UPDATE: Following our story, 5 Star Wrestling posted the following on their Facebook page:
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.
ORIGINAL: For those of you that have emailed us asking about Kurt Angle appearing at this Sunday’s Royal Rumble, it certainly isn’t out of the question. Angle certainly is not confirming or denying anything (skip to 2:35 in the clip below from Lilian Garcia’s podcast where she asks him about being a surprise entrant on Sunday).
We should note that Angle is no longer scheduled for Friday’s 5 Star Wrestling show in Dundee, UK. He was pulled from the show by WWE so that may be a sign of something. Granted, that show will be the debut broadcast on Spike TV in the UK so that may have something to do with it. If WWE doesn’t have plans for Angle outside of the Hall Of Fame then I don’t see why they would want to pull him from that show.
Either way, the pop in San Antonio will be huge if Angle comes out as a surprise entrant on Sunday. On a side note, as we noted earlier, Shawn Michaels will be in San Antonio on Sunday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWNimBBndOg
