Kurt Angle Wants Wrestling To “Go Back To The Way It Was” With Storytelling

A return to a greater focus on selling and storytelling is the direction wrestling should go, according to Kurt Angle.

The WWE Hall of Famer has not competed since his WrestleMania 35 loss to Baron Corbin but has appeared for WWE several times since then.

Speaking on his “Kurt Angle Podcast,” the Olympian addressed the kind of changes he’d like to see. He said,

“Pro wrestling today is a lot different. It’s a lot more high action, a little more high flying, a lot of acrobatics, they do less selling, less storytelling. I just think that pro wrestling, these guys should go back to the way it was. Start doing some chain wrestling and certain techniques to make it basic, because that’s the art of the sport.

“It’s telling the story, having the good guy outwrestle the bad guy at the beginning, then having the bad guy cut the good guy down and get heat on him, and then have the good guy make the comeback and you have the finish. Does the bad guy cheat and win, or does the good guy overcome and win? These are simple ways of doing it, and the thing is, now we got complicated. Now you don’t know who the babyface or the heel is.”

Angle’s most recent appearance for WWE came during the RAW is XXX event in January of this year.

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