This wasn't supposed to happen. Spike Dudley was supposed to be in the ring with Rob Van Dam. Instead, Spike was on his back howling in tremendous pain. Kurt Angle had stormed the ring as the match was getting underway, grabbed the youngest Dudley brother in a waist lock, and suplexed him right on his neck.
Kurt Angle knew very much about injuries, including how to cause them. He had just intentionally caused one and was about to cause a second. The Olympian wasted no time taking down RVD and applying a bone-snapping ankle lock…literally. Van Dam crumpled up into a quaking ball, clutching at his now broken ankle.
Not wanting to be his third victim that evening, ring announcer Tony Chimell handed Angle a microphone.
"You see that?!" Kurt asked the SmackDown crowd as he pointed to the men he had just hurt. "Now that is hardcore! Not a bunch of guys swinging chairs. Not guys breaking tables. THAT is hardcore! Kurt Angle is hardcore!
"I won Olympic gold with a broken freakin' neck. I came back from another broken neck and won the WWE title. I got dropped twenty feet by The Big Show, and came back better than ever. I'm more hardcore than anybody on this show. In fact, I'm the most hardcore wrestler on the gosh-darn planet!
I don't appreciate some new ECW starting up, and not offering me a spot on the roster. I clearly deserve it. I don't need weapons to get extreme. I can hurt people with my awesome natural talent. But ECW doesn't want talented wrestlers. They want people like Mick Foley to kill himself every night. They want blood, and guts, and wrestling that isn't wrestling at all! Those so-called 'extreme' wrestlers wouldn't know hardcore if it bit 'em in the butt.
Well I'm not going to stand for it. That's why I'm against ECW. That's why I support Mick Foley. And that's why I'm going to take it upon myself to show the world what real extreme wrestling is all about. All you people at ECW can either quit that garbage wrestling, or I can make you quit.
Oh it's true. It's damn true."
Kurt Angle knew very much about injuries, including how to cause them. He had just intentionally caused one and was about to cause a second. The Olympian wasted no time taking down RVD and applying a bone-snapping ankle lock…literally. Van Dam crumpled up into a quaking ball, clutching at his now broken ankle.
Not wanting to be his third victim that evening, ring announcer Tony Chimell handed Angle a microphone.
"You see that?!" Kurt asked the SmackDown crowd as he pointed to the men he had just hurt. "Now that is hardcore! Not a bunch of guys swinging chairs. Not guys breaking tables. THAT is hardcore! Kurt Angle is hardcore!
"I won Olympic gold with a broken freakin' neck. I came back from another broken neck and won the WWE title. I got dropped twenty feet by The Big Show, and came back better than ever. I'm more hardcore than anybody on this show. In fact, I'm the most hardcore wrestler on the gosh-darn planet!
I don't appreciate some new ECW starting up, and not offering me a spot on the roster. I clearly deserve it. I don't need weapons to get extreme. I can hurt people with my awesome natural talent. But ECW doesn't want talented wrestlers. They want people like Mick Foley to kill himself every night. They want blood, and guts, and wrestling that isn't wrestling at all! Those so-called 'extreme' wrestlers wouldn't know hardcore if it bit 'em in the butt.
Well I'm not going to stand for it. That's why I'm against ECW. That's why I support Mick Foley. And that's why I'm going to take it upon myself to show the world what real extreme wrestling is all about. All you people at ECW can either quit that garbage wrestling, or I can make you quit.
Oh it's true. It's damn true."