Post by robferatu on Apr 5, 2019 23:39:08 GMT -5
With Kurt Angle's career winding down on Sunday, how would you rate his last two years with the company? What are some of your favorite moments during this run, least favorite and what would have done differently?
Personally, the biggest highlight of his return was his Hall of Fame induction, followed by his tag team match with Ronda Rousey against Triple H and Stephanie McMahon at last years "Wrestlemania." I also feellike the initial the shock and surprise of his impromptu in-ring return filling in for Roman Reigns as the third member of the Shield at one of the third tier shows back in the Fall of two-thousand of seventeen deserves an honorable mention.
Other than that, I can't really think of any positive or noteworthy moments during his last two years with the company. The whole mishandling of his "Farewell Tour" has been the biggest disappoint of his return, I know a lot of that is due to his limitations in the ring, but if Sunday holds true and his final match in a WWE ring is against Baron Corbin, I'll feel like that's the worst possible way to send him off.
As for things I would have changed about the last two years of his career, it's hard to pick a place to start, but I feel like the dropping of the ball of choosing Jason Jordan as his illegitimate son over Chad Gable is a good enough place to start.
As someone that's partial to Gable's work of the America Alpha tandem, if they were set on truly doing a "illegitimate son" angle with the Olympic Hero, from in-ring work and look... And even a goofy charisma standpoint, Goble was such a blatantly obvious choice that it should go down as one of the biggest missed opportunities in recent memory.
I also feel like they should have protected him in the ring more, less one-on-one matches... Less television exposure, in an ideal world him a Chad would of had a "father/son" run as Raw Tag Team Champions with Goble carrying the brunt of the work in the ring and potentially taking Angle's last name for a brief time before inevitably turning on him and either renouncing his name, or disclosing it was a rouse all along and he was never Kurt's son to begin with.
They could have easily parlayed that into his aforementioned heel turn/beat down that would have written Angle off television for several months last Summer(much like what happened with him being suspended)before his eventual return in the fall building up to his final, potential passing of the torch match with the American Alpha-alumni at this year's edition of "Wrestlemania"
Overall, I'd probably rate his return as a five, but even that feels like I'm being generous.
Personally, the biggest highlight of his return was his Hall of Fame induction, followed by his tag team match with Ronda Rousey against Triple H and Stephanie McMahon at last years "Wrestlemania." I also feellike the initial the shock and surprise of his impromptu in-ring return filling in for Roman Reigns as the third member of the Shield at one of the third tier shows back in the Fall of two-thousand of seventeen deserves an honorable mention.
Other than that, I can't really think of any positive or noteworthy moments during his last two years with the company. The whole mishandling of his "Farewell Tour" has been the biggest disappoint of his return, I know a lot of that is due to his limitations in the ring, but if Sunday holds true and his final match in a WWE ring is against Baron Corbin, I'll feel like that's the worst possible way to send him off.
As for things I would have changed about the last two years of his career, it's hard to pick a place to start, but I feel like the dropping of the ball of choosing Jason Jordan as his illegitimate son over Chad Gable is a good enough place to start.
As someone that's partial to Gable's work of the America Alpha tandem, if they were set on truly doing a "illegitimate son" angle with the Olympic Hero, from in-ring work and look... And even a goofy charisma standpoint, Goble was such a blatantly obvious choice that it should go down as one of the biggest missed opportunities in recent memory.
I also feel like they should have protected him in the ring more, less one-on-one matches... Less television exposure, in an ideal world him a Chad would of had a "father/son" run as Raw Tag Team Champions with Goble carrying the brunt of the work in the ring and potentially taking Angle's last name for a brief time before inevitably turning on him and either renouncing his name, or disclosing it was a rouse all along and he was never Kurt's son to begin with.
They could have easily parlayed that into his aforementioned heel turn/beat down that would have written Angle off television for several months last Summer(much like what happened with him being suspended)before his eventual return in the fall building up to his final, potential passing of the torch match with the American Alpha-alumni at this year's edition of "Wrestlemania"
Overall, I'd probably rate his return as a five, but even that feels like I'm being generous.
