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[[Image:Kurt and karen tna.jpg‎ |thumb|right|200px|Kurt and Karen Angle at TNA Impact taping in Orlando Florida. Photo by Rob Beukema]]



A few weeks after his WWE tenure had ended, Angle signed a contract with [[Total Nonstop Action Wrestling]] (TNA). On [[September 24]] [[2006]] during the closing segment of the pay-per-view [[TNA No Surrender#2006|No Surrender]], TNA President [[Dixie Carter (professional wrestling)|Dixie Carter]] announced that TNA Wrestling had signed Angle to a contract, with [[Jim Cornette]] introducing video footage of Angle training in a six-sided TNA ring.<ref>PWI Staff. Pro Wrestling Illustrated presents: 2007 Wrestling almanac & book of facts. "Wrestling’s historical cards" (p. 126-127)</ref>
A few weeks after his WWE tenure had ended, Angle signed a contract with [[Total Nonstop Action Wrestling]] (TNA). On [[September 24]] [[2006]] during the closing segment of the pay-per-view [[TNA No Surrender#2006|No Surrender]], TNA President [[Dixie Carter (professional wrestling)|Dixie Carter]] announced that TNA Wrestling had signed Angle to a contract, with [[Jim Cornette]] introducing video footage of Angle training in a six-sided TNA ring.<ref>PWI Staff. Pro Wrestling Illustrated presents: 2007 Wrestling almanac & book of facts. "Wrestling’s historical cards" (p. 126-127)</ref>


Revision as of 14:38, 28 August 2007

Kurt Angle United States
Born (1968-12-09) December 9, 1968 (age 55)
Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)Kurt Angle
Billed height5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)[1]
Billed weight[undue weight? – discuss][1]
Trained byDory Funk, Jr.
Tom Prichard
DebutOctober 1998

Kurt Steven Angle (born December 9 1968 in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania) is an American professional wrestler and former Olympic amateur wrestler. He is currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where he currently holds all three of the championships: World Heavyweight, Tag Team, and X Division. He is the second wrestler in TNA to win the Triple Crown. Angle also makes appearances for the Japan based Inoki Genome Federation (IGF), where he is the current IWGP Third Belt Champion (recognized by IGF and TNA as the IWGP World Championship and by the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) as the NWA Japan Championship).[4]

He earned numerous accolades before winning an Olympic gold medal in heavyweight freestyle wrestling at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. Between 1998 and 2006, Angle wrestled for the World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment, where he won six World Championships.

Amateur career

Angle attended Mt. Lebanon High School,[5] where he won varsity letters in football and wrestling and was an All-State linebacker.[6][5][7] Angle went undefeated on the freshman wrestling team at Mt. Lebanon High and qualified for the state wrestling tournament his sophomore year.[5] He also placed third in the state wrestling tournament as a junior and was the 1987 Pennsylvania State Wrestling Champion as a senior.

Upon graduating from high school, Angle attended the Clarion University of Pennsylvania, where he continued to wrestle at an amateur level.[8] He was a two-time National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I champion,[9] national runner-up in 1991, and a 3-time NCAA Division I All-American. In addition, Angle was the 1987 USA Junior Freestyle champion, a 2-time USA Senior Freestyle champion, and the 1988 USA International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles Junior World Freestyle champion.[10]

Upon graduating from college, Angle continued to wrestle. In 1995, he won a gold medal at the World Championships in Atlanta, Georgia.[9] Following this victory, Angle began preparing for the 1996 Summer Olympics under Dave Schultz at the Pennsylvanian Foxcatcher Club,[11] training between eight and ten hours a day.[12] In January 1996, not long after Angle began training at the club, Schultz was murdered.[13] While taking part in the 1996 Olympic Trials, Angle suffered a severe neck injury, fracturing two of his cervical vertebrae,[14] herniating two discs, and pulling four muscles. Angle won the trials nonetheless and then spent the subsequent five months resting and rehabilitating. By the Olympics, Angle was able to compete, albeit with several pain-reducing injections in his neck.[9] The injury led to Angle's future claim of having won his Olympic gold medal "with a broken freakin' neck." In October 2006, Angle stated that he temporarily became addicted to the analgesic Vicodin after breaking his neck.[15]

