Kurt Angle calls his match with Shane McMahon from King of The Ring 2001

Kurt Angle is a 14-time professional wrestling world champion, with titles collected in WWE, TNA, and Japan. He is in both the WWE and TNA/Impact Hall of Fames, a two-time NCAA Division 1 National Champion, and has also won a gold medal in freestyle wrestling at the 1996 Summer Games with, as he likes to say, ‘a broken freaking neck.’ At every stop in his career, Angle has reached the top of the mountain, and now he’s taking his Three I’s; Intensity, Intelligence, and Integrity, to the podcast world as he joins host Conrad Thompson to take a look back at some of the matches, feuds and moments that turned an Olympic gold medalist into one of the greatest sports entertainers of all time. It’s True. It’s damn true
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  • @matias_8823
    @matias_88232 жыл бұрын

    Saw this in person as a kid and was in complete shock. Parents nervously tried hard to play it off as showbiz but holy shit to me this match was brutal as fuck and there was no getting around how insane it was to see it go down. Definitely a product of a bygone era, amazing match

  • @wurdofwizdumb1928
    @wurdofwizdumb1928 Жыл бұрын

    KURT… my brother… Thanks for taking bumps to make my childhood fun and entertaining. Even when you happened to be heel you always happened to be one of my favourites… Playing you in the old smack down games as a kid was amazing haha. All crazy body slams and submissions. You are a f’n inspiration.

  • @RestingBeachFace721

    @RestingBeachFace721

    4 ай бұрын

    Even the heel skits backstage they were so damn silly and funny.

  • @cristiana.2036
    @cristiana.2036 Жыл бұрын

    I just wanna give my appreciation to Kurt Angle for sacrificing his body and life for our entertainment. I know we used to boo you and heckle you before, but looking back at it now you made every match you were a part of special. Thank you Kurt Angle you are a huge role model for me and a lot of my friends. Huge shout out to Shane o mac as well, goddamn you guys are amazing !

  • @RestingBeachFace721

    @RestingBeachFace721

    4 ай бұрын

    And he would embrace the chants. Kurt’s such a cool guy. A hell of a competitor and workhorse.

  • @MeNoSpeakJibberish
    @MeNoSpeakJibberish2 жыл бұрын

    Imagine how painful that final top rope Angle slam must of been for Kurt with a broken tailbone. This match is still a classic and a true testiment to both mens toughness

  • @willisrose9756

    @willisrose9756

    Жыл бұрын

    Probably hurt like a motherfucker!

  • @daedrumsstl

    @daedrumsstl

    Жыл бұрын

    Adrenaline, man. It's a helluva drug

  • @MeNoSpeakJibberish

    @MeNoSpeakJibberish

    Жыл бұрын

    @@daedrumsstl I always thought anyone in a match with Shane is in a really tough spot. Shane is stiffing guys and trying to prove his toughness and his Mcmahon grapegruits and the wrestlers are having to keep Shane in check knowing if Shane gets hurt their jobs could be at stake. Apparently Vince was losing his sh*t in an ugly way during the glass panel spots going wrong he was trying to tell the ref to tell Angle and Shane to stop and not keep trying to break the glass but they were too concussed and into the match to follow Vinces orders the more they didnt listen the angrier Vince got and took it all out on Bruce Prichard sat next to him 🤣

  • @johnjohnsonstein8409

    @johnjohnsonstein8409

    4 ай бұрын

    @@MeNoSpeakJibberishI dk if they would be in jeopardy… Shane knew that he could get hurt going out there every time… and Shane would have fought for the wrestler who hurt him… Shane is a tough sob it’s crazy

  • @lk5388
    @lk53882 жыл бұрын

    Shane mcmahon is an ecw wrestler

  • @dannooooooo

    @dannooooooo

    2 жыл бұрын

    yea, he was always trying to live out his ECW dream in WWE, which is funny, cause a lot of ECW guys were trying to live out a WWE dream in ECW

  • @ahmadceasar5484

    @ahmadceasar5484

    2 жыл бұрын

    He's really a heyman but vince adopted him

  • @jeffwelch1581

    @jeffwelch1581

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ahmadceasar5484 wait what?

  • @jameswesten2018

    @jameswesten2018

    Жыл бұрын

    And he owned WCW too

  • @josephspencer5447

    @josephspencer5447

    Жыл бұрын

    As crazy as that sounds it is true Shane has everybody's respect and has definitely proven himself over and over

  • @JUSTINTIME-CEO
    @JUSTINTIME-CEO2 жыл бұрын

    1 of the best matches EVER! Soo epic! 🙌🙌🙌🔥🔥🔥👏👏👏

  • @Helping.Homless
    @Helping.Homless Жыл бұрын

    Wow the watch along timer IS GAME CHANGING..it's like watching back a match with the wrestler talking about it..this is amazing..I'm now binging all matches with the watch along timer

  • @RestingBeachFace721

    @RestingBeachFace721

    4 ай бұрын

    This is great content.

