15 Things We Just Learned From Kurt Angle About WWE & His Career

6. His Proudest Match

What about individual matches? He inevitably spoke up his WrestleMania matches fondly - including mentioning his match with Chris Benoit (which still feels shocking when it's not censored out) - but it seems the one bout he's most proud of didn't happen on the biggest stage possible, though it sounds like they wanted it to:

"The one that I'm most proud of, unfortunately is not a WrestleMania match. We wanted it to be. It was against Undertaker at No Way Out 2006. I think that match could have been the best match of my career. Of course Undertaker made it a lot easier. It had everything you wanted in a wrestling match from finishes to submissions to real wrestling. Not a lot of punches thrown - it was a really good, old-school style wrestling match that went over 30 minutes - that doesn't happen very often unless you're at WrestleMania..."

Later, he spoke up 'Taker's philosophy, calling him the man and it's very obvious he has a lot of respect for the man who ruled 'Mania for so long.