
TNA wrestler Kurt Angle is featured on the cover of the latest issue of Fighting Spirit Magazine. The headline on the cover reads Kurt Angle: "I Gave You Seven Years Of My Life. Five Broken Necks. F**K You Vince". You can see the cover at this link. They have an interview with Angle, which is where they got the quote from. "In WWE, I asked for that I asked to go part time like those guys and Vince said, "I can't do it. We have five hours of programming youre too important. Well, screw you, Vince. I gave you seven years of my life. Five broken necks. F**k you. At that stage I was already talking to Dixie, so I knew I was leaving and going to a better place, and TNA has exploded."
Angle also talks about being bored in WWE when he was under contract to them, and checking out the competition. Angle reveals what McMahon said to him when he said that WWE should use lightweight wrestlers such as AJ Styles and Chris Sabin instead of the likes of Batista. "At that point WWE was so stagnant. I was wrestling the same guys all the time and I was bored. I started watching TNA and I was like, "Oh my God, just look at AJ Styles! Look at Abyss! Look at Samoa Joe, hes awesome! Look at Chris Sabin or Alex Shelley or even Sonjay Dutt! I wanna wrestle these guys! Why dont we have guys like these in WWE?" So I asked, "Vince what are you doing? Why are we picking up guys like Batista, who are 65", 300 pounds and cant even wrestle?" This was back when he couldnt wrestle he can now. I was saying, "Why dont we pick up AJ hes only 190 pounds but he's f**king awesome!" And Vince was like, "Kurt, youre the real deal, so you can be 510", 200 pounds, but we need the big guys." "No we dont, Vince dont discriminate! Let a 59" guy win the title!"
Angle also talks about why Chris Jericho will never join the upper echelon in WWE (saying McMahon is holding Jericho down to his height), Brock Lesnar in UFC, Karen Angle, and more. Also in the interview, Angle forgets the name of The Great Khali; "Kalip or Dalip or whatever."
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