Kurt Angle, the WWE Hall of Famer recalled his early days in WWE on Steve Austin’s Broken Skulls Sessions. He spoke about his relationship that he shared with Vince McMahon.
Kurt Angle on Vince McMahon : I had a father-son relationship
Kurt Angle had refused WWE’s 10-year offer but later contacted the company after a couple of years. He went on to become one of the top stars of the company. Vince McMahon was influential on the Hall of Famer as they shared a cordial relationship.
Kurt Angle said:
“Well, with Vince, it was always good. The good thing about him is he not only gave me good advice, he treated me well. He pulled me aside, he’d tell me when did I screw up and he would correct me. I know he had this with a lot of people, but I felt like I had a father-son relationship and I liked it. The only thing I didn’t like about it is I wasn’t that business savvy. So sometimes, I didn’t think I got as much as I should have and because they came up with my character and my everything, I didn’t have ideas for merchandise. ‘It’s true. It’s true’ worked, but they couldn’t use Olympics. They couldn’t use the Gold medal.”
Kurt Angle regrets not having a business mind
Kurt Angle talked about when he had a conversation about WWE merchandise with Vince. But, the Olympic Gold Medalist could not use the gold medals and the word ‘ ‘Olympics’.
He said:
“One day, Vince told me – I said I wanted to make more money with merch. He said, ‘You can’t’. I said, ‘Why not?’ He said, ‘Well, we can’t use the word Olympics and we can’t do anything with Gold medals. So, I pay you to wrestle.’ And I said, ‘Well, I liked to get paid more to wrestle’. But I didn’t have a business mind and I wish I would have come with it. You [Steve Austin] did, Cena did, The Rock did. It seemed like you guys knew exactly what to do at the right times. I didn’t do that.”
