Was Kurt Angle a good draw?

[radiantsilvergun]

Did the WWE get good buyrates and ratings while Angle was on top of the card throughout his career?

[Mozenrath]

I would imagine he did well by them and probably sold shirts and such for them. It feels weird looking at it now, but he was there for a relatively short time compared to Triple H, Cena, etc, in terms of contemporaries who may be comparable to him in star power, so it's difficult to say.

[Gerard Gerard]

It tends to get clouded by the fact Wrestlemania 19, the only one he truly headlined, holds the record of the lowest PPV 'Mania buyrate of the 00s. That is in spite of the fact that all the marketing had Hogan/McMahon front-and-centre for the general build.

I think it's telling that he was relied upon to carry the Smackdown or B Brand and only really occupied a rotating RAW main-event role. He's in that same ambigiuous level of drawness as Batista, Orton, Jericho and whatnot.

[The Dark Order Inferno]

Kurt Angle was the guy that worked with the guy they were trying to make into the face of the company, like Triple H only with actual jobbing when it actually mattered so it's hard to gauge just how much of a draw he was as an individual performer. He tried his hardest to put over whoever he was asked to and was enough of a draw for the WWE to keep him in a prominent role up until his release, heck, if it wasn't for deaths on the road they would have kept him and let him keep on getting more muscular, grotesque and injured.

[Ben Wyatt]

Gotta wonder how much better of a draw he would have been if they didn't completely f*** up his momentum after Survivor Series 01

[Cranjis McBasketball]

He drew me, that's all I care about. Me!