Kurt Angle returned to the WWE earlier this year for the first time since he departed the company after his first run ended in 2006.

He was met with open arms and thunderous applause by the WWE and their fans as he was inducted into the Hall of Fame during WrestleMania 33 weekend, and announced as Monday Night RAW's general manager the following Monday after Mick Foley's departure.

During his first run with WWE, Angle feuded with Eddie Guerrero in late 2003, and throughout 2004. The two legends of the business even had a match with the WWE championship on the line at WrestleMania XX. 

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Speaking recently on the Talk is Jericho podcast, The Olympic Hero retold a story where he and Latino Heat got into an altercation backstage during this feud. Angle said Guerrero attempted a double-leg takedown on him, so he proceeded to choke him out in retaliation, according to Wrestling Inc.

He said: "We had to jump Eddie out in the ring and I didn't touch him, but we had these two big goon guys, Mark Jindrak and Luther Reigns! Horshu. They're beating the hell out of Eddie, so we get heat on him at the end of the show. I'm in the back. I'm waiting for Eddie because I wanted to thank him, but I didn't touch him.

"He comes straight up to me and blames me for it, so this is like the fifth time he confronted me about it in about a month, so I shoved him. I just wanted to see what he would do. And he didn't do anything, so I shoved him again and he double-legs me.

"I mean, you could've sucker punched me, but he double-legs me. And I'm like, 'he did not just try to double-leg an Olympic gold medalist, so I laid the hips into him and then I started choking him out nice and slow."

The Olympic Hero said not long after the fight was over, he wanted to apologize to Latino Heat, but instead, another fight again. It wasn't until a week later that his apology was accepted.

"Now, Eddie and I got in a fight and I wanted to make amends with him and you know Eddie has a temper, so five minutes after that fight, I walk in, I said, 'I'm sorry, Eddie.' I say, 'I'm sorry about what happened.' He goes, 'I'm not ready yet.' Oh, God! So I go, 'you what?' He goes, 'I'm not ready to be sorry,' so I push him again!

"I want to fight this poor kid. He doesn't want to double-leg me again, so he's just standing there and JBL got in between us. So I tried to call him that night and he wasn't ready again, but the next week, he came to me and apologized and we both made up.

"And Eddie and I were brothers. My brother Eric and I, we fought all the time, so I didn't mind. I mean, I knew Eddie was very much like my brother, Eric, had a temper, and was going to let it fly ever once in a while and we would get over it and we did.

"Eddie got mad at me a million times, but knowing he was exactly like my brother, Eric, okay, we can forgive each other the next day and move on. But the whole, 'I'm not ready yet,' I wanted to kick his butt."