You've probably heard about the infamous "Plane Ride From Hell" way back in 2002, but WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle is the latest wrestler to share their take on what happened. During a recent edition of The Kurt Angle Show, the Olympic Gold Medallist reflected on Vince McMahon's insane behaviour.
"It was the longest night of my life," Angle said. "Vince had a few glasses of wine and he was feeling frisky and he thought, 'Hey, why not? If I’m going to wrestle someone why not if it’s the best, might as well wrestle an Olympic gold medalist, I’m going to try him out.' He was jumping on me or he would have somebody come up to me and say they wanted to talk to me at the back of the plane and I would get up and he’d jump me from behind."
"We did it for five hours. Wrestle a few minutes, I hold him down, I say ‘Are you good?’ He’d say ‘Yeah, we’re good,’ I go back and lay down and he would jump on me again or have someone call me up and jump on me again," Angle continued. "It went for 5 hours and it became very irritating."
Angle went on to explain that Vince got into a heated discussion with a flight attendant because "Vince and I were wrestling near the door, the latch, you open the latch and push it open, the doors open and you fly out the plane. We kept hitting the latch while we were wrestling, so the flight attendant came and said ‘Hey, the pilot said if you don’t sit down and stop he’s going to land this plane right now.’ And Vince says ‘Go tell the pilot to f*** himself, I’ll buy the f***ing plane.’"
Despite very nearly causing a plane crash, Vince was relentless, and even as the plane was about to land, Angle saw Vince crawling up the aisle in a bid to attempt to once again wrestle him.
We know the WWE Chairman is a pretty unique character, but this...well, it's pretty freaking crazy!