  • @weasel182
    @weasel182 Жыл бұрын

    Was really fun to watch the full length match and listen to Kurt’s commentary of the match. Really adds an extra layer. Might have to go back and do this for a few others! Kurt you’re the GOAT!

  • @RestingBeachFace721

    @RestingBeachFace721

    4 ай бұрын

    It gives it more depth and it’s like watching with a fresh pair of eyes. Pretty cool. This match was absolutely phenomenal

  • @Brawling_Style
    @Brawling_Style2 жыл бұрын

    I had this on VHS as a kid along with blackman vs Shane at summerslam but jesus fucking christ when he throws him through that glass you know 100% Shane tells Kurt "just throw me through it" those suplexes landing on his head........ Long live the attitude era.

  • @ReesesCupsAreGood
    @ReesesCupsAreGood2 жыл бұрын

    I almost spit my water out in laughter at "I couldn't even sell it". Reason being I've had plenty of painful situations in life and I can relate. Maybe not to that extent . I also understand the back situation. I hurt my back so bad I couldn't bend down. The pain was so bad when I tried to bend down that I laughed. I don't know if that's a coping mechanism or what.

  • @Bobby.2000
    @Bobby.20002 жыл бұрын

    Kurt calls his match. Kurt - 'i can't remember any of it'. The end lol.

  • @reginaldwoods6615

    @reginaldwoods6615

    2 жыл бұрын

    That was Perc Angle

  • @l2dalegend

    @l2dalegend

    Жыл бұрын

    🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @ShiggumsDiggums
    @ShiggumsDiggums2 жыл бұрын

    Man I remember watching this match as a kid. Gotta respect these guys.

  • @RestingBeachFace721

    @RestingBeachFace721

    4 ай бұрын

    The battery their bodies take is just wow. It’s crazy those high spots I’d be shaking looking down. They made it look so artful.

  • @tylerbunting1404
    @tylerbunting14042 жыл бұрын

    I remember saying. "Ho shit he's dead"😂

  • @Collinzmusic
    @Collinzmusic2 жыл бұрын

    Oh boy what a match that was. I couldn't believe ye were able to keep going considering the punishment you guys were taking. Some inner strength there to finish that off. Brilliant 👏

  • @RestingBeachFace721

    @RestingBeachFace721

    4 ай бұрын

    And to have more amazing matches in the future. What a career for these two.

  • @adam-yk6yd
    @adam-yk6yd11 ай бұрын

    These watch-alongs are the most compelling wresting content on the internet. Amazing to have the insights - thanks Kurt for everything!

  • @RestingBeachFace721

    @RestingBeachFace721

    4 ай бұрын

    To have the wrestler narrate his own match gives it so much backstory. I could listen to wrestlers talk about their matches for hours. It’s so interesting.

  • @Skateandcreate9
    @Skateandcreate92 жыл бұрын

    Such an amazing match Kurt!! So hyped to see you looking back on it! One of my all time favorites!!!

  • @Probasaur
    @Probasaur11 ай бұрын

    Was an incredible time to be a kid in new Jersey watching this live with my seat up near the top of the ramp. Watching the glass panel spots was a truly gut wrenching experience. As breathtaking as the glass was, the Angle Slam from the top rope off the board was almost equally as memorable. That extra 1 foot it provided felt like 10 in the moment and made it feel bigger than any top rope spot we'd seen.

  • @RestingBeachFace721

    @RestingBeachFace721

    4 ай бұрын

    What an amazing night. Something you’ll never forget.

  • @JOHNN01.82
    @JOHNN01.822 жыл бұрын

    Kurt really kisses shanes arse , shane has only had a hand full of matches in over 20 years , Kurt worked 3 matches that night got concussed in his first match and then broke his tail bone in his last match he was truly a a machine

  • @Probasaur
    @Probasaur11 ай бұрын

    Many thanks to Kurt and Shane for one of the most absolutely incredible, truly memorable matches. i was blessed enough to be a kid there in the arena that night in Jersey

  • @RestingBeachFace721

    @RestingBeachFace721

    4 ай бұрын

    This match is up there with the Foley table bump off the cell. Shane has got some balls to do those crazy high spots. Falling backwards off of scaffolding is maddening but incredibly impressive. That glass bump wow. Never see it again in today’s WWE. That glass went POP!!

