Kurt Angle Calls Brock Lesnar A "Mental Midget", Talks About Cena

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MMANews.com reader Tyler Millwood sent along the following:

This morning Kurt Angle was a guest on a local radio show, via telephone, building up hype for the upcoming TNA Wrestling pay-per view here in South Carolina. After discussing the PPV for a few moments he was asked about his wife and said she was recovering nicely.

Briefly they discussed WWE and how they liked to over work talents such as Angle and John Cena. Angle said he told Cena that he was going to overexert himself and believes that is why so many talents are getting injured. Angle also said that when he worked for WWE that he would only get to come home about five days in a month.

Then they asked him about Brock Lesnar and Kurt surprisingly semi-complimented him by saying he was a good in ring competitor but then stated that he was a "mental midget," claiming Lesnar could not do well under pressure. On Lesnar's matches in MMA, Kurt predicted Lesnar would win if there was little to no pressure on him. It was a fairly short interview and unfortunately they have not posted the podcast on their site yet.

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I Think Angle Is Right wwe really need to stop doing so many shows

 

[Kaedon]

Are you kidding me? Wrestlers used to wrestle anywhere from 275-360 days a year. Now they work 250 at the most. They DO work less, but if you dont have the passion for it, which obviously Kurt doesn't, you will complain about being over worked.

 

[Tsaalyo Phoenix]

Agree with Angle, WWE pushes their superstars way too hard. Only coming home 5 days in a month?? That's insane.

 

[monkeystyle]

Agree with Angle, WWE pushes their superstars way too hard. Only coming home 5 days in a month?? That's insane.

Sure, forget about the fact that they know what the schedule is like going into wrestling, and then making that conscious decision to do so. They know precisely what they're getting into.

Not to mention most wrestlers probably wouldn't want that much of a lighter schedule anyway. Less shows = less money.

 

[Tsaalyo Phoenix]

Sure, forget about the fact that they know what the schedule is like going into wrestling, and then making that conscious decision to do so. They know precisely what they're getting into.

Not to mention most wrestlers probably wouldn't want that much of a lighter schedule anyway. Less shows = less money.

So if you want to make any money being a professional wrestler you're forced to work damn near every day of the month, never seeing your family? And you seriously support this? You stand by WWE's work schedule? You stand by never seeing your family? How about you actually reply to the thread with your own feelings rather than jumping on my posts every chance you get? This is getting really tiring, having a 25 year old administrator trying to pick fights with me on a message board over my views on a tv show.

And yes, wrestlers DO want a lighter schedule. They want to see their families, their loved ones, they want to have lives, they want to not get injured twice a year. Hence more and more big names are jumping ship to TNA.

 

[Kaedon]

So if you want to make any money being a professional wrestler you're forced to work damn near every day of the month, never seeing your family?

Yes because that is what it takes to make money. If they dont like it, they can get the fuck out, much like that whiny bitch Brock Lesnar did.

And yes, wrestlers DO want a lighter schedule. They want to see their families, their loved ones, they want to have lives, they want to not get injured twice a year. Hence more and more big names are jumping ship to TNA.

Then they shouldnt get into wrestling.

 

[monkeystyle]

So if you want to make any money being a professional wrestler you're forced to work damn near every day of the month, never seeing your family?

If you want to work for the WWE, that's what you have to do. And again, I state that the people who work there choose to. If they can make a living in TNA as you say they can, then the ones who are still with the WWE are fine with the schedules because they have chosen to still work there right?

And you seriously support this? You stand by WWE's work schedule? You stand by never seeing your family?

I've stated it before and I'll say it again, my opinion on the matter is irrelevant. I'm not a wrestler, nor do I aspire to be one. What I am stating are facts, and they are facts that those employed with the WWE have chosen to live with.

And yes, wrestlers DO want a lighter schedule. They want to see their families, their loved ones, they want to have lives, they want to not get injured twice a year. Hence more and more big names are jumping ship to TNA.

I addressed this in the first part of the post.

How about you actually reply to the thread with your own feelings rather than jumping on my posts every chance you get? This is getting really tiring, having a 25 year old administrator trying to pick fights with me on a message board over my views on a tv show.

My reply has nothing to do with whether I like you or not. I happen to think that you are wrong. Not to mention I enjoy arguing. Ask Kaedon, I like him just fine but I argue with him all the time. Bottom line is, you're nowhere near as special as you think you are.

 

[Switchy]

Well WWE superstars know what their getting into when they sign that contract and if it wasn't for the work they are doing they wouldn't be able to feed their families and if you think about it an average person only gets 8 days off a month (weekends) and that's not much of a difference really.

As for Kurt saying Lesnar can't perform when there's pressure on him I inda agree in a way, like the SSP at WM, I know it was nt enitrely his fault but if he is said to have done it several times in OVW then how come he couldn't then?

 

[The Rated R CMStar]

Wrestlers now what they are getting into. And if you have passion for the business, all those sacrifices mean nothing.

You can hear the difference in the interviews. When you hear RVD, Kurt Angle, Booker T, they said that to them, all the tours were just doing moves town after town(or if I quote RVD, he said wrestling had become to him just doing backflips and spins town after town), however, you hear guys like Batista, Cena, etc..., that see the tours as a chance to get known, a chance to entertain fans.

Angle is just in TNA, or wrestling as a whole, because he's too scared to do MMA and too bitter to go to WWE

 

[HHHforever]

Well as said the guys in TNA have totally different priorities than the WWE guys. Guys like Angle apparently don't like going on the road, they prefer to not travel and the price for that is a smaller pay check and working in front of smaller crowds. These guys know what they're getting into when they get here, I mean I don't know a lot about indy promotions but from what I know these guys are used to it by the time their up there. It's just the nature of the beast and if they want to make 7 figure pay checks and be famous across the country, and world for that matter, that's what the have to do. BTW if they're only working 250 days a year then how do you figure they only come home 5 days a month?

 

[THE Brian Kendrick's Biceps]

^^flights. they spend a lot of time not staying at home because they have to go to the airport

 

[Tsaalyo Phoenix]

Yes, it's not like each star has a private jet to take them directly to the ring, they're there for their five minute fight, and they're back home within the hour.

 

[HHHforever]

Okay my mistake and thank you roxxi for pointing out that not everyone has a private jet waiting for them outside the ring, but I'm sure your implying that HHH has one. Yet again though that really isn't the point. Wrestling is all about passion. If you don't have passion for it then you're not going to be able to make it because of the amount of work that you have to do and the sacrifices you have to make. If you can't cut it then go to TNA and wrestle in front of 1000 people in Florida. That's just how the business is. That's why the WWE is so successful if you don't travel then you're not going to get your product out across the country. I think they could probably put in a month offseason if they wanted to however that would just make the rest of the year even more intense and harder so it wouldn't make any sense.

 

[THE Brian Kendrick's Biceps]

you can say its all about the passion, yet im pretty sure not everyone who wrestles in the main event today has a real passion. like batista. he never wanted to be a wrestler, until he met mr perfect at a body-building contest. yet hes successful. its about mental toughness, not neccisarily passion

 

[HHHforever]

Okay well you can call it what you like, either way though you either have to be extremely passionate about what you do or you have to be extremely mentally tough. Evidently RVD isn't. As mentioned above, guys like Cena are.