10 WWE Wrestlers Who Should NEVER Have Come Back
1. Kurt Angle
There's a very telling moment in the Network profile piece made for Kurt Angle's 2017 return to the WWE fold that foreshadowed the reality of the run to follow.
It occurs as cameras go with Angle to Titan Tower for his visit there since leaving in 2006. Triple H is full of beans when he arrives, offering way more love to him as a retired icon than he ever did when they worked together. It's legitimately sweet, not least because the documentary had profiled his recovery from the various addictions that had contributed to the two sides parting way in the first place.
Hunter gleefully knocks on Vince McMahon's door with Angle in tow, but the second The Chairman sees the crew, he doles out the coldest rejection this side of the NXT 2.0 revamp. Whatever his relationship with 'The Olympian' was, it wasn't one he wanted to share with the world.
This couldn't have been clearer on screen. McMahon simply didn't view Kurt as a 'Wrestling Machine' anymore. Matches were short and relatively meaningless outside of his debut alongside Ronda Rousey (appropriately, against Triple H and Stephanie McMahon), and even he buried his own tepid career-ending loss to Baron Corbin at WrestleMania 35.
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