Angle-Lesnar update

[Guest humongous2002]

For everyone who has asked about why Kurt Angle can work against Brock Lesnar next week, but not work at WrestleMania, here is the scoop. Due to his serious neck injury, Angle is very limited in what he can do in the ring now. Basically, he doesn't have a PPV quality match in him, but he can do enough for a TV match, especially if gaga is booked around it. So, I don't expect to see Angle do a whole lot on TV next week in the match against Lesnar. As it stands now, if I was a betting man, I would lay my money on a Lesnar-Chris Benoit match for WrestleMania.

 

 

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[Invictus 0]

Unbelievable. Kurt's just going to end up hurting himself worse.

[Guest Vern Gagne]

What does Angle have to gain by having a match next week.

[Guest nikowwf]

Why does everyone look at Dave saying he's not going to do much and they are going to book a lot of crap around it as Angle is going to do too much and get hurt?

 

niko

[Guest The Tino Standard]

I still don't think that match is going to happen. Angle is going to get taken out or something before the match and will have to forfeit his title.

 

They are not going to give an Angle-Lesnar match away on Free TV just to transition the title. If anything, by delaying the match a year, the buildup and anticipation will be even greater.

 

This is too big of a match to be given away in a half-assed sports entertainment segment on Smackdown. Wait a year and do it right.

[Guest Vern Gagne]

I don't doubt that Angle will be protected next week. It's still a risk having Angle wrestle with a serious neck injury.

[Guest Rob Edwards]

all they have to do is have Benoit hit him with a chair into an F5, shouldn't cause any neck trauma if Brock modifies it slightly

[Guest Austin3164life]

I think Angle should relinquish it in a speech to get the crowd behind him. He really should turn face, and a farewell speech (a la HBK with the "Lost my smile" promo) would get the fans behind him. They should have Angle at least go out on a good note, and have the fans wanting him to come back from the beginning.

[Guest crandamaniac]

Here's an Idea, you can have Angle come to the ring. He could give a really heartfelt interview about his injuries and says that he's going to do the right thing and pass the belt to a worthy opponent. Then you can have Team Angle come out (one dressed in the TA uniform, the other in ref strips). Angle lays down, one of the guys pins him, while the other counts. Then you have the standard TA celebration.

 

While celebrating, Steph can come out, rule the title vacant, and declare a mini-tournament between Team Angle, Brock and Benoit. Brock and Benoit could go over in there matches, setting up a pretty good match for Wrestlemania. I really don't think they should turn him face as he was starting to hit his stride as a heel.

[Guest Quik]

I think the main thing everyone seems to forget is that he can't just take any neck bumps... just the shock of taking a knee bump alone can fuck up his neck further.

[Guest crandamaniac]

That's what's so good about my idea, all he has to do is lay down. He can preach about how much integrity he has, then lay down, making himself to be a slimy heel. Then when he does come back, he can go after whoever has the belt, saying it's his belt, he never lost it or anything.

[Guest Brian]

If Angle attempts to get out of the match, he's going to be seen as chickenshit no matter how heartfelt and honest he is, and he'll get "what"s like crazy.

[Guest notJames]

Plus the whole "fingerpoke of doom" angle reeks of desperation and lack of ingenuity. On top of that, ruling titles vacant is the worst deus ex machina of them all. You do it once, who's to say Steph doesn't start stripping titles off of guys at random, citing some obscure ruling or blaming it on PMS (for which she's already set a couple of months ago recently)?

 

If Angle can go, I say go. It doesn't have to be a long match, but the title should change hands in the ring.

[Guest Goodear]

I think its important to note that a year from now when Angle comes back again, no one is going to really care what happened when he left. It'll be a case of "OMG Kurt's back! YAY (or BOOO as the case may be)". So it doesn't exactly matter if they job him out or not other than as far as his health is concerned.

[Invictus 0]

If he absolutely must wrestle, at least give him the opportunity to explain his injury sometime in the evening so the fans know what's what. Because this squash match with Lesnar is just going to leave him looking like a joke going out, the fans should at least know why so he doesn't lose all credibility.

