On an episode of his podcast, Kurt Angle was asked who he would pick as the greatest professional wrestler of all time. Here’s what the WWF Legend replied:
“It is Bret Hart because I believe that he’s the greatest wrestler of all time. I believe that with his in-ring performance, there’s nobody better. I would say Shawn Michaels and Chris Benoit are close, even myself, but I still put Bret up there.
Don’t get me wrong, a Ric Flair needs to be up there too because he’s The Man. Ric was a great wrestler and could get people interested in the psychology of the match, but he was also very entertaining. He took a lot of crazy Ric Flair bumps, you knew what he was going to do and you wanted him to do it.
Bret Hart was just the best overall technician I have ever seen in my life. I did contact Bret. I called him and said, ‘Hey, I want to wrestle you at WrestleMania 18, I think it would be a dream match. You won’t have to do any of the work, I’ll do all the bumping and selling.’ He immediately said no.
I understand now, later on in my career, I started losing a step and I didn’t like what I saw.
When you get older and you start slowing down, you can’t put on the performance that you did in your prime, you don’t want to do it anymore.
A lot of athletes have a lot of pride and I have a lot of pride and Bret does too.
He doesn’t want to wrestle Kurt Angle unless he can perform like he’s in his prime so I get why he said no.”
Kurt Angle retired from pro-wrestling in 2019, after he lost his WrestleMania 35 match against Baron Corbin.
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