Kurt Angle Drops Big Hint About His Return to WWE Ring

Not long ago, the sentiment in the wrestling world was that RAW GM, Kurt Angle would have a match of his own at SummerSlam. Obviously that’s not happening, however, the WWE Hall of Famer all but guaranteed he’d once again step in a WWE ring as a competitor.

In an interview with Between the Ropes, Angle shed light on his in-ring ambitions:

“I love it, I’ve always loved being around the business. But to be the General Manager of Raw is a huge honor. I still get that feeling that I want to get back in that ring and go at it. Hopefully down the road I take a physical and we get moving in that direction but right now I’m very happy being the GM.”

But Angle has more than aspiration, he has a target start date:

“I’m looking probably early next year. It’s all going to be up to Vince (McMahon). He’s making the decisions. He just started a storyline with Jason Jordan and myself and I think a lot of good things are coming down the road.”

Angle’s return sounds like more like when not if. He’s been the cornerstone for this Jason Jordan storyline so maybe this s the vehicle WWE will use to get him back in the ring. Then again, a lot can happen in the next 6 months or so.

Since returning to WWE, Angle has not been shy about prepping for a return to ring action. In an interview with Esquire, Angle wasn’t too subtle about wrestling in WWE in the near future:

“Well right now I’m just concentrating on my behind-the-scenes role as General Manager. I haven’t even had a physical yet and I don’t expect I will have one until they [the WWE] have some more detail of what they want me to do down the line. But is there a possibility? Yeah, there is a definite possibility!” he said.

“I think it’s more than likely it will happen. I don’t know if it has to do with this new storyline that’s going on right now, but I’m sure that it will happen eventually. I still haven’t taken a physical though so I’m not going to get my hopes up until I do that,” Angle added.

If that weren’t enough, Angle has an emotional incentive to hop back in the ring one more time:

“Well I have three little ones who have actually never seen me wrestle – a 6-year-old, a 4-year-old, and a 7-month-old – so I’ve always wanted to return to them. I want to show them what daddy can really do,” he said.

We can’t expect the Olympic gold medalist to come back as a full-time wrestler, but more like one big match at Wrestlemania 34. If we had to guess, it’ll be a struggle for WWE power against Triple H. But this far away from the comeback, any guess is a good one.