Below are some top WWE news stories of the day, involving Kurt Angle and Hulk Hogan.
• On his podcast, Kurt Angle (who retired in 2019) revealed that he would be open to returning to WWE for a new role under a couple of conditions:
“Would I consider managing? Yeah, it would have to be the right thing. It would have to be the right deal and the right program. Not only that, but the money has to be right.”
Angle then talked about turning down WWE’s offer to be Matt Riddle’s manager:
“I feel a little bad about doing this, but a few years ago, WWE wanted me to manage Matt Riddle. And, you know, I was into it. I was like, ‘Okay!’ because we could have some great vignettes, you know, him being a lot like RVD.
So, I think we could have had great chemistry. But it just didn’t happen, unfortunately, because they didn’t offer me the right amount of money. The money they offered me was really not good.”
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• Hulk Hogan recently praised fellow WWE Hall of Famer Goldberg for their historic and lucrative run together in WCW. Goldberg’s most notable victory came in 1998 when he defeated Hogan in the Georgia Dome to win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. Goldberg’s undefeated streak ended later that year when Kevin Nash, with the help of Scott Hall and a cattle prod, defeated him.
In an interview with SK Wrestling, Hogan discussed WCW’s downfall and Turner/AOL’s decision to move away from wrestling, then spoke about Goldberg’s impact:
“You could say, ‘Well, Goldberg should have never been beat. He was an attraction.’ From the movie industry to the entertainment industry, a lot of Jewish people were probably upset because this was the first time we ever had a 300-pound T-Rex killer. He was the second coming of Hulk Hogan as far as an attraction went.”
Hogan believes that attractions like Goldberg should be booked differently and suggested that Goldberg’s undefeated streak should have continued:
“It’s almost like a mid-card mentality that you need to have the babyface chase the belt. That’s not attraction mentality. That’s standard rasslin’ mentality.
I think Goldberg should have still been undefeated. That might have been one of the things that would have kept the revenue stream coming in, but decisions were made, and different people were in control of the pie.”
