Kurt Angle versus Kimbo Slice on a UFC pay-per-view card?
Keep dreaming…
UFC President Dana White recently spoke to MMAWeekly.com about the former WWE superstar’s claims that he was contacted multiple times by the promotion and offered a pay-per-view slot against Slice.
“I like Kurt Angle. He’s a nice guy. I’ve never had any problems with Kurt Angle, good guy. Kurt Angle was calling me to fight in the UFC. He wanted to fight in the UFC, and he wanted to come over here or whatever, especially after Brock got in,” White said.
“What I offered [Angle] was, I said, here’s what I’ll do: ‘I’ll put you on The Ultimate Fighter during the heavyweight season when Kimbo was on.’ I was gonna put him on The Ultimate Fighter. He wanted to do it. We worked out a deal, and he didn’t pass the medicals.”
White wouldn’t go into any further details of Angle’s failed medicals.
In an exclusive interview with The Void, Angle admitted the window has closed on him as far as MMA is concerned, and he hopes to make the 2012 U.S. Olympic wrestling team.
As far as a potential contract with the UFC goes, it looks like it all stemmed from a possible appearance on season 10 of The Ultimate Fighter.
According to White, this is all that was ever offered to Angle.
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