Former WWE Superstar Kurt Angle hasn’t been coy about his intentions to return to the WWE. The Olympic gold medallist is currently on a year’s hiatus from wrestling after hanging up his boots following a decade-long run with TNA.
The veteran is convinced that he will make it back to the WWE eventually and told The World According to Wrestling that this is how he’d like it to play out:
“For me to go back and, if I do go back I'd love to be able to wrestle, but I know I can't do it full time. I'm 47 years-old. And that's why those guys [Chad Gable & Jason Jordan] would be perfect as my team, like a Team Angle, because they could do the wrestling for me until the big one comes.
“So it would be kind of cool to have that. I'm not going to say those guys are going to be my guys, but they're almost ready to come up - if not they are ready. I've watched them wrestle and they're really good. It would be really cool to have a new Team Angle.
“I could do the big matches; the Summerslams and the Wrestlemanias. I think that would be a good mix. And it would also give them a great rub, a rub that they need. We'll see if we do something like that, I don't know if it's on the cards, but you never know.”
Angle also came clean on the circumstances leading to his departure from the company in 2006 and the WWE’s apprehension about rehiring him:
“There are a lot of reasons. The main reason was the work schedule. I was probably on the road over 300 days a year. I was getting injured quite a bit. I did have a problem with painkillers.
“When they brought me into ECW, I felt like it was a demotion. Even though it wasn't. I don't think they planned it to be. They didn't mean to, but they set that company up to fail. And I felt like I was part of it.
“Between 2008 and 2013, I got four DUIs. As a publicly traded company, it doesn't matter if you're Kurt Angle, Stone Cold Steve Austin or The Undertaker, when you get involved in that kind of trouble consistently, that's the last thing they need.
“So when I did try and go back a year and a half ago, I think they were thinking ‘Let's see how he pans out, let's see if he can stay clean, let's see if he got his shit together’ so I think that's part of it. I don't blame them for that. I actually knew ahead of time that they were most likely going to say no. And I knew it was because of my own actions.”
