Daniel Puder Talks Kurt Angle, Bill Demott, WWE, Tough Enough

Daniel Puder isn't happy with the things worked out with WWE.

The former MMA Fighter and Tough Enough winner spoke recently to VOC Nation about the deal, his contract, and much more.  The former WWE star joined the Jordan Garber NOW podcast with Jordan Garber on Tuesday, October 4, 2016 to talk about his career in wrestling and the evolution of his persona for WWE.  In the interview, Daniel talks about his time starting out in the business, his experience as a contestant and winning Tough Enough, his incident with Kurt Angle and Bill DeMott. To keep up on future episodes visit VOCNation.com and follow Jordan Garber on Twitter @JordanJGarber
WWE not fulfilling his deal

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"I won the contract, people talk about different amounts, I got [a] quarter million my first year. They gave me a crappy deal at the end of the first year. I looked at the situation about how they were treating me when I was busting my butt. If they are just going to offer not what the agreement was than I'm not going to stick around and be a part of it."

Winning Tough Enough:

"I was on the SmackDown show. Miz was getting 75,000 unique hits on his website everyday and I was only getting like 50 or 60,000. I was like, 'I'm done, he won.' So I went out there and they were like, "You won," and I just went nuts. It was crazy."

Bill Demott:

"One time he bent my finger backwards when I didn't do a move right. DeMott held my finger back one day and I looked at him and I smiled and I said, 'are you going to break it or are you gonna show me how to do the move?' He never did it again and respected me for who I was. Very blessed to have him in my life. He's a hard ass and I got good because of it."

Kurt Angle:

"I kicked his butt back a little bit, and I showed him. I really pushed him he didn’t expect it coming like that and I just had a lot of fun with it."

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