Kurt Angle Comments On WWE Dark Match With Owen Hart

WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle has opened up about wrestling Owen Hart in a dark match days before Owen tragically passed away.

The Olympic Hero wrestled Owen in a non-televised match prior to a TV taping on May 10, 1999, just 12 days before Hart's fatal accident at Over the Edge 1999.

Discussing the match during an Inside the Ropes live event, Angle said:

"Vince McMahon decided to have a dark match with Owen Hart and myself. At the time I had just started and I didn't really know what I was doing. Owen said, 'Don't worry, I'll call it in the ring'. I'm like 'holy sh*t, don't say that' because I don't know how to call it in the ring. He said 'don't worry, just listen to me and let me lead you'". 

Kurt said that Owen carried him to a great match and believes that the youngest Hart brother doesn't get the credit he deserves.

"We had one of the best 15-minute matches and he made me build my confidence to a level that it never was before because he carried me through this match, and the match turned out to be a pretty damn good match. And I had just started a couple of months prior to that. So Owen Hart, he doesn't get enough credit for how good he was. I think Bret gets most of the credit for being the best wrestler in the family, but Owen Hart was every bit as good as Bret Hart".

Angle would make his official in-ring WWE debut six months later at the Survivor Series pay-per-view.

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