Dirt McGirt Yes. It was better than Shane/Aj. It’s stuck in everyone’s minds as a moment in time where everything just hit differently and is one of the most known matches ever.
Why not lol? He’s being a spotlight hog by taking it from someone who worked their way in. Did he go through OVW? Train at the power plant? At least win tough enough? Then he’s a spoiled brat period. Doesn’t have to be a bad thing by itself though
Shane is one of the people in wwe I have the upmost respect for. He literally put his body on the line for us when he could’ve easily have just had a nice creative role and come out for the McMahon segments and storylines but wanted to give to the business
I'll never forget watching Kurt Angle in a house show main event and he was literally the best part of the show. After the match he got Chris Benoit to sing his theme song with him but he said Kurt Rocks or something. It was that innocent naive comedy that made him gold on the mic and the olympic gold took care of that on the mat.
Those guys gave their heart and body to that match. They didn’t have to do it to that extreme esp Shane cause he was vinces son and not expected of him but Kurt and him did things that u would never see again. They gave their blood. Sweat and tears and they became the closest friends as they respected each other for a life time.
I like how Kurt mentions Chris Benoit it's a suttle show of respect for his wrestling. Say what you want about him after the tragedy but the truth is he was a phenomenal wrestler.
Jonathan Webb you think cm punk had any real traditional wrestling training before he decided to do mma? He could have learned and picked up any other discipline quickly I bet. I bet an Olympic gold medal winner could easily use his wrestling skills to take someone down and then ground and pound. Look at Dan Severn he was just a wrestler and did pretty good
@Jonathan Webb if he would’ve gotten into it early in his career he could easily have done good in mma. Most great fighters in mma came from straight wrestling backgrounds and had to learn the stand up game. It’s called development
I've never been one for gimmick or hardcore matches either, but Kurt and Shane easily put on one of the most memorable matches in recent memory that night.
Given the HUGE wrestling experience gap between Shane mcmahon and Kurt angle, I'd say its a pretty damn amazing match. Kurt is right about it, but they really made it work.
My favorite quality about Angle is that he seems so humble. I don't know how he was behind the curtain, when he was younger, but I like who he seems to be now. My favorite Angle match was with Shane. It takes a lot to do crazy shit like that, I mean that is pulling a Mick Foley lol, and I respect that. I love Shane in the ring, he really does have the biggest fucking balls HAHA, cause you would not catch me jumping off a hell in the cell, or the titan tron lol.
Today I found out, in this video, that one of my favourite WWE matches of all time was structured by Al Snow. I'd already idolised Al Snow, but this is insane!
Every remember- the match with Shane was Kurt’s 3rd match that night! What an absolute weapon - the tailbone fracture would have floored anybody! Well done to Shane as well
This match went a long way to making Kurt more than what he was in his first year, it was the first time his mean steak really came out, couple that with the storyline of him wrestling four matches in one night to go back to back KOTR it really set him apart from his comedy chicken heel persona. Sad that he doesn't like this match.
Falling off the side of the tron in Summerslam vs Blackman was super scary imagine yourself doing/taking that huge risky bump if ur off a lil bit u can seriously injure or kill urself
I find it funny (not haha) that Vince wanted the match called off due to Shane’s injury’s in the match yet Owen Hart died in the ring yet ‘the show must go on’. Before anyone says anything, I’m just curious as to opinions on this. I was 11 and a half when Owen died and found out the next morning (England time) and even at the time was shocked that it didn’t stop, unfortunately I stopped watching wrestling in late 2000, sometime around Armageddon when rikishi was thrown off the cell and before the invasion and the match in question so didn’t see it in it’s time setting,
Just curious what made you stop watching in the first place, did you consider it boring at that time? I didn’t watch till years later and stopped when PG was just getting ridiculous
@@maxb4210 being a teenager is the reason i suppose. I remember when smack down 2 on ps1 came out and i had to be dragged to a school party to get off it, but not long after I must have stopped watching it. I can only say in hindsight that I started to like football more but again that’s just a guess, I can’t remember the real reason as it was over 20 years ago
I watched this match live on PPV as a kid and when Shane hit his head , man I could've threw up. Only thing in my mind was "wow, wrestling is real" you just knew that wasn't supposed to happen
When did this interview take place? Sounds like around the wrestlemania where shane faced undertaker. Kurt looks like 20 years younger here than today lol
I don’t feel a bit sympathetic or empathetic for Shawn telling Kurt to slow it down. If his old ass was too hurt or banged up to wrestle Kurt, he should’ve just gone and cried to Vince like he used to. Problem solved.
