PHOTO: Kurt Angle Shares Staredown With Top Current Champion

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WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle shared a photo Monday (August 16) morning that's sure to get wrestling fans excited about a potential dream match.

The Olympic Gold medalist posted a photo of himself locked in a staredown with All Elite Wrestling TNT Champion Miro (known formerly as Rusev in WWE) on his verified social media accounts.

"If I didn't already have a room full of world titles and championships...I'd take that one too. IT’S…DAMN….TRUE @ToBeMiro #USA," Angle wrote.

Miro has long been included among current wrestlers mentioned by fans in dream match scenarios with Angle dating back to his run as a top anti-American villain in WWE.

The Bulgarian revealed that he previously pitched working with Angle prior to the legendary wrestler being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame and making his return as an on-screen authority figure in 2017.

“I talked to two people,” Miro said in a video shared on his YouTube channel in September 2020 in response to a fan commenting that Angle had publicly expressed his interest in working with him. “I’m not going to say who they are, but I talked to two people and they are really high up there. I said, ‘How about we bring back Kurt? It’s going to be great. One, he’s the greatest professional wrestler ever. Two, it’s USA coming back and I’m doing the Russian thing.’

"Kurt would have been the perfect person, but they told me no. This is verbatim from the person that told me. He said, ‘We don’t want to feel responsible if he comes back and dies.’ That’s from the person that told me. There were two people there. If one says I’m lying, hopefully the other will stand up and say it’s true. In the end, he got that match with [Baron] Corbin, but I always wanted to wrestle Kurt.”

Miro added that Angle was his favorite wrestler growing up and even more so after the Olympian's decision to adopt a child from Bulgaria.

“He’s my favorite wrestler ever,” Miro added. “It would have been the best to get to work with him. It would have been perfect. I even DM’d him back then before I knew him. I sent him a message on Twitter just telling him I wanted to work with him. We ended up talking back and forth for a bit about it.

“I love Kurt. He adopted a 14-year old boy from Bulgaria. I loved him before that, but after doing that and blessing that child, he’s just the best. We don’t have money for all these things over there, so for him to go adopt a kid from there and bring him to the states and bless him, I am always going to be grateful towards him for that.”


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