Kurt Angle Recalls His "Amateur Wrestling Match" With AJ Styles

27/09/2023 21:28

On a recent episode of his “The Kurt Angle Show” podcast, Kurt Angle recalled wrestling AJ Styles in somewhat of an “amateur wrestling match” back in TNA. Providing some background as to how the idea came about and how its execution differed vis a vis his previous experiences wrestling, Angle said,

"It was mine and AJ's. And the reason why is AJ told me that he was a state champion wrestler in high school. And I was like, 'Oh, you were a state champion wrestler, so you know how to wrestle.' He said, 'Yes, I do.' He was right. He did know how to wrestle. We set up this match where we had three rounds, like three periods like wrestling. And we took the ropes down and we wrestled. And I thought it was different. I wouldn't say it was the greatest match in the world, but it was pretty good and I thought it was different.”

He continued, “A little harder than putting together a pro wrestling match? Sure. You have to remember that when you wrestle in amateur wrestling, you go by instinct. You don't think about what you do. You go by the reaction. But here you have to remember what you're doing and you're doing amateur wrestling moves, and you're trying to your memory is telling you what to do back to back rather than instinct. So it's a little harder to do, but we were able to pull it off. I actually never watched it before, so I have no idea how it came out, but I thought we did pretty good."

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