 

They've painted him into a corner so badly, no matter what he does he'll look like a weak coward. Stupid WWE.

[Guest notJames]

Too true. If they had just given Angle the upper hand at least once against Lesnar, we wouldn't have to worry about his credibility.

[Guest crandamaniac]

Too true. If they had just given Angle the upper hand at least once against Lesnar, we wouldn't have to worry about his credibility

 

If he had one defeat over Lesnar, he could just say "Ha! I beat you, I"m better then you, I proved it" then do the Team Angle scenario I laid out earler

[Invictus 0]

If you want to do "woulda, coulda, shoulda's", Kurt should have just left to train for the Olympics instead of this garbage title run. Real great reward for staying loyal to the company.

 

Kurt should pull a Stone Cold.

[Guest nikowwf]

I'm confused...how is the WWE punishing Kurt? By not stopping the company while he is gone? By allowing him to drop his title in the ring? (This is Kurt people. He probably wants to do it)

 

i dont get it

 

unless you are complaining about the angle which has not even came yet

niko

[Invictus 0]

I'm just complaining about the way his feud against Brock Lesnar (and his title run in general) has been handled. I'm not saying he's being punished (we don't know exactly what goes on backstage) but he certainly was never pushed as a credible champion in the face of Brock Lesnar. He didn't go over Lesnar ONCE. Week after week he (with 2 bodyguards no less) was ravaged by Lesnar with relative ease.

 

Kurt should have just left for the Olympics and left this crap feud for someone else.

[Guest Goodear]

Yes I am sure the WWE would be sad to see him disapear for six months... since he's hurt anyway for a year, who would know?

[Guest Anglesault]

Why does everyone look at Dave saying he's not going to do much and they are going to book a lot of crap around it as Angle is going to do too much and get hurt?

 

niko

He's not exactly in there with Mr. Gentle.

 

And Angle should have just left for Greece or wherever the fuck the Olympics are as soon as they presented this scenario to him to try and get him to stay.

[Guest Brian]

It's a case of money and security, plus pride. He would have been putting alot on the line going back, and it probably would have been (at his age and do to his WWE work) a big risk.

[Guest Anglesault]

Fine. Then he should have, at the very least, held out until Vince gave him an acceptable scenario.

 

Actually, I fully believe that the original plan was the logical one (Equal going into the show, who is better, who will win?) because it's in both Raw and WWF magazine that way. Some asshole had it changed. One has to wonder, if that piece of shit didn't change it, would Angle have gotten hurt?

[Guest Brian]

Probably eventually. Those matches and some of those bumps were going to catch up to him, plus the prior neck injury.

[Guest Anglesault]

Remember, we don't know what matches were planned in the good feud. A whole different scenario. I'm not saying that brock throwing him around is what did it, I'm saying that the feud would be much different.

[Guest The_Radical]

I'm just complaining about the way his feud against Brock Lesnar (and his title run in general) has been handled. I'm not saying he's being punished (we don't know exactly what goes on backstage) but he certainly was never pushed as a credible champion in the face of Brock Lesnar. He didn't go over Lesnar ONCE. Week after week he (with 2 bodyguards no less) was ravaged by Lesnar with relative ease.

 

Kurt should have just left for the Olympics and left this crap feud for someone else.

Never going over Lesnar notwithstanding, I still can't believe they put Lesnar/Benoit over the Tag Team and World Champions at NWO...way to build up that credibility guys!!

[Guest Brian]

I'm thinking it was a combination of the previou neck injury, the brawling and bumping, and the suplexes that put him out, so eventually it would have caught up to him.

[Guest Rob Edwards]

It's a wear and tear injury, Kurt would have come out the same, it might have happened earlier because he'd have had to work more that way

[Guest Anglesault]

I'm thinking it was a combination of the previou neck injury, the brawling and bumping, and the suplexes that put him out, so eventually it would have caught up to him.

He might have made Mania.