Kurt Angle recently looked back at starting in WWE as a heel and how much he ultimately enjoyed it. Angle came into WWE as a bad guy and he’s spoken before about how he didn’t think it would work but ultimately embraced it, something he touched in in his interview with Danielle McCartan for WFAN. You can see highlights below (per Wrestling Inc:
On Vince McMahon’s plans for him to be a heel: “He said, ‘Listen, I’m going to turn you into the anti-hero. You’re going to be the biggest heel in the business.’ I said, ‘Vince, it’s not going to happen. These fans, they know I’m an Olympic gold medalist, I’m an American hero. There’s no way you’re going to make me a heel.’ He said, ‘Yes I am, and the way I’m going to do it, is you’re going to preach the three I’s — intensity, integrity, and intelligence, but you’re going to do the opposite. The people are going to think you’re a hypocrite.’ That’s what makes people sad, when you tell them one thing and you’re preaching it, and you’re doing the other.”
On enjoying being a heel: “I loved pissing the fans off. It was so much fun. It was so easy to get them angry — just being me, I thought I’d be likable but fans literally hated my guts.”
