Kurt Angle Wants WWE To Take Key Step In Partnership With TNA
Kurt Angle is delighted, if a little surprised, to see WWE’s growing relationship with TNA.
Throughout 2025, WWE’s relationship with TNA has become closer than ever. This has seen Trick Williams, an NXT star, win the TNA World Championship, and Joe Hendry appear at WrestleMania 41 opposite Randy Orton.
It’s even been reported that WWE has an influence over TNA’s ongoing media rights negotiations and is even working to make the promotion the number two company in North America.
Furthermore, WWE is believed to have a clause that allows them to purchase TNA “within a certain length of time.”
Kurt Angle Wants TNA Relationship To Go Further
During an appearance on the Mic Check podcast with fellow former WWE and TNA star Ken Anderson, Angle admitted he never thought the two companies would ever work together. However, he wants to see WWE acquire TNA’s video library, so more fans will get to see his work with the company.
I was actually really excited, to be honest with you. I think I never thought in a million years, especially when we were competing against WWE, when Ken and I was at TNA, I never thought in a million years WWE would ever partner up with TNA, and the thing is, the reason why I love it, because I know eventually the WWE is going to buy the TNA library, and the WWE will now own all the Kurt Angle footage at TNA.
The WWE fans are going to be able to have access to it. You know, I’m going to tell you right now, I had a much better career at TNA than I did WWE. I was there a lot longer, too. So most of my career was in TNA. A lot of the WWE fans didn’t see me. So now I have the opportunity of having the fans being allowed to see me compete in TNA and perform.
It just…I know it’s going to happen eventually. I just never thought it would in a million years, but you know, now that they have partnered and they’re both, invested in each other. I think eventually they’re going to buy the library.”
After initially signing with WWE in 1998, Angle quickly established himself as one of the best wrestlers in the world. However, his physical style and major injury problems led to a serious addiction to pain medication, and in August 2006, he left the company.
Just three months later, Angle signed with TNA Wrestling and continued to perform at a high level despite his problems with addiction and injury. In 2024, Kurt Angle said this period of his career deserves more credit, describing himself as a “man on a mission.
Angle stayed with TNA until 2016, when he headed to the independent circuit before re-signing with WWE in early 2017. The popular star was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame before being named Raw General Manager and eventually returning to the ring.
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