3: Kurt Angle is a known admirer
As one of the hottest tag-teams in the world right now, American Alpha have a host of former wrestlers who are huge fans of their work. Amongst them is former WWE Champion and fan favourite, Kurt Angle. Angle has likened them to his former protégés Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas.
The former Olympic gold medalist has praised their work on many occasions and has in the past even talked about the possibility of working with the duo as a manager in the mould of a modern day Team Angle.
“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 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 Summerslam 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.”
- Kurt Angle in an interview to The World According to Wrestling
