Kurt Angle credited as playing...
Kurt Angle
- Triple H: You know, Kurt, you must think I'm an idiot. You think I don't know what goes on in this company still? You know, you put together a little package, I knew about your little package, but you know, Kurt, when I... I started to watch the video here before the night's events, I couldn't help but think to myself, "Maybe I was wrong about Kurt Angle. Maybe this whole thing is just a great big misunderstanding." You see, because it started to dawn on me, Kurt, you are a 30-year-old, prime-of-your-life, physical specimen of a man. You could be defined as a stud. But yet, in front of you stands a complete beauty. The face of an angel, the hair, the body, the personality, she is the total package. Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley, quite frankly, could be the perfect woman. But yet, you stand in front of her and look at her every week and say, "I just want to be her...
- [air quotes]
- Triple H: ..."'friend'." Now, what kind of a guy stands in front of a hot woman and just wants to be her... friend?
- Kurt Angle: What are you trying to say?
- Triple H: I mean, you'd like to be... "friends" with Steph, you'd like to hang out with Steph, you'd like to, maybe, go shopping for drapes with Steph. Hey, Kurt, no, listen, hey, don't get upset, okay? There's absolutely nothing wrong with that. This is the year 2000; alternative lifestyles are perfectly acceptable in this day and age. Kurt, if you're batting off the other side of the plate for the rest of us, that's okay. And I understand... Kurt, I can understand you're upset right now, okay? Maybe national television wasn't a good place for me to call you out on this. But it explains a lot, Kurt. I mean, all the looks you've been giving me and the little smirks... I mean, who are you trying to get close to here? Maybe it's time for you to come to terms with your true feelings. Maybe it's time for you to admit it yourself, Kurt. Maybe it's time to open the closet door, Kurt.
- [Mick Foley's music hits, and the crowd cheers as he comes out to join the trio in the ring]
- Commissioner Mick Foley: Triple H, I grew up in a family of amateur wrestlers; I may not have been on Kurt Angle's level, but I myself was an amateur wrestler. And Kurt Angle, may I say that nobody has more respect for what you did for your country in the '96 Olympics than Commissioner Mick Foley. Undoubtedly, you represented the United States in the 1996 Olympics, you were a member of the United States Olympic team. What I'm wondering, in the year 2000, is...
- [sharing a look with Hunter]
- Commissioner Mick Foley: ...what team are you playing for now? Now, Steph... Steph, nobody wants to see this little... triangle break up more than I do, and that is why the match at Unforgiven between Kurt Angle and Triple H has got to take place.
- Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley: No, Mick, no! No!
- Commissioner Mick Foley: And it's why I have made myself the special guest referee. But as far as you two guys trying to tear each other apart tonight, well, that's not going to happen.
- [the crowd boos]
- Commissioner Mick Foley: But that doesn't mean that you three can't see action right here tonight in Chicago, Illinois!
- [the crowd cheers]
- Commissioner Mick Foley: You see, this very strange happy family will see action when the team of T & A and Trish Stratus face Triple H, Kurt Angle, and... you, Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley. Thank you very much, and have a nice day!
- Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley: I've come out here tonight to put an end to something that should have ended a long time ago. Now, I know that I am a very special woman. And... and that men have been vying for my affection all my life. But this, what's going on right now, has gone too far. My life changed in the month of November 1999. What an amazing month it was for me; it... it wasn't, however, such a good month for Stone Cold Steve Austin.
- [a mixture of cheers and jeers from the crowd]
- Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley: Who was, very tragically, run over by an automobile. But I had nothing to do with that. That was the month, however, that I married the greatest man a girl could ever marry, the Game, Triple H. And, ironically, it was the same month that my good friend Kurt Angle made his debut here in the WWF. That's what makes what's happening now, only ten months later, so inconceivable to me. I mean, what's going on between my husband and my good friend is... it's petty, it's ugly, and... and it's a brutal mess.
- [the crowd chants "slut" at her]
- Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley: That's why I'm asking Commissioner Mick Foley to come out here and...
- [the crowd cheers at the mention of Mick's name]
- Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley: And cancel the match between Triple H and Kurt Angle scheduled for this Sunday at Unforgiven. Because if this match is to continue...
- [the crowd starts a "Foley" chant]
- Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley: Thank you. If this match is continue, then I would be a very unhappy woman. And-and, Mick, I can assure you that none of these people here in this arena, nobody at home, and no one close to me would ever want to see me unhappy.
- [Kurt's music hits instead, and he joins Stephanie in the ring]
- Kurt Angle: Steph, I just want to say how much I admire your courage. To be able to come out here in front of a roughneck city like Chicago...
- [the crowd boos]
- Kurt Angle: Oh, it's true. It's true. Instead of staying at home and watching, say, the Olympic Games, which is where I won these prestigious gold medals four years ago, by the way. Yeah, take a look. Steph, that really says a lot about you. But this match at Unforgiven has to take place as scheduled. It has to, Steph, because if I don't do something...
- [the crowd starts an "asshole" chant]
- Kurt Angle: If I don't teach Triple H a lesson, while I have the opportunity, you're gonna be a lot unhappier than you are right now. And believe me, Steph, even last November, when I debuted at Survivor Series, which happens to be the night that Stone Cold Steve Austin got run over, but it was just a coincidence, it's true, it's true. Even back then, I knew that Triple H was a bad guy, oh, yeah. And, Steph, I understand that I'm the one recovering from a concussion, but, Steph, you seem to be the one who's lost her memory. No, Steph, I'm not gonna say another word. If you don't see what I'm trying to say, if you don't see what I'm trying to do, then I will walk out of here like the Chicago Bears last night.
- [the crowd boos at the insult]
- Kurt Angle: A humbled, defeated loser, it's true. Please show the footage.
- [on the TitanTron, a selectively-edited video montage of Hunter's apparent abuse of Stephanie is shown]
- Kurt Angle: Now, Steph, I'm sorry I had to show you that again. And maybe the first time was an accident. Maybe the second time was a pure coincidence. But the third, fourth, and fifth times, I don't think so.