{"id":39014,"date":"2017-02-19T22:42:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T04:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=39014"},"modified":"2017-02-19T22:42:43","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T04:42:43","slug":"interview-highlights-kurt-angle-gives-list-four-people-short-list-induct-hall-fame-reaction-linda-mcmahon-trump-admin-cena-amateur-vs-wwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/02\/19\/interview-highlights-kurt-angle-gives-list-four-people-short-list-induct-hall-fame-reaction-linda-mcmahon-trump-admin-cena-amateur-vs-wwe\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview Highlights: Kurt Angle gives his list of four people on his short list to induct him into Hall of Fame, reaction to Linda McMahon in Trump Admin, Cena, Amateur vs. WWE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-820858489\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p><em>The following interview highlights were submitted to PWTorch featuring Kurt Angle&#8217;s discussing Linda McMahon in President Trump&#8217;s cabinet, Angle on John Cena being the Great of All Time, and his short-list of potential Hall of Fame inductors&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>\u2022On Linda McMahon:\u00a0<\/b>&#8220;She has done the business aspect of that company for all this time. She deserves that. If anybody is going to be able to represent the United States for small businesses, it&#8217;s Linda McMahon.\u00a0She has taken WWE from a semi-small company into a worldwide mecca. She singlehandedly did that. Vince was more the hands-on approach, as far as entertainment was concerned, but Linda McMahon deserves that job more than anybody and I&#8217;m so happy for her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>\u2022On amateur wrestling vs. WWE:\u00a0<\/b>&#8220;The issue with wrestlers going to wrestling, or sports entertainment, is you have to forget everything you learned if you wrestled for 20 years. It&#8217;s a tougher way because you have to include the crowd, you have to show emotion, you have to show anger, fear excitement which wrestlers never do. You go out there and you show no emotion, you just go out there and kill.\u00a0In pro wrestling, you have to remember the whole match. If you have a 30-minute match, there are a lot of spots in there so it&#8217;s a lot tougher to transition. I would say any other sport than wrestling is a better avenue to get into sports entertainment than wrestling itself, but there are guys out there who have done a tremendous job especially after I have come through, you&#8217;ve got Brock Lesnar, you&#8217;ve have\u00a0Charlie Haas and Shelton Benjamin, you have\u00a0Jack Swagger you have Dolph Zggler, these are all guys who were former All-Americans in college. So there are former wrestlers making that transition but it is very, very tough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>\u2022On John Cena being the G.O.A.T.:\u00a0<\/b>&#8220;John Cena is the man. 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