WWE Hall Of Famer Discusses Nixed Plans To Team With Brother

A popular Hall of Famer has recalled scrapped storyline plans for him to form a tag-team with his brother in WWE.

Kurt Angle had success in the WWE tag team division, winning gold alongside Chris Benoit. Angle has recently revealed that he was originally going to have a tag-team run with his brother, Eric Angle.

Eric Angle made his first WWE appearance at Survivor Series 2000, helping his brother to retain the WWE Championship. He was then signed to the developmental Ohio Valley Wrestling, before being forced to quit wrestling in 2003 due to injury.

Kurt Angle has revealed that there were plans for him to team with his brother before his injury. Speaking on the Kurt Angle Show, Angle recalled:

  “That was the plan. They wanted Eric and I to tag together, they thought if Eric improved enough he’d be a great tag team partner for me, we could have a good run as a tag team for a while. Unfortunately he got hurt and it never transpired.”

Eric Angle got an infection when recovering from surgery, prior to the end of his career. Revealing that WWE paid for his brother’s surgery, Kurt Angle said:

“My brother was getting it, he just wasn’t getting it as quickly as I did. I think the company was comparing him to me, but he was getting it, he was learning, he was improving dramatically. The unfortunate incident of him tearing his tricep, (he) tore the tendon right off the bone from his arm and he had to have surgery. When he had the surgery, the doctor performed surgery the next day and my brother was in excruciating pain.”

“He went back to the hospital and said ‘There’s something going on in my arm, I need to take this cast off’. (The doctor) said ‘Don’t worry, it’s just from the surgery, the pain will go away,’ so the next day (my brother) went back to the hospital and said the same thing. They told him to go home, don’t worry about it, go rest. The third day, (my brother) didn’t have a saw, and he wanted to saw off the cast himself so he went to the Home Depot and sawed off the cast.”

“What he did, he looked at the incision and there was a huge infection. He pushed on the incision and all this yellow and red puss came out. He went directly to the hospital after the Home Depot and he said ‘Look, I told you there was an infection.’ The hospital to protect their ass and for liability said in the report that my brother sawed off his cast and got the infection by sawing off his cast.

“You don’t get an infection in 10 minutes, he was at the Home Depot 10 minutes prior to when he went to the hospital and they did that to cover their ass and it ended my brother’s career. He couldn’t sue the doctor or the hospital, WWE let him go, and thank god they paid for his surgery before they let him go which was pretty cool.”

Eric Angle’s last appearance in WWE saw him assist his brother ahead of Brock Lesnar vs Kurt Angle at WrestleMania XIX.

Quotes via Wrestling Inc.

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