Kurt Angle's 10 Greatest Moments
6. “You Do Not Boo An Olympic Gold Medallist”
The mid-match promo that would transform Kurt Angle's entire life, a simple boastful moment of frustration proved the catalyst for one of the greatest tenures in company history.
Making his debut at the 1999 Survivor Series, Angle was bolstered by a selection of knowingly obnoxious tribute videos that had aired in the weeks prior.
Focussing on his 1996 Olympic success, the vignettes intentionally hammered Angle's status as 'the most celebrated real athlete in WWE history', to the point where fans had already grown weary of his appearance before even debuting.
Fostering the growing resentment from the Attitude-era fanbase, Kurt then deliberately worked in amateur submission holds in the early portion of his first match with tackling dummy Shawn Stasiak, encouraging chants of 'boring and a chorus of boos.
Pausing after taking Stasiak down with a clothesline, an angry Kurt rolled to the floor and took to the house microphone to admonish the fans for their perceived mistreatment of him, which simultaneously triggered yet more disdain and underscored the sanctimonious character the Olympian would impressively portray in his early months with WWE.