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Professional wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle who is a former six times World champion in WWE and a former six times TNA World Heavyweight Champion recently revealed why an MMA fight between him and Ken Shamrock never took place.

Kurt Angle is one of the biggest names in the history of professional wrestling. He started his professional wrestling career back in 1999 under WWE after his excellent spell in the Olympics 1996.

Kurt Angle Reveals Why He Never Faced Ken Shamrock On MMA

He was instantly pushed as a main event start and he rightfully deserve it. He was a perfect professional wrestler. After winning a total of six world championships in his 7 year spell of WWE, he decided to leave the promotion.

In 2006 he decided to join the life and promotion of WWE back in the time Total Nonstop Action wrestling aka TNA wrestling. He is arguably the biggest star in the history of TNA wrestling.

In his decade long TNA career, he achieved a lot of success including a total of six TNA World Heavyweight Championships and other championships as well. He has always been portrayed as the biggest star of the promotion, and indeed he was what they wanted him to portray as. In 2017, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Kurt Angle who is a former six times World champion in WWE recently spoke on his Kurt Angle Show where he revealed why an MMA fight between him and Ken Shamrock never took place. He said;

“There was no way I was able to do it. I had no strength in my upper body. If you remember my thing with Daniel Puder, I couldn’t do three push-ups at that particular time. Dan caught me in an armbar … I was in trouble, if he would have kept going, if he wouldn’t have pinned himself, I would have ended up breaking my arm. I was losing circulation to my arms. So my arms got weaker … and got smaller, and I couldn’t do anything, I couldn’t bench 135 pounds, I was weak, my upper body was so weak.”

“I said, ‘Listen, I am not in any position to fight right now … Don’t get me wrong, I can still take you down,’” he revealed. “Ken said, ‘Don’t worry, I’ll take it easy on you,’ and I thought, ‘wait a minute, did we just fix a fight?’ Ken said, ‘Well, I’m not going to take it that easy on you, if I have to finish you off, I’m going to finish you off.’”