Kurt Angle Thinks He Would Have Been The Greatest Of All Time If He Hadn't Left WWE

If you were to call Kurt Angle the greatest professional wrestler of all time then few would argue, and the Olympic gold medallist’s transition to ‘sports entertainment’ in the late 90s saw him become one of the most well-rounded performers of all time.

After a title-laden run in WWE, Angle would depart for TNA, where he would win a litany of titles including the IWGP Heavyweight Championship in the Inoki Genome Federation. However, according to Angle himself on the Kurt Angle Show podcast, he believes his exit from WWE prevents him from taking ‘GOAT’ status:

"This is a really, really difficult question because I don't regret going to TNA," said Angle when asked if he’d change anything if he did his career over. "I absolutely love TNA. I loved my 11 years there. You know, I probably would have stayed if the money didn't run out, but I knew it was my time to go back to WWE and I wanted to finish my career where I started. But when I go back, the one thing I would love to change is I wish I didn't get injured so much because that's what caused my painkiller problem and then my painkiller problem caused me to leave the WWE because I felt like if I wasn't gonna leave, I was gonna end up doing something pretty bad, which was overdose on painkillers. So I thought it was right for me to leave, but if I wouldn't have left the WWE and I would have wrestled there 20 straight years, I really believe to this day I'd be the greatest of all time."

H/T: WrestlingNews.co

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