Kurt Angle
Medal record
Men's Freestyle Wrestling


Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1996 Atlanta 100 kg


World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1995 Chattanooga, USA 100 kg


World Cup
Bronze medal – third place 1992 Moscow, Russia 100 kg
Silver medal – second place 1995 Chattanooga, USA 100 kg

Angle won his gold medal in the heavyweight (90-100 kg; 198-220 lb) weight class,[10] defeating the Iranian Abbas Jadidi by officials' decision after the competitors wrestled to an eight minute, one-one draw. The bout saw Jadidi earn a point after two minutes and 46 seconds by turning Angle, and Angle earning a point of his own with a takedown after three minutes and 11 seconds. The officials' decision was protested by Jadidi.[16]

Shortly after his victory, Angle turned down a contract with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF).[10] In the same year, he became a marketing representative for Protos Foods, the manufacturers of OSTRIM, an ostrich meat based foodstuff.[13]

Professional wrestling career

Extreme Championship Wrestling

On October 26 1996, Angle was convinced by Shane Douglas to attend the taping of an Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) event named High Incident.[10] He provided guest commentary during a match between Taz and Little Guido, but left the building after Raven "crucified" The Sandman by attaching him to a cross using barbed wire.[17] Angle, shocked by the controversial imagery and afraid that his career prospects would be damaged if he was associated with the incident, threatened to sue ECW owner Paul Heyman if he was shown on television in the same broadcast as the stunt.[10]

Following the incident, Angle began working as a sportscaster on Pittsburgh television.

World Wrestling Federation / Entertainment

In October 1998, Kurt Angle signed a five-year contract with the World Wrestling Federation. He was assigned to the Power Pro Wrestling developmental territory in Memphis, Tennessee, where he began training.

1999-2000

Angle's first appearance on WWF television was on the March 7 1999 episode of Sunday Night Heat, where he took part in an angle with Tiger Ali Singh.[18] Angle's first official WWF match was a dark match victory over Brian Christopher on April 11 1999. In the following months, he wrestled in house shows and other dark matches in preparation for his televised debut.[18]

After several weeks of vignettes, Angle made his in-ring debut on November 14 1999 at the Survivor Series, defeating Shawn Stasiak.[19] He remained undefeated for several weeks, eventually losing to Tazz at the Royal Rumble.[20] Angle won both the WWF European Championship and WWF Intercontinental Championship in February 2000,[20] billing himself as the "Eurocontinental Champion". He lost both of his titles without ever conceding a fall in a two falls triple threat match with Chris Benoit and Chris Jericho at WrestleMania 2000; the match had been agreed to on Angle's behalf by his mentor, Bob Backlund.[20]

Throughout mid-2000, Angle and Edge and Christian ("Team ECK") feuded with Too Cool and Rikishi, with Angle defeating Rikishi in the finals of the King of the Ring tournament.[21] He went to feud with Triple H after a love triangle between Angle, Triple H, and Triple H's wife Stephanie developed, losing to Triple H at Unforgiven 2000.[21] Following his feud with Triple H, Angle began pursuing the WWF Championship, defeating The Rock at No Mercy.[21] Angle retained the WWF Championship for the rest of the year in matches with The Undertaker at Survivor Series and in a six way Hell in a Cell match at Armageddon.[22][22]

2001-2002

He retained the WWF Championship in a match with Triple H at the 2001 Royal Rumble, but lost to The Rock at No Way Out. Angle then feuded with Chris Benoit, whom he defeated at WrestleMania X-Seven and lost to at Backlash in an Ultimate Submission Match, in which Benoit won four falls to three in sudden-death overtime. Continuing the feud, Kurt Angle defeated Chris Benoit in a Two out of three falls match at Judgment Day; Benoit pinned Angle after an Angle Slam in a "Pinfalls Only" fall, and then Angle made Benoit submit with the Ankle Lock in the "Submissions Only" fall. Angle won the third fall, a ladder match, with the help of Edge and Christian.

