Hmmmm.
A little more than a week ago, Drew Galloway announced his involvement with the latest company to try and get a televised wrestling show going in the United Kingdom. One of the big names attached to the show, Dominant Wrestling - a Jan. 28 event in Scotland from 5 Star Wrestling which will air on Spike UK, was Kurt Angle.
Of course, exactly a week ago, WWE announced Angle as the first member of their 2017 Hall of Fame class. While neither Kurt nor the company has spoken on his in-ring future, it’s been a source of intense speculation among fans. And this news won’t exactly lead to an end to that.
On their Facebook page, 5 Star announced that Angle has pulled out of the show, for which he was supposed to serve as color commentator:
At 16:04 today I received a call from Kurt Angle's management team confirming the rumours that Kurt will not be commentating on the debut episode of Dominant Wrestling, which airs live on Spike TV at 8pm this Saturday, from the Dundee Ice Arena.
It's a shame but we would like to congratulate Kurt on his Hall of Fame appointment.
Losing a star as respected as Kurt is obviously a blow to us but fortunately he was booked as a commentator rather than a wrestler so it's not like this will make much of a difference to this historic event.
Fans at the Dundee Ice Arena and indeed around the UK, will still get to witness John Morrison issuing an open challenge for his 5 Star Championship and with megastars such as Rey Mysterio, Drew Galloway, Carlito, PJ Black, Nick Aldis and Moose on the show, anything can happen.
Greg Lambert, with his encyclopaedic knowledge of wrestling will still lead the broadcast team as planned.
Now, the likely explanation is that - like the talent from the United Kingdom Championship Tournament WWE’s pulled from shows last week - the company simply won’t allow a guy signed to any kind of deal with them to appear on television for another company.
But... it could mean Kurt’s needed in Texas on Sunday, Jan. 29 to do something at Royal Rumble, so he can’t be in Scotland on Saturday, Jan. 28.
Isn’t conjecture fun?