5 WWE Superstars Shane McMahon is friends with in real life

#3 Kurt Angle is friends with Shane McMahon

Shane McMahon’s friendship with Kurt Angle was highlighted in a WWE Network documentary shortly after Angle returned to WWE in 2017.

WWE’s cameras caught the Olympic Gold medallist sitting by himself in the crowd before a SmackDown event. Shane McMahon, who worked as the SmackDown Commissioner at the time, called his former in-ring rival over and jokingly tried to wrestle him.

“He was sitting there. He’s very pensive and he’s thinking – he’s always thinking, always doing stuff – and I said, ‘Hey, come here for a second.’ It’s like you call one of your best friends and you haven’t spoken to them in several years and you pick right up where you left off. That’s a good foundation you’ve built and that’s a solid friendship.”

The most memorable WWE match involving both Shane McMahon and Angle came at the 2001 King of the Ring pay-per-view, where Angle famously launched his opponent through panes of glass near the entrance ramp.

Shane McMahon joked about the match with Angle in the WWE Network video, which you can see above, and even claimed they would be able to have a better match in 2017.