When WCW and ECW formed The Alliance and invaded the WWF in mid-2001, Angle joined forces with WWF Champion Steve Austin to repel them. At Invasion, Angle and Austin captained a team of five WWF superstars against five handpicked members of the Alliance. Team WWF lost to Team Alliance when Austin turned on his team to join the Alliance. At the close of the match, Austin nailed Angle with a Stone Cold Stunner, causing him to get pinned by the other team.[23] After winning and losing the WCW World Heavyweight Championship,[24][25] WCW United States Heavyweight Championship,[26][27] and WWF Hardcore Championship in matches with Alliance members,[28] Angle defeated Austin for his second WWF Championship at Unforgiven,[29] but he lost the title to Austin on the October 8 2001 episode of RAW when WWF Commissioner William Regal joined the Alliance after costing Angle the match.[30] Angle subsequently joined the Alliance himself,[31] but ultimately returned to the WWF by enabling The Rock to defeat Austin in a "winner takes all" bout between the WWF and The Alliance at Survivor Series.[29] He went on to take part in a four man tournament for the WWF Undisputed Championship at Vengeance, but was eliminated by Austin.[32]

Angle then began a lengthy feud with Edge. During this feud, Edge started the "you suck" chants every time Kurt Angle entered a WWE ring, usually in tune with Angle's entrance music. In the course of the feud, Angle lost a "hair versus hair" match to Edge at Judgment Day and was subsequently shaved bald.[33] Following the loss of his hair, Angle began wearing a wig and insulted bald people,[34] leading to a feud with Hulk Hogan, who stripped Angle of his wig.[35] Angle went on to score a submission victory over Hogan at King of the Ring;[36] this was Hogan's first submission loss in the WWF (which was renamed "World Wrestling Entertainment" in May 2002).

In October 2002, Angle became the fourth WWE Grand Slam Champion by winning the WWE Tag Team Championship with Chris Benoit.[37] After losing the titles to Edge and Rey Mysterio on an edition of SmackDown!,[38] Angle won his third WWE Championship at Armageddon 2002, defeating The Big Show, with the help of Brock Lesnar.[39] In the course of his third reign, Angle gained the services of manager Paul Heyman and "Team Angle" (Charlie Haas and Shelton Benjamin).[40]

2003-2004

Angle during a house show

He defeated Benoit to retain the WWE Championship at the 2003 Royal Rumble and spent the next two months feuding with Brock Lesnar, who had won the Royal Rumble match.[41] The match between Lesnar and Angle going into WrestleMania XIX marked the first time in WWE history that two accomplished amateur wrestlers met in a ring. Angle lost the WWE Championship in the main event of WrestleMania XIX to Lesnar.[42]

On April 11 2003, Angle underwent neck surgery under Dr. Hai-Dong Jho to repair nerve and spinal damage, calcium buildup, bone spurs, and intervertebral disc problems. Rather than have Jho remove the afflicted discs and fuse his vertebrae together, Angle opted for a less conventional surgery where Jho removed only the spurs and selected portions of the discs. The alternative surgery reduced Angle's rehabilitation time from one year to three months.[43][44]

Shortly after returning, Angle defeated Brock Lesnar and Big Show in a triple threat match at Vengeance 2003 to regain the WWE Championship.[45] He retained the title in a singles bout with Lesnar at SummerSlam 2003 before losing it to Lesnar in an Iron Man match on an episode of SmackDown!.[46][47] Angle formed Team Angle, as part of his Survivor Series 2003 team against Lesnar's team, Team Lesnar, with Angle's team coming out victorious.[48] Angle later took part in the Royal Rumble, but was eliminated by Big Show.[48] After defeating Big Show and John Cena in a number one contendership match at No Way Out,[49] Angle unsuccessfully challenged WWE Champion Eddie Guerrero at WrestleMania XX.[49]

