Vince Russo Says WWE Is Punishing Kurt Angle For TNA Move By Making Him Fight Baron Corbin

TheSportster

By Lou Flavius

Published Mar 25, 2019

Vince Russo has an interesting take on Kurt Angle's farewell match.

Former WWE wrestler and WCW Heavyweight champion Vince Russo has branded WWE childish and vindictive for what he claims is a revenge plot against Kurt Angle for his leaving them for TNA.

Angle signed with TNA 13 years ago, but Russo says that WWE is still making the outgoing wrestler pay for it by undermining him at every turn and putting him in a farewell match with Baron Corbin.

"Kurt Angle left the WWE and went to TNA," Russo said to Jeffrey Harris on the 411 Wrestling Interviews Podcast. "That was Kurt Angle’s decision. Now bro, I’ve learned better than anybody, when you leave the WWE, and you leave them and it’s your choice to walk away, when you make that decision, you are blackballed. You are the enemy. Nobody walks away from us. We fire you. Nobody walks away from us.

"So, trust me. The way I’ve been treated, I understand clearly, when you walk away on your own terms, you are the enemy. They will go out of their way to bury you and make you look bad. That’s exactly what they’ve done with Kurt Angle from day one.

"They brought him in as the authority figure. Stephanie McMahon cut off his nut sack every single week. Kurt Angle never got a payback. He had to sit there with his hand on his crotch. Finally, he’s going to have his last match, his last big match, and who is it against? Baron Corbin."

Russo says WWE's juvenile nature has made it so he has no interest in ever returning to the promotion, having left for TNA himself in 2002 after turning down an advisory role that would have paid him $125,000 per year.

"That’s their way of getting back at Kurt Angle. They’re childish," he added. "They’re juvenile. That’s the way they’ve always been. That’s why I have zero interest in ever going back to that company again on a full-time basis because of things like this."