You may notice that all but one of these picks are opponents that Lesnar hasn’t faced previously, so no Samoa Joe, AJ Styles, Randy Orton or Drew McIntyre. With the match against Reigns likely being planned for next year’s WrestleMania, here are a possible ten superstars that Lesnar could face during his time on the SmackDown brand. Lesnar is reportedly available for at least eight matches, possibly as many as twelve in total, and one guaranteed match is seemingly against current WWE Universal Champion, Roman Reigns. Reports were quickly released discussing whether it was in response to CM Punk debuting for All Elite Wrestling, but regardless, this was a big moment for WWE. for the transcription.As SummerSlam 2021 ended, fans were left shellshocked at the return of Brock Lesnar, Viking ponytail and beard included. If you use any of the quotes in this article, please credit The Kurt Angle Podcast with a h/t to Wrestling Inc. That comes first before friendship, so I’m sure Brock and I, if they would’ve gave us the right figure, we probably would’ve went at it.” Sometimes it kind of sucks, you can’t take that personally because you’re trying to provide money to take care of them. “But if the money were right, I know he would want to fight me and I know I would want to fight him too. “I would not want to fight Brock out of respect for him and the friendship we had,” Angle said. Angle stated that both he and Lesnar would’ve taken the money and fought each other even though they were great friends. With that in mind, Angle talked about the prospects of what a UFC fight between him and Lesnar would’ve looked like after he left the WWE. The former Olympic Gold Medalist spoke about his relationship with Lesnar to this day on a previous podcast, and also mentioned how it’s always going to be money first and passion second for the former UFC Champion. That’s when I dropped the title because they wanted me to hold it a lot longer, and I said I’m going to drop it the next time I wrestle in Japan.” Even when I continued to defend it, I think I did three more times, TNA was getting that money, and that’s when I put a stop to it. TNA got paid for those events because they were paying me, so I didn’t see any money from the event in New Japan. “We were good friends, very close, and if he wanted me to come over and do that for him, I would. That was his idea and I told him I would do it. Brock wanted me to come over to Japan to wrestle him so he could lose to me, and I would end up losing to somebody over in Japan. I heard Brock was stripped of that title but he wasn’t stripped because I beat him for that title. “I guess he didn’t want to do a job for anybody over in Japan and he was the IWGP Champion. “He called me out of the blue,” Angle said. After Lesnar won the title and held it for two years, Angle revealed his old friend called him to come to New Japan to win the belt from him. When Angle left the WWE in 2006, Lesnar was still out of the company at the time and joined NJPW for a two year stint where he became the IWGP World Champion. Of all the highlights of Angles career, his rivalry with Brock Lesnar that led into the main event of WrestleMania XIX has to be near the top of his career, where Angle actually thought Lesnar had “died” during the match on Shooting Star Press. I wrote down my figure and the next day they said ‘We’ll fly you up and sign you.’ No negotiations, it was just a one time thing and I got what I wanted.”
It was relatively easy and painless, the quickest deal I ever did.
They told me to write down a figure and they would reach out to me the next day and see if we could make it work. “Then Jeff ended up calling me and we discussed the possibility of working together. “Dixie Carter, she called me and we talked on the phone,” Angle said. Angle also revealed that his contract with TNA was the “quickest deal” he had ever done with a company up until this point. Speaking on the latest episode of The Kurt Angle Podcast, The former Olympic Gold Medalist revealed who was the first person to contact him from TNA about signing with the company. After leaving the WWE in 2006 due to several reasons, Kurt Angle shocked the world and signed with TNA wrestling where he would then spend the next 11 years of his illustrious career.
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