10 Best Stories Of First Time Wrestlers Met Vince McMahon

10. Kurt Angle Turned Down A $5 Million Deal

It's not everyday that a first meeting with somebody sees them immediately offer you $5 million, but that was indeed the case when Kurt Angle first met Vince McMahon.

Taking place in 1996, fresh off Angle winning gold at the Olympics that summer, McMahon was so keen to bring the Pittsburgh native into the fold that he put a ten-year, $500,000 per year deal on the table.

Kurt has recently discussed this whole situation on The Kurt Angle Show Podcast, explaining how he walked away from that meeting extremely interested in joining the then-World Wrestling Federation.

That wouldn't come to pass, though, for Angle would actually turn down this mammoth offer - with his agent and advisors chastising him for even considering taking up the offer to enter this "fake" profession, while Kurt himself wanted a deal that meant he could never, ever lose a match.

Two years later, with that $5 million offer long since rescinded, Angle would sign with McMahon's company on a five-year deal worth 'just' $50,000 per year. Instantly sent to train under Dory Funk Jr. at the Funkin' Dojo, the Wrestling Machine would make his televised WWE debut 18 months later at the 1999 Survivor Series.