Kurt Angle's 10 Greatest Moments

2. "Yippee Ki Yay"

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Arguably WWE's comedic peak, the summer 2001 segments between Angle, 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin and Vince McMahon remain some of the most tightly written in company history.

Featuring the paranoid WWE Champion Austin warring with the childlike Kurt Angle over the affections of Vince McMahon, the three were sensational in their individual portrayals of increasingly clueless buffoons failing to manage the incoming threat of Shane McMahon's WCW invasion.

And whilst 'Stone Cold' was a revelation in the role in his own right, Kurt regularly stole the show as his idiot foil.

In this, the most famous of the skits, Steve Austin had purchased extravagant cowboy hats for himself and Vince, oblivious to how utterly absurd they both looked.

Typical of these segments though, Angle actually felt left out of their game of cowboys, until Austin presented him a wrapped gift too, forcing Angle briefly out of shot whilst 'The Rattlesnake' and Mr McMahon played Wild Wild West.

As stupid as it was sophisticated, the reveal as Angle lurches forward in his kiddie hat with an enthused 'Yippee Ki Yay' is as side-splitting now as it was then, and remains one of the few times WWE experimented with a malapropism instead of their usual incredibly broad humour.

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