Kurt Angle was recently interviewed by Chris Van Vliet. During this, he spoke about a time where Vince McMahon challenged him to a fight backstage.
Back in 2006, Angle was dealing with multiple injuries and developed an addiction to painkillers. This led to Angle sending some aggressive text messages to Vince while he was blacked out.
Here is what he said (h/t to Fightful for the quotes below):
“Vince has always been a father figure to me. I never wanted to intentionally hurt him. I’ll give you a quick story. [In 2006], I decided to quit and my manager and I made the trip to headquarters and I injured myself real badly, my hamstring and groin. There was blood across my genitals, my hamstring, both legs on the inside and I’m bruising. It was really bad. I showed it to Vince when we had a meeting and I said, ‘We need to talk because I’m not doing really well.’ So he pulls out about five typed pages of text messages and phone call messages that I left them and I’m reading them and it says, ‘Vince, I’m going to beat the sh*t out of you when I see you,’ ‘Vince, you better answer my calls or I’m going to kick your ass.’ Really crazy stuff. I don’t remember it. Unfortunately, I was taking painkillers and every once in a while, I would black out and here I am texting Vince,”
Angle continued, saying that Vince challenged him to a fight:
“He stood up and he took his jacket off and he said, ‘You want to kick my ass? Let’s go right now.’ I looked at him and thought, ‘Oh my God. Vince McMahon wants to beat my ass.’ This has been a guy who’s been my father figure for the past seven years and I have too much respect for him to stand up. But he wanted to go. I left the room and I came back and I just broke down. I said, ‘Vince, I can’t do this anymore.’ I need you to release me. He did. It had to be done to save my life,”
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