intensity.”

Angle also talked about his movie career, which stars in TNA he thinks have what it takes to carry the company into the future and more.

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7 Responses to Kurt Angle Speaks on His TNA Deal Expiring and More:

  1. slam

    Date: Aug 27, 2010 at 1:05 PM

    oh its real its dam real

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  2. Dave

    Date: Aug 27, 2010 at 1:43 PM

    Could you imagine, if for some reason, he went back to the WWE?! Something like that could bury TNA…

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  3. SaveUs150Fps

    Date: Aug 27, 2010 at 2:53 PM

    Hmm maybe thats why WWE only allows John Cena to do 5 moves because it is considered to be “working smarter” and they dont want John Cena to get burnt out and they want to use him and force him down our throats for as long as they can.

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  4. Nicholas G

    Date: Aug 27, 2010 at 7:22 PM

    Man it seems like a lot of guys in TNA are slowly leaving the company. I feel Kurt Angle may be ready for retirement. But if he does return to wrestling don’t know if TNA would be around. He should take at least a year off from wrestling think about what he wants to do.

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  5. i dont care

    Date: Aug 28, 2010 at 1:21 AM

    Sod TNA, Angle has always been great at what he does, when his time does come up, hopefully he gets the chance to have a retirement match at Wrestlemania so he can go out in front of tens of thousands rather than the 500 TNA can get in their warehouse

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  6. Rich

    Date: Aug 29, 2010 at 11:32 AM

    Kurt Angle is my favorite wrestler of all time and i’m gonna be real sad when he retires

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  7. Big Saw

    Date: Sep 01, 2010 at 1:39 AM

    A Kurt Angle retirement match would be the biggest rating that tna ever got. But they’d probably ruin it and have Hogan retire him.

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