Following WrestleMania XX, Angle began once again suffering from neck problems.[50] As a response, he was made the General Manager of SmackDown!,[51] with his absence from the ring attributed to injuries suffered after Big Show chokeslammed him off a ledge.[52] Angle continued to feud with Guerrero throughout 2004, costing him the WWE Championship, with John "Bradshaw" Layfield winning the title at The Great American Bash.[53] Angle was kayfabe fired by Vince McMahon as General Manager in July 2004.[54] Angle continued his feud with Guerrero defeating him at SummerSlam,[55] before losing to Guerrero in a Survivor Series bout at Survivor Series.[56]

In November 2004, Angle initiated the Kurt Angle Invitational, a weekly segment where "hometown heroes" challenged Angle to a match, with Angle promising to give his Olympic gold medal to the first person to last more than three minutes in the ring with him.[57] The Invitational was won by Eugene in July 2005.[58] As a result, Angle faced Eugene at SummerSlam 2005, defeating him by making him tap out to the ankle lock.

2005-2006

Kurt Angle in the ring during SummerSlam 2005

Angle took part in the 2005 Royal Rumble, but was eliminated by Shawn Michaels, who he returned to the ring to eliminate in retaliation.[59] After mocking Michaels by defeating his former tag team partner, Marty Jannetty,[60] and attacking former manager, Sherri Martel,[61] Angle defeated Michaels in an interpromotional match that won PWI Match Of The Year at WrestleMania 21.[59] He continued to feud with Michaels upon being drafted from SmackDown! to RAW in June 2005,[62] losing to Michaels at Vengeance.[63]

In August 2005, Angle began feuding with WWE Champion John Cena.[64] He defeated Cena by disqualification at Unforgiven and lost to Cena in a rematch at the Survivor Series.[63][65]

Angle returned to the SmackDown! brand in January 2006, winning the vacant World Heavyweight Championship in a twenty man battle royal.[66][67] Angle retained the title in bouts with Mark Henry at the Royal Rumble and The Undertaker at No Way Out,[65] before losing to Rey Mysterio in a Triple Threat Match that also included Randy Orton at WrestleMania 22.[68]

On May 29 2006, Angle was drafted to the newly created Extreme Championship Wrestling brand.[69] He issued an open challenge for One Night Stand, which was accepted by Orton.[70] Angle defeated Orton at One Night Stand,[71] later losing to him in a rematch at Vengeance.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling

File:Kurt and karen tna.jpg
Kurt and Karen Angle at TNA Impact taping in Orlando Florida. Photo by Rob Beukema


A few weeks after his WWE tenure had ended, Angle signed a contract with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). On September 24 2006 during the closing segment of the pay-per-view No Surrender, TNA President Dixie Carter announced that TNA Wrestling had signed Angle to a contract, with Jim Cornette introducing video footage of Angle training in a six-sided TNA ring.[72]

Angle made his debut on the October 19, confronting Samoa Joe after Joe refused to relinquish the NWA World Heavyweight Championship belt that he had stolen from Jeff Jarrett. The two men ended up fighting while Jarrett took the title back.[73] Angle was then the special enforcer for the Title vs. Career match between Jarrett and Sting at Bound for Glory, but took out referee Rudy Charles and assumed the referee's role for the rest of the match-up.[74] Angle's first match in TNA took place on the November 16 airing of TNA iMPACT!, where he defeated Abyss with the Ankle lock and was attacked after the match by Samoa Joe.[75] At Genesis, Angle defeated Samoa Joe by the Ankle lock submission, ending Joe's "undefeated" streak.[74] At Turning Point, Joe defeated Angle by Coquina Clutch submission.[74]

