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– During the debut episode of The Kurt Angle Show on Ad Free Shows, WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle spoke to Conrad Thompson on his severe neck injury and need for neck surgery in 2003, which nearly caused Angle to sit out WrestleMania 19 that year. Angle revealed the initial plan was to have Angle drop the title Brock Lesnar before WrestleMania, and Chris Benoit would then serve as Angle’s substitute for the match. Ultimately, the Angle vs. Lesnar match did go forward and headlined WrestleMania 19. Below are some highlights (via Fightful):
Angle on his neck injury heading into WrestleMania 19: “I told Vince, I’m going to have to have surgery and I’m going to have to skip WrestleMania. He said, you know, I’ll call you back. I have an idea, let me talk to the writers, I’ll call you back. So he decided that we were going to have a match before WrestleMania on SmackDown and I was going to drop the title to Brock and I believe Brock was going to go to WrestleMania and face a
Kurt Angle Reveals Chris Benoit Was Set To Replace Him At WWE WrestleMania 19 Posted By: Ben Kerin on Jan 29, 2021
During the very first episode of The Kurt Angle Show podcast, WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle discussed the main eventing WrestleMania 19 in 2003 and almost missing the event due to neck issues. At first, when I came back from South Africa and I got the diagnosis from the doctor, I told Vince I’m going to have to have surgery and I’m going to have to skip WrestleMania. He said, ‘I’ll call you back. I have an idea. Let me talk to the writers.’