Kurt Angle

[Tetsujin]

What's the Angle/Mysterio match from Japan? Never heard of it before, it's not on cagematch either. Was it while on a WWE tour, or working for another company after 2006?

[BigBadMick]

Smackdown 10th February 2005.

 

Haven't seen it in years, but I remember enjoying it

[BigBadMick]

I'm watching a lot of WWF 2000-2001 at the moment.

 

Would it be inconceivable that Angle was better in those years than when he seemed to be given agency to call his matches more in later years?

[ohtani's jacket]

What I'd like to know is who do people wish Angle wrestled like? Do people wish he was more like Jack Brisco or Bret Hart? Do they want him to be like Nick Bockwinkel? Buddy Rose? Billy Robinson? It's confusing. Some people like him as the goofy, three Is guy. Some people like him as a wrestling machine. Do folks want him to be Bryan Danielson? Ric Flair? 

I don't get it. The guy by all rights should have been a bust, but he became a star. It's always like this with the polarizing types whether it's Shawn Michaels, Manami Toyota, Keiji Mutoh or Hiroshi Tanahashi. They don't do this, they don't work like this wrestler, they're not as good as this person... At some point you need to accept them for who they are. 

[Childs]

During this burst of Angle discourse, it hit me that I've hardly watched him in the last 10 years. Even during the last GWE, he wasn't someone I looked at with any focus. Might take a spin through a few matches just to see what I think of him now. I guess the greater point is that it's easy to become frozen in positions from decades-old debates.