![]() ![]() "But it was a night that I regret and I wish I could take back, because Eddie was always the greatest performer, one of the greatest I’ve ever been with. Thank God the match was taped, it was a SmackDown match and it was pre-taped so we were able to clean it up before we aired it. "So that’s one match I would definitely like to take back, just because Eddie was in no condition to wrestle that time, but nobody knew about his heart problem - that came out of nowhere the day he passed away. I thought he was cracking, I didn’t know he had the heart problem. I was trying to shoot him off and was like ‘Eddie we gotta go’ and he was like ‘no, no, no’. He was so unhealthy, not just tired, he grabbed the rope and he wouldn’t let go. One night, it was in Texas, I had a match with him, a lumberjack match. I think it was his heart not pumping at the proper pace. “When he was backstage he was having a lot of issues with his energy. ![]() He would walk backstage like, and when he would go to the ring, his entrance, he was Eddie - like, ‘hey, it’s showtime’.Īngle says he regrets facing Guerrero shortly before his death (Image: WWE) He was really run down, his skin was not toned, it was really white. "Eddie was having problems with his energy. This was probably one month before he passed away, maybe two," Angle explained. "I never had a match that I wish I could have redone, but there was one night with Eddie Guerrero. But Angle admits there was one battle between them he wishes he could revisit shortly before Guerrero's sad and untimely death. The funny thing was they were on that night, and later that night John 'Bradshaw' Layfield - who likes to stir the pot - said: 'Why would you try and double leg an Olympic gold medallist?’ And Eddie says, ‘cause I’m fricking stupid that’s why’."īoth Angle and Guerrero had distinguished careers in the WWE after moving over from rival competitors in the late '90s and early noughties. He got in my face and he’s yelling and he’s spitting, so I pushed him, and when I did that he tried to double leg me, and I got him in a front facelock and started choking him out.Īngle admitted to once having an angry exchange backstage with Guerrero (Image: WWE) He was like, ‘yes you did, and your goonies too. "When we got backstage Eddie was p***ed, he was going crazy, ‘you f***ing hurt me or were trying to hurt me’. A couple of the guys from the faction I had with Luther Reigns, they laid into Eddie a bit too hard, they got heat on him a little bit in the ring, I didn’t touch Eddie. READ MORE: WWE legend Kurt Angle throws support behind Coventry as fans say 'we've seen it all now'Īsked on his own YouTube show if he saw or was ever in a fight backstage, Angle replied: "There was a night right before Eddie passed away, he wasn’t feeling good physically. ![]() He then opened up on a feisty exchange he had with his colleague which almost turned even uglier were it not for the Big Show - a.k.a Paul Wight - stepping in to diffuse the situation. "Eddie and I were like brothers, we played like brothers and we fought like brothers," Angle recalled. Olympic champion Angle was close friends with late WWE icon Guerrero - who tragically passed away from acute heart failure aged 38 in 2005. WWE legend Kurt Angle revealed he once started choking out Eddie Guerrero backstage after a heated row until the Big Show broke up their brawl.
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