WWE Was Unsure About Retirement Match For Top Star

While speaking to Conrad Thompson on his new Kurt Angle show podcast, WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle has opened up about his retirement match against Baron Corbin at WrestleMania 35 in 2019.

Kurt Angle explained that thinks WWE was unsure about who to have him face in his retirement match, explaining that the company saw his bout with King Corbin as a “good filler match” for the show:

“I don’t think they knew I was going to wrestle Corbin at WrestleMania. I think what they did is they knew I was going to retire. I don’t know if I was going to be on WrestleMania. If I didn’t go to Vince and say I wanted to retire at WrestleMania, I think this was a last minute decision to put me on the card. They didn’t know who to put me with. I was doing a program with Baron even though we finished it because he beat me clean. They decided to do it again at WrestleMania. I think they killed two birds with one stone. They got my retirement match on WrestleMania and they got a good filler match in between two main event matches. I really believe that my match was honestly a filler match. When you go under six minutes at WrestleMania and you’re on 14th position and you’re after Batista vs HHH and you’re on before the main event, it’s a tough spot. Not having a lot of time, you know you’re the filler match and that’s what it is.”

Many people were hoping that Kurt Angle would face John Cena in his final match, which would have been a mirroring on Cena’s first match with WWE in 2002 being against Angle, but the former WWE Champion was instead defeated by Baron Corbin.

Kurt Angle also recently revealed that Vince McMahon punished a popular WWE Raw star for six months last year for disobeying instructions that were given to him, which you can read more about by clicking here.

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Thanks to Ringside News for the transcription.

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