Some of you may recall when Daniel Puder got the you know what kicked out of him during the 2005 WWE Royal Rumble. In the ‘Rumble match itself, Eddie Guerrero, Chris Benoit and Bob Holly chopped Puder over and over and over again.
Puder, who had won his season of Tough Enough, was featured in a segment with Kurt Angle just three months earlier on SmackDown. The segment resulted on Puder facing off against Angle in a losing effort. Puder would go on to enter the Royal Rumble match at #3 and was brutally beaten prior to being thrown over the top rope.
During a recent interview with Bubba The Love Sponge, Angle commented on the incident and why it happened the way it did.
You can check out some highlights from the interview below:
On his segment with Puder: “When he got in the arm bar — I broke my neck like three months prior. So my — I couldn’t do three push-ups. I had no strength in my upper body, so my arm was vulnerable. And I shouldn’t have been in that position, wrestling Puder or any of those other guys from Tough Enough. And when I did it, that’s the reason why he got me in the arm bar… the thing is, what Daniel did to me, it wasn’t his fault. He just didn’t know this was supposed to be a wrestling match. He just thought he was gonna, you know, try to make me tap out.”
On why Puder got beat on during the Royal Rumble: “What happened was, he started getting really arrogant and like, telling people he was in the main event of the Royal Rumble. Because he was going to be in the Rumble [match], he thought he was in the main event. Meanwhile, he’s not even a wrestler yet. And guys heard about that and went, ‘Okay, this guy’s an a**hole.’ So at the Royal Rumble, they made sure the first four entrants were Puder, Eddie Guerrero, Chris Benoit and Bob Holly. So when Puder went in, Eddie went in and started chopping the s**t out of him. Benoit came in, started chopping the s**t out of him. Holly went in, started chopping the s**t out of him. They beat the crap out of this kid and threw him over the top rope. And it was done. And you know what, his career never got better after that.”
