Kurt Angle spoke on his podcast about working with Taz in WWE in 2000. They most notably had a match at the Royal Rumble that year.
“I would have loved to have had a program with Taz,” Angle said. “He was an incredible wrestler, especially good on the microphone. He had a lot of talent.”
Taz had to wind down his career due to injuries. Angle went into detail about how he saw Taz’s character, but Vince McMahon didn’t have a clue.
“I think the reason was Vince McMahon had this idea of Taz being a smaller guy and selling for the big guys and never giving up,” Angle said. “Taz had in his mind that he wanted to be a dominant wrestler and just beat everybody up dominantly. They didn’t want him to be, he didn’t himself want to be the underdog that was fighting from underneath.
“I think that’s the reason why they kind of ended Taz’s career a little bit early, because he had a different idea than what the creative had for him. Then they made him a commentary. That was pretty much the end of Taz’s career. I don’t think he lasted much longer afterwards.”
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