  • @JustChrisTM
    @JustChrisTM2 жыл бұрын

    31:00 - wish that respect for Shane carried over to this generation

  • @JA-ev7om

    @JA-ev7om

    2 жыл бұрын

    *Shane fucked that up himself.*

  • @718datbxkid

    @718datbxkid

    2 жыл бұрын

    The fans over Shane wish him and Vince had a better relationship so he could take over the business

  • @ericpivaral4747

    @ericpivaral4747

    Жыл бұрын

    WhT do you mean? They don’t have a good relationship?

  • @tdraghi70
    @tdraghi70 Жыл бұрын

    I was sitting up by the hard cam and this was the most insane thing I’d ever seen.

  • @StepUncle69
    @StepUncle692 жыл бұрын

    I love perc angle

  • @tryhardtrynot
    @tryhardtrynot2 жыл бұрын

    34:00 It’s also one of the most memorable spots of all time 👏

  • @Glue88
    @Glue88 Жыл бұрын

    Show anyone that says wrestling is fake this match.

  • @RestingBeachFace721

    @RestingBeachFace721

    4 ай бұрын

    ⬆️

  • @HarvRoman
    @HarvRoman2 жыл бұрын

    That gosh darn stubborn glass...looked harsh...

  • @Tony500x1
    @Tony500x1 Жыл бұрын

    This match and the TLC match WM17 are one of my earliest memories of WWF/wrestling entertainment is General

  • @vincea2996
    @vincea2996 Жыл бұрын

    No way Shane wears a size 17 shoe

  • @Dakatari
    @Dakatari2 жыл бұрын

    Shane o Mac doesn't get as much credit for his toughness as he should.

  • @thefantasybros424

    @thefantasybros424

    2 жыл бұрын

    Oh, I think he does though lol.

  • @agarcia8190

    @agarcia8190

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@thefantasybros424 right? He is literally known for the crazy bumps he takes

  • @dr.darkroom
    @dr.darkroom6 ай бұрын

    Man i took a fall on my tailbone when i was little and i couldn't walk for hours. Of course folks thought i was acting or something but it really was 10/10 pain because it completely incapacitates you instantly.

  • @RestingBeachFace721

    @RestingBeachFace721

    4 ай бұрын

    Same here I’ve fell on mine before. It’s some excruciating pain. You wouldn’t think but the pain just rips through your torso and radiates.

  • @johnjohnsonstein8409

    @johnjohnsonstein8409

    4 ай бұрын

    Same it was one of the worst things I’ve ever experienced… and I’ve torn my acl, meniscus, pulled my lower back, broke my nose, broke my hand etc…. Out of all of that, the tailbone was legitimately excruciating. I didn’t want to move

  • @haroldguerrero1556
    @haroldguerrero1556 Жыл бұрын

    Kurt also wrestler in Ecw and NJPW, WWE and tna and thank you

  • @juandemarko8348
    @juandemarko8348 Жыл бұрын

    Kurt and Shane were just ❤🙏🇺🇸👍

  • @zackphy
    @zackphy2 жыл бұрын

    I broke my tailbone when I was 12 doing BMX dirt jumps. I was doing a superman where I kick my legs out behind me in the air b4 bringing them back b4 landing and I pulled myself too far foward and also jumped out too far completely missing the other side of the dirt pile and landed on the flat ground with my tailbone taking the full force of the landing on the frame in front of the seat. I couldn't sit down without a donut for 6 months after and for a year+ I couldn't sit down on hard chairs for more than a few mins. It was to this day the most painful thing I've ever experienced so I know exactly how Angle felt. I have no idea how he continued with the match after that because I know I could barely move after I broke mine. I think it was over a year b4 I got back on my bike, or b4 I jumped anything anyway. I mostly changed to only skateboarding after that where I had previously did both.

  • @darksoul6482

    @darksoul6482

    2 жыл бұрын

    Many people call Kurt Angle as a Cyborg. Wrestling Machine

  • @adzcop8461

    @adzcop8461

    2 жыл бұрын

    Try falling of the monkey bars & landing right on your arm & the bone breaking in half & the bone sticking right out your skin now that’s what you call pain .

  • @RestingBeachFace721

    @RestingBeachFace721

    4 ай бұрын

    Damn! 🤕

  • @jungshin87
    @jungshin872 жыл бұрын

    am i missing something? this should have at least 10x the views...i think people just dont know about it. it took me too long to find out this exists

  • @RestingBeachFace721

    @RestingBeachFace721

    4 ай бұрын

    Same here. This is timeless. I love the commentary

  • @RestingBeachFace721
    @RestingBeachFace7214 ай бұрын

    Vince must of been shocked. Mad because of the glass spot but impressed and probably overjoyed by the performance.

