Kurt Angle got his professional wrestling career started in a WWE ring, but he hasn't appeared in the company since 2006.
The "Olympic Hero" has always been open about wanting to close out his career in Vince McMahon's company, but thus far, the WWE has balked on bringing him back. Even with the current brand split and need for veterans to round out the rosters, Angle has been kept away from the company.
Shane McMahon, who is currently the commissioner of the "SmackDown Live" brand and wrestled Angle at King of the Ring in 2001, addressed the possiblity of the former WWE Champion returning to the fold.
"I don't know enough about Kurt over the last several years," McMahon told the Cheap Heat Podcast (via WrestlingInc). "I don't know where his health is or any of those issues. But again, if you rewind the clock and go back to the time we had with Kurt Angle and I at the King Of The Ring. Personally, I'd love to do that again. I'd give that a shot. But again, sometimes the business, as we get older, unfortunately, in the business, the brain will say 'go' and the body will say 'no'. And at some point, there's a time you just have to pick a different path."
Angle, 47, hasn't competed in a WWE ring since 2006, but he's had a highly-decorated career in TNA in the interim. The WWE has always been skeptical about bringing Angle back due to his personal demons, but speculation that an eventual reunion could be in the works has run rampant and even forced him to address it himself.
The former Olympian commented on a conversation he had with the WWE prior to the Draft on July 19.
"In response to some of your questions today regarding the WWE, and all of the media fanfare about it the last few days, I want to, once again, say that our confidential conversation never discussed the brand split," Angle wrote on Facebook. "A few wrestling sites seem to have put a spin on this by twisting some words around to fit their agenda, something that I have no control over. What I CAN control is my own life, and my life isn't only wrestling. I do not expect to be in wrestling much longer. I AM excited about my future. Thank you."
Angle, who won a gold medal in 1996, made his WWE debut in 1999 and remained there until 2006, racking up four WWE World Heavyweight Championship reigns. He also had a very successful TNA run, winning Dixie Carter's promotion's richest prize six times and getting inducted into the TNA Hall of Fame in 2013,
Whether or not he enters a WWE ring ever again remains to be seen.
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