Rey Mysterio Reveals Kurt Angle Personally Selected Him As Opponent For WWE SummerSlam 2002

Kurt Angle wanted to share the ring with Rey.

The Undertaker welcomed WWE and AAA Hall of Famer Rey Mysterio onto his Six Feet Under podcast. As the conversation moved along, Mysterio began speaking about those who helped him adjust to WWE when he first joined the company.

One of those names was Kurt Angle. Mysterio shared that Angle had three choices for an opponent at the 2002 SummerSlam event, and Angle chose Rey.

“Again, we don’t do this work on our own. We always need that guidance. The right person, opponent to work with that’ll build you up to the next level, and the first one to kind of pull me aside was Kurt Angle, at that time. I remember he told me they gave him three opponents to work with for SummerSlam which was my first pay-per-view with WWE, in Long Island, and he said, ‘I chose you. I’ve always wanted to work with you since I’ve seen you in WCW.’ I’m like, ‘Oh, truly honored,’ and he was like the first guy that kind of pulled me under his wing and was learning all these new methods of how to make my craft much better…”

In addition to remaining active in the ring, Mysterio is also the General Manager of Lucha Libre AAA.

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