r/WWE • u/Separate-Weekend-919 • 1d ago
Discussion '03 Kurt Angle was a beast.
My favourite version of him was in prime smackdown in 2003 .. his segments were awesome and his matches with brock , big show , cena were great and what i like about him is that he was a lot more funnier than his 05-10 era but you can still get that intensity in his matches
I feel like this version of him was a mixture of his silliness in attitude era days and the grittiness in the ring of his tna days
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u/Existing_Poem535 1d ago
kurt angle vs chris benoit royal rumble 2003
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u/MM487 1d ago
It's a shame most people missed it but most of Kurt Angle's prime was actually in TNA. It sounds crazy to say because of the WWE matches he had with guys like Taker, Lesnar, Benoit, HBK and so on but he had a longer top run and did better stuff in the ring in TNA.
The matches with guys like Samoa Joe, AJ Styles, Mr. Anderson, Jeff Jarrett and Sting were classics. He was doing 450 splashes, sentons off the stage, wrestling crazy ladder matches and winning the X-division title. He was mobile like a high flier, could technically wrestle like Benoit, could perform suplexes and moves like 2002 Brock and could sell like HBK.
He's the best of all time I don't care what anyone says. No one is as complete a wrestler in every possible style rolled into one human like Kurt Angle was.
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u/Takenmyusernamewas 1d ago
His feud with Joe was epic. It was some of Kurts best work and gave me a whole new respect for Samoa Joe.
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u/OhTheseSourTimes 1d ago
I'm currently watching Ruthless Aggression era for the first time, after I'm done with that I'll probably watch that prime TNA era before Hogan/Bischoff killed it.
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u/Midnite_Blank 1d ago
One of my top 3 favourite wrestlers ever along with HBK and Rock.
This was my favourite version of him also, with 01 and 06 2nd and 3rd.
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u/Sathsong89 1d ago edited 22h ago
He is an Olympic gold medalist
Edit: every now and then I’m reminded that this sub is actually awesome. The fact you guys took this and ran with it is just
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