Kurt Angle Wishes He Could Have Done More With Team Angle, Talks Working With The Rock & Shawn Michaels

– Kurt Angle did a Q&A during an appearance at iPlay America in Freehold, New Jersey over the weekend. Here are some highlights, courtesy of The Wrestling eState…

On Wanting To Be Steve Austin & Working With the Rock & HBK: “I started watching after I met with Vince and these wrestlers looked like incredible athletes. I became a huge fan of Stone Cold Steve Austin. He was the reason I called WWE back up in the end of 1998. I said listen, I want to be that guy. (laughs) For him, it wasn’t about winning or losing. If he was going to lose, there had to be a good reason. I understood that. Steve didn’t have an ego – he wouldn’t have a problem losing to the right guy. He was always right about that. Another guy that didn’t have a problem losing was The Rock. He always did business. Shawn Michaels, I remember at WrestleMania 21 (applause) Vince didn’t have a winner. He left it up to us. Shawn said ‘well, you know, you win because you’re going to have a program with Dave Batista next so I want you to look good in this match.” I was like, wow. He didn’t have to do that. I thought that was really cool of Shawn.”

On Team Angle: “The crazy thing about that is because I broke my neck, that whole faction never had a chance. I wish we could have done it for a few years. I didn’t really get to know Shelton and Charlie that well. The faction only lasted six months. It was horrible. It really sucks because we could have done a great job with Team Angle. “They were both incredible and I take part of the blame for them not growing the way they could have as wrestlers. I know Shelton kind of broke out and got a little bit bigger than Charlie, but they should have had much better careers and I take part of the blame for that.”