Kurt Angle has finally addressed rumors of Triple H speaking badly about him during WWE meetings. Angle fielded questions in an "Ask Kurt Anything" segment during his podcast on AdFreeShows.com and revealed that it was never his idea to attend meetings during his early years with the promotion.

The former superstar revealed the suggestion came from Vince McMahon but it still got him heat with other members of the roster. He reckons Vince was trying to get him ready for a backstage role with the company, which he did end up taking on after returning and then retiring.

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Angle attended meetings for a year before choosing not to continue due to the attitude of other wrestlers changing towards him. Roster members were of the view that he was getting involved in backstage politics and were obviously unhappy about it, whether or not that was the case.

"My first year, and I started getting, you know, wrestlers were getting standoffish to me, and I felt like maybe me going to the meetings, they knew I was going there, and they thought maybe I was politicizing for myself and I wasn't, I never did," he explained, per Sportskeeda.com."I quit going to the meeting because of that"

As to whether or not HHH spoke poorly of him, Angle says it never happened in front of him and, if it did, he is not aware of it.

"But Triple H never said anything bad about me in the meetings, at least not when I was in there, but I don't know if it happened beforehand," he said. "I'm not really sure, but he always talked well of me as far as I know."

An Uncomfortable Position

Angle understood the position he was in when it came to other WWE wrestlers as it really might have appeared that he was getting involved in the affairs of the company behind the scenes.

Had he not appreciated how his colleagues might have felt, he probably wouldn't have opted to step down.

Source: The Kurt Angle Show (H/T Sportskeeda.com)

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