According to the man himself, former WWE World Champion Kurt Angle has been telling independent promotions that he is coming back to WWE in time for WrestleMania 33.

The highly-respected Wrestling Observer notes that this should be taken with a grain of salt, as there has been no rumblings within the company to bring Angle back to WWE. Angle has made these claims in the past, but obviously he hasn’t been seen with the company since 2005.

Last year around this time, there were talks about bringing Angle in, but WWE only wanted him in a full-time main roster role, which Angle turned down as we wanted a strict part-time schedule, similar to what Brock Lesnar, Undertaker and others have. It was reported that Vince McMahon and Paul “Triple H” Levesque didn’t want to sign him to a part-time contract and do still have concerns about Angle’s personal demons.

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