Former WWE Star Talks Threatening To Beat Up Vince McMahon

Former WWE Champion Kurt Angle has opened up about threatening to beat up WWE Chairman Vince McMahon back in 2006.

Speaking on his Kurt Angle Show Podcast, the former Raw General Manager explained that his “behaviour became erratic” in 2006, so much so that he sent Vince McMahon messages “threatening to beat him up”.

“Well up until 2006 we were pretty close but my behaviour became erratic. I started behaving out of control, sending Vince text messages threatening to beat him up. I mean, it was crazy. You know, I had the painkiller problem that nobody knew about. I was injured so much and I couldn’t take any time off because a lot of the other talent were injured, a lot of the top guys. So I was kinda there to keep the product intact and mentally I was losing it. I was texting Vince more and more. He wouldn’t respond so that would p*ss me off even more. After I joined ECW it got even worse.”

Kurt Angle has been pretty open about his prior issues with painkiller addiction, and he explained that this was why his behaviour was so “out of control” at the time.

When Conrad Thompson pressed Kurt Angle about why he wanted to beat up Vince McMahon, Angle revealed that it was because the Chairman wouldn’t get back to him:

“He wouldn’t get back to me. I understand why now. I wasn’t making any sense. When I went to a meeting with Vince when I decided to leave after ECW in 2006, he had a whole list of text messages, and I’m sitting reading them thinking ‘gosh, I don’t remember texting this.’ It was really graphic, ‘I’m gonna beat the sh*t out of you’ and some of the texts didn’t make sense. I was probably high on painkillers when I was sending them. It was just ridiculous. I was in awe looking at them thinking ‘holy crap, I don’t remember saying any of this stuff. It was just a bad situation.”

Thanks to Inside The Ropes for the transcription.

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