Kurt Angle was recently a guest on CBS Sports’ “In This Corner Podcast”. During the podcast, he spoke about his current storyline with Jason Jordan.
Fans have become increasingly annoyed with Jordan and his whiny character over the past few months. Jordan receives a loud but negative reaction from fans when he appears on Monday Night RAW. Wait, was this the plan all along?
According to Kurt Angle on the podcast, Vince McMahon knew that fans would react to Jordan this way:
“You know what’s crazy? Everything that the fans have gone through the last three or four months, most of the fans can’t stand him. A lot of the fans are saying, ‘He’s getting the wrong kind of heat because we really don’t like him for real.’
“Everything that has occurred up until now, Vince [McMahon] already knew how they were going to react, so this has been working. As many fans will say ‘it’s not working’ and ‘get rid of him’ or ‘I’m not buying it,’ now that the storyline has started to span out and developing further, it was a good fit. Jason is doing a great job, and he has carried the storyline very well. We will see where it goes from here but it should be pretty intriguing.”
Angle also says that he knew that fans would be sick of Jordan with the way that they are presenting him:
“Yes, yes. We knew, and I knew personally, that this was going to make the fans sick to their stomach [of Jordan], but I wasn’t concerned about how it was going to develop and where it is going to go from here on. It’s going to be a pretty cool storyline, and I think a lot of fans are going to say, ‘You know what? This kid deserves to be in the main event level.'”
Angle praises the in-ring ability of Jordan, saying that he is one of the best in-ring talents in WWE today. He also says that he is getting better on a weekly basis.
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