At Final Resolution 2007, Angle defeated Samoa Joe in a 30 minute Iron Man match 3-2 to earn a shot at the NWA World Heavyweight Championship at Against All Odds,[76] but lost the match against Christian Cage after interference from Tomko and Scott Steiner.[77] This led into a feud between Angle and Steiner, with Angle pinning Steiner at Destination X.[78] After Angle defeated Steiner, he was picked to lead a team of four other wrestlers against a team of Christian Cage's choice in a Lethal Lockdown match at TNA's April PPV event, Lockdown. Angle ended up choosing Samoa Joe, Rhino, Sting, and Jeff Jarrett for Team Angle, while Cage ended up choosing A.J. Styles, Scott Steiner, Tomko, and Abyss. The man who gained the winning pinfall would become the number one contender to Christian Cage's NWA World Heavyweight Title. Team Angle was victorious after Jeff Jarrett hit Abyss with a guitar full of thumbtacks and allowed Sting to score the pin.[79] At Sacrifice, Angle defeated Cage and Sting in a Triple Threat match to win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.[80] The National Wrestling Alliance has not recognized this reign however, because they had stripped Christian Cage of the NWA Title earlier in the day, prior to the Sacrifice event, although TNA still recognizes Angle as a former NWA champion.

On the following episode of iMPACT!, after hearing complaints from Cage and Sting about the controversial finish to the match, Jim Cornette stripped Angle of the title,[81] and one month later at Slammiversary in a King of the Mountain match, Kurt Angle became the first crowned TNA World Heavyweight Champion by defeating Christian Cage, Samoa Joe, AJ Styles, and Chris Harris.[82] He then attacked Joe after denying a request for a handshake, reigniting their feud.

At Victory Road, newly-crowned X Division Champion Samoa Joe teamed with Kurt Angle to face TNA Tag Team Champions Team 3D, with the stipulation that if a wrestler pinned the other opponent, he won his championship. Joe pinned Brother Ray of Team 3D to win both tag team belts (he ended up holding the championship by himself). On the following episode of iMPACT!, Joe (now holding the X Division and Tag Team Championships, with Kurt holding the TNA and IWGP championships) challenged Kurt to a match at Hard Justice for all the championships. Kurt won the match, winning all the championships and becoming the second Triple Crown champion in TNA, and the first to hold all three titles at the same time.

Japan

On February 18 2007 Angle made his debut in New Japan Pro Wrestling, teaming with former IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Yuji Nagata to face fellow TNA wrestler Travis Tomko and fellow WWE alumnus Giant Bernard. Angle and Nagata won after Nagata made Tomko submit.

On June 29 2007, Angle faced Brock Lesnar in a champion versus champion match for the Inoki Genome Federation, defeating him by submission for the disputed IWGP Third Belt Championship (which IGF and TNA recognize as the IWGP World Title, and NWA recognizes as the NWA Japan Championship)[4] and challenged him to an MMA fight.[83]

Personal life

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Kurt and Karen Angle with Kyra Angle watching at ringside

Kurt Angle attended Clarion University of Pennsylvania, graduating with a degree in education in 1993.[3] He has a Clarion University Golden Eagle tattooed on his upper back.

Angle has four older brothers (one of whom, Eric, is also a wrestler). He also had a sister who died due to congenital heart complications. His father was killed in a construction accident when Angle was sixteen, and Angle dedicated both his career and his autobiography It's True, It's True to him as a result. Angle claimed in an interview that, following the death of his father, he regarded his wrestling coach, David Schultz, as a paternal figure. While training Angle, Schultz was murdered in January 1996 by John Eleuthère du Pont, the sponsor of Schultz's team of Olympic prospectives.[13]

Angle has said on several occasions that he intends to pursue an acting career after retirement from professional wrestling.[16]

Angle married wife Karen on December 19 1998, and the couple have a daughter, Kyra, who was born on December 2 2002. They also have a son, Kody, who was born on October 26 2006.

Steroid allegations

On March 6 2007, Sports Illustrated reported that Angle's name was found in the client database of a Florida wellness center suspected of being a front for distributing performance-enhancing drugs.[84] The magazine alleged Angle had received prescriptions for trenbolone and nandrolone, both anabolic steroids. Angle responded on his official website: "I did not improperly receive prescriptions. It is well documented that in my career I have broken vertebrae in my neck on five occasions and each time the course of treatment was under the care and supervision of my Doctors. Any attempt to link me to the athletes in the current news accounts who may have improperly sought performance-enhancing drugs is without foundation."[85]

On March 19 2007, Sports Illustrated posