No one can know for sure, but here's how I think it would have went. He wouldn't have been held off tv for aslong as the WWE did so he'd be thrown in there in 98 instead of 99. The gap between the main event and the midcard would be pretty tough to bridge so I'm guessing he'd get a decent amount of fan fare at first from the announcers but wouldn't be seen on tv with Hogan or Nash or any of those guys.

I'm thinking Angle would debut being touted as an olympic gold medalist and would be confronted by Earnest "The Cat" Miller who would have some "legit athlete" beef with him. Miller and Angle would then fight on the undercard of one ppv and the feud would be put to bed and never spoken of again.

Angle would then disappear from television for a few weeks because this happened all the time when they didn't know what the hell to do with somebody.

Angle would re-appear and this time probably do a little better for himself in there with the likes of Benoit, DDP, Raven and eventually probably Bret Hart. But WCW doesn't work with him on his character because everyone was sort of on their own so Angle sticks with his straight laced "good guy" image. You know, the same one that caused him to walk out on an ECW event and threaten to sue Paul Heyman over. And this would get him no where because the WWE had to turn him heel right off the bat because he was getting booed at house shows.

After a while Angle would show up every so often and lose. He'd be caught in that strange place where nobody wants to push him because they don't know what to do with him but he's too expensive to keep off of tv. More than a few guys had that problem.

Finally Bischoff would be out and in comes Russo. Russo is a moron but he knows one thing... Turning straight laced goody goodies into complete assholes is funny. So Russo would slap Angle with some sort of "Pervert" gimmick where he insists on giving wrestling lessons to the Nitro girls. He might even put his gold medal on a big gold chain and make angle where a leisure suit ala Leisure suit Larry.

Then the "Reboot" would happen and Angle would talk about how he's tired of not being taken seriously and how he demands respect... "So from this day forth you can call me Private Stache!". (Sorry Van Hammer, you're out of the Misfits!) He'd wear an army hat and a fake mustache and run with the misfits before the next reboot where everyone was back to their serious personas.

One week after his stint as Private Stache ends he'll be transformed into a super serious shooter and capture the WCW championship from Scott Steiner. Shortly there after WCW folds and Angle is too rich and disenchanted with pro-wrestling to accept Vince's offer to buy out his contract. So ends the wrestling career of Kurt Angle.

What do you guys think?

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