Mike Chioda Recalls Refereeing Shane McMahon vs. Kurt Angle At WWE King Of the Ring 2001

Mike Chioda officiated the famed match between Shane McMahon and Kurt Angle at WWE King Of the Ring 2001, something he recently looked back on. Chioda reflected on the match in his appearance on Insight With Chris Van Vliet and more. You can see the highlights below:

On whether he has retired: “Pretty much, yeah. I mean, if there’s a match or two, or something like that, I’ll do here and there. Ric Flair’s Last Match I did, I had done a match in the Jersey Shore for Fight Factory and for New Jersey. So it was nice to get down there, and those guys are great at Fight Factory. So it’s really pick and choose, but I’m doing seminars, training refs in Orlando, doing a bunch of and signings and stuff. And the podcast, yeah, Monday Mailbag with Mike Chioda, with Conrad Thompson, on ad-free shows. They’ve been great to me for four and a half years, five years almost.”

On Shane McMahon vs. Kurt Angle at King of the Ring: “I knew Shane was a tough cookie. He’s always been a tough kid, always a tough guy. I know he was gonna be all right, beside the cuts, the glass and all that. I wasn’t calling that match. Vince was screaming in the background, cussing. Jerry Briscoe, everybody was cussing, but I wasn’t going to stop the match, that’s for sure. They’re like, ‘Don’t throw him through the glass.’ I’m yelling at Kurt. I’m screaming at Kurt, ‘Don’t do it again. Don’t do it again.’ And later on, I said, ‘Kurt, I was screaming at you.’ He goes, ‘Was it on this side?’ I said, yeah, it was on the right side. He goes, ‘Oh, I’m sorry. I’m kind of Deaf in that ear.’ I’m like, so the other ear didn’t hear me?

“That glass was not breaking that easy I tell you that. I mean, Vince was so hot. I remember Vince left Shane. Shane had to take his own ride back to Connecticut. I remember Linda coming up because I held that board up top when he gives Shane the angle Slam, he had this little piece of board and was slipping off the rope with both of them up there. And I’m over there holding it like this as much as I can, just so they can get that spot off. And I remember Linda pointing that out to me, and she goes, Great job, Mike. Thank you for holding that board, because I seen that. She was you didn’t hold that board. They were collapsing. And I’m like, no problem. And that’s it’s my job to be out there and do what I got to do, you know, to help out Shane and the match itself.”

On the Shane McMahon body check bump: “Shane rocked me, man, I remember maybe I was like a foot away from the steps. And same with Charles. I was like, holy sh*t. I’m like, you know, they bought that bump back. So that was awesome.”