Kurt Angle Would Love One Last WWE Match With This Champion

Kurt Angle is back in WWE for a Hall of Fame induction. That’s huge, long-awaited news, but wrestling fans still have one more very big question–will Angle return to the ring in WWE?

The answer to that question is still a resounding “we don’t know.” Following the announcement of his induction, Angle appeared on Lilian Garcia’s Making Their Way To The Ring, where he answered questions about his future.

“I’m in a great place in my life,” said Angle. “I talk to people and they’re like, hey why don’t you come back and wrestle? No, no, I’m in a good place right now. I’m OK with not being Kurt Angle the wrestler anymore. I’m just happy being who I am. I think that people don’t know how to just accept who they are and be happy with who they are.”

But does that mean he’s officially done in the ring? “I can’t really say. But if I am, I’m OK with it…I will tell you this, Lilian. That’s the only reason I would do it. I will not do it for myself. I would do it for you and the fans out there. It’s no longer about me.”

If that one more match were to happen, who would Angle want for an opponent? Someone very familiar to him, it turns out.

“The one that I would really love to have a final match with right now is the kid that’s the hottest right now in WWE and that’s AJ Styles. I wrestled AJ in TNA, and I can tell you that he is every bit as good as Shawn Michaels. The thing with AJ Styles, and I want everybody to realize this–you don’t have to do anything with him. He does all the work. So it’s an easy match for you. He flies around the ring. He does all the bumping. AJ is a special individual where you can go in that ring and literally just stand in the middle and he does everything for you. I have never had a match with anybody that’s been so easy, and every time I worked with him it was a five star match. So AJ’s that kind of talent. He only comes around once in a lifetime, so I’d really love to shake it up with him one more time if I could.”

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Angle also spoke frankly about the drug addiction that plagued the later part of his career, and how it got started.

“For me it was my injuries. It was my injuries and also being in a pretty bad marriage at the time. I didn’t want to feel anything. But breaking my neck again in WWE I started on pain killers. The first pill I took I loved it. I loved how it made me feel. It made me feel indestructible. The more I took, I kept getting injured. You know, Lilian. I broke my neck four times in two and a half years. I just got more and more depressed. It was like, why is this happening to me? I didn’t want to feel the pain anymore. I felt like my career was being taken away from me.”

Do you think Styles is the best candidate for Angle’s retirement match? Or do you think the Olympic Gold Medalist should be wrestling at all? Let us know in the comments below, or on Facebook!

(Thanks to WrestlingInc for the transcript.)