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Kurt Angle would love to wrestle John Cena this year but knows that his body isn’t up to the challenge.
WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle was a recent guest on INSIGHT with Chris Van Vliet. When asked about potentially facing John Cena in his final match this year, Angle said he would love to, but he physically can’t do it.
“I would love to wrestle John Cena,” Kurt Angle admitted. “There’s nobody that wants to wrestle John more than I do for his retirement match. Especially with the respect I have for him. I just can’t do it.”
When asked why it wouldn’t be possible for him to train for several months to have the match at the end of 2025, Angle said if he starts beating himself up, his body won’t be able to recover.
“Because if I get in the ring and I start beating myself up, I’ll never heal,” Kurt Angle said. “I could just walk in there cold and have a match with him, but then I would probably regret it when I was done.”
Kurt Angle would be honored to induct John Cena into the WWE Hall of Fame
While the two men might not have a match this year, Angle would be honored to be the man to induct John Cena into the WWE Hall of Fame.
“Well, I’ll tell you this, there are a lot of people that deserve to induct John,” Kurt Angle said. “Randy Orton, who was his biggest, I guess, competition, or his nemesis. But Stephanie McMahon, don’t forget that she’s the one that discovered his rapping ability, and she was a big fan of his. I mean, she really supported him quite often.
“But no, listen, I’d be honored to induct John Cena. The one thing I want to say about him is he has shown that he is possibly the greatest WWE Superstar of all time, winning 16 World Heavyweight Titles in one company.
“Ric Flair won 16, but he won them in NWA and WCW and WWE, and you can’t take that away from him. They were all major promotions. But to do it all in one company, that makes you that company’s greatest star. And I really believe that he deserves another title before he retires.”
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