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On Kurt Angle:
Was he ever really that big a draw? I remember hearing something about things starting to go downhill when they didn't commit to him being the top heel and pulled Stephanie away from him in that love triangle angle. Television ratings remained strong, but I was just wondering about Kurt as a draw. He was arguably the top star, along with Brock Lesnar, when SmackDown out-drew RAW.
When he and Samoa Joe did that MMA-style Cage Match in TNA, I thought that would be a cool way to "re-invent" Kurt Angle. Give him a more bad-ass and grizzled look. But regardless, the singlet aesthetic doesn't really soften Kurt up too much. He was basically gold for his entire WWE career, and he never felt flat like Jericho did in 2001, 2002 and bits of 2004 and 2005. People forget that.
If you could put Angle through some sort of recovery machine, where his body is fully restored, I think you'd have to be an idiot not to take him over most other people. He's going to need a Bret Hart, Steve Austin, Rock or Hulk Hogan to dethrone him in here. Or Shawn Michaels or Ric Flair, I guess. You're in for some very exciting match-ups.
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