Former WWE star Kurt Angle says 'I believe that I had a better career in TNA'

Kurt Angle is probably best known for his WWE run as he racked up six world titles and became the fifth Grand Slam champion in the company’s history.

He also came into the company with an Olympic gold medal on his resume, which is just as impressive.

Pro wrestling fans who follow the sport closely know that Angle was a beast in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).

He was a six-time world champion, a two-time tag team champion and an X Division champion during his near-decade run there.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK PRO WRESTLING COVERAGE Angle told OutKick Dropkick he believed he had a "better career" in TNA.

"To be honest with you, I had an incredible career in both WWE and TNA and I believe that I had a better career in TNA and, unfortunately, a lot of those WWE fans didn't get to see it and I think that they would have seen my career. … Now we have a lot of great TNA fans all over the world but here in the United States, it’s a far second place to, before AEW came around, but it was a far second place to WWE.

But I would have loved for the WWE fans to see me wrestle in TNA." Angle put on some great matches in TNA with Abyss, Samoa Joe, A.J.

Styles and the like.

But for a WWE fan who never saw him wrestle in TNA, he would point them to his matches against Joe and Styles.

"Any match with Samoa Joe or AJ Styles," he said on behalf of Gambling.com , the guide to the best online sportsbooks.

"It doesn't really matter.

My debut match against Samoa Joe at the pay-per-view, I think it might have been it might have been Bound for Glory, or right after it, but we had a banger of a match and I really enjoyed working with both of them.

Joe was really physical and AJ was really athletic." Angle added that Joe’s background as a ground-and-pound grappler worked well with his freestyle wrestling background.

Even with Styles flying around the ring at times when he was young, Angle said the two were able to mesh well.