10 Wrestlers That Couldn't Hide How Much They Hated Their Jobs
8. Kurt Angle (SmackDown, November 4th 2004)
Hated his job, or hated the fact he nearly did an unexpected job. Same/same for a raging Kurt Angle after he was nearly shown up by Tough Enough competitor Daniel Puder during a pretty ugly hazing ritual dressed up as an amateur wrestling segment on SmackDown.
Kurt challenged the overmatched kids to wrestle him as part of their weekly on-screen sh*tkicking. Understandably believing his role was to try and beat the Olympian, Puder used his MMA experience to trap Angle's arm in a keylock. It took referee Jimmy Korderas' quick thinking and some careful editing to make it appear as though Kurt had rolled Puder forward into a pinfall, but any saved blushes were exposed by Angle's fury after the fact.
Rebuffing a handshake and doling out almighty b*llocking before shooing him out of the ring, a breathless Angle tried to cut a promo on the crop of competitors that had seen what had really nearly happened. The face saving exercise didn't work, but the company's lack of interest in pushing Puder after his eventual victory rapidly erased any mention of the moment.