  • @bplup6419
    @bplup64192 жыл бұрын

    To be honest, the pyro shattering the glass would be awesome for an entrance.

  • @themachoechidnaugandarandy7583

    @themachoechidnaugandarandy7583

    Жыл бұрын

    As awesome as that would of been to see. It would of been more fitting as an epic effect for stone cold

  • @chillpengeru

    @chillpengeru

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@@themachoechidnaugandarandy7583I think he did actually shatter glass in the match with beet Hart? Unless I'm imagining it.

  • @sirmax2stacks2000
    @sirmax2stacks20005 ай бұрын

    If Kurt had never broke his tail bone I probably wouldn’t be a wrestling fan, those segments with Austin as goofy as they were, hooked me as a kid

  • @durden2480
    @durden24802 жыл бұрын

    Shane’s a badass

  • @josephross7936
    @josephross7936 Жыл бұрын

    Now we know why Austin & Angle did the funny skits backstage with McMahon (between KofR & Invasion). Still be involved in all the stories without needing them to wrestle and a chance to heel from injuries.

  • @RestingBeachFace721
    @RestingBeachFace7214 ай бұрын

    If Kurt didn’t prove it with his medals they both solidified themselves that night that they were not messing around.

  • @darshin95
    @darshin954 ай бұрын

    Talking about the injury bug, Benoit broke his neck in the main event

  • @tafua_a
    @tafua_a2 жыл бұрын

    Shane's punches are the exact opposite of a good working punch: they look like shit, but they hurt.

  • @shaddy9883
    @shaddy98832 жыл бұрын

    Shane should have been a more decorated in-ring competitor

  • @craigwilson3532
    @craigwilson3532 Жыл бұрын

    Kurt you are prob the best overall wrestler ever, right up there with HBK, Triple H, Sting, Jake The Snake. Had the ability n the mic skills

  • @tommyhallum2054
    @tommyhallum20542 жыл бұрын

    If they were gonna end up using real glass anyway why didn't they just use single pane window glass because it would hold up to the pyro but if you lean on it would shatter? This stuff was damn near reinforced glass.

  • @rrash92
    @rrash922 жыл бұрын

    Hi

  • @thickerconstrictor9037
    @thickerconstrictor90372 жыл бұрын

    I think the worst thing that you can see in professional wrestling is someone take a move and not sell it at all. Like I've wrestled on and off since I was 18 which was in 2006 and selling is probably my favorite thing about wrestling. Just making things look unique and standing out and making things look legitimate when they're not hurting you, but there's been times where I've been kicked in the stomach or I've done a moonsault and mist and just knocked the ever living piss out of myself where I can't breathe at all and in those situations I'm literally lying there just dead. Seeing stuff like that can be scary for sure because if someone's not selling and I don't mean like they just took a big move and they're dead selling that's different but something like with what Kurt did here that's just always a sign that something doesn't feel right. Shawn Michaels hitting the announcers table with his stomach in the match with flair you could tell he knocked the wind out of himself bad. And that's such a terrible terrible feeling in the middle of a match because you're already winded and you're already tired and it seems like it always happens when it's time for you to rest and catch your breath for a big part of the match.

  • @fattdamon1980
    @fattdamon198010 ай бұрын

    I remember watching this on TV when it happened and I hated Shane McMahon. About halfway through my opinion changed drastically because of how tough and ballsy he was lol. I became a major Kurt Angle fan as well. as an adult I see things so differently than back then.

  • @movementencouragedfitness5945
    @movementencouragedfitness5945 Жыл бұрын

    Jericho punched chyna for real. He punched Shawn’s wife for real. Now even angle is saying he throws potatoes.

  • @dannooooooo
    @dannooooooo2 жыл бұрын

    I'm a casual fan of hardcore wrestling these days, not something I watch a lot of, but every once in awhile i see something on GCW thats worth watching, or the tournament of death. but its rare that you see a match worthy of the destruction these guys to do their bodies, because a lot of times the pacing is poor, the moves look like crap, and the story telling is non existent. In a lot of way, this match is one of the greatest hardcore matches because we got to see one of the greatest workers to ever do it, play with hardcore/deathmatch toys (glass i consider a deathmatch staple), with one of the most game opponents to enter a WWE, Shane. Shane was willing to do anything for the show, the heights he's jumped from are waaaaay more dangerous then the glass, and hes always full commitment. Really a special match, to see that level of mat work and grappling, moves that look that tight, viscous weapon strikes, and some decent heights with the angle slam at the end.

  • @Shielsproductions100
    @Shielsproductions1002 жыл бұрын

    Is it hard to wrestle with a concussion?.

  • @LanceJ.

    @LanceJ.

    2 жыл бұрын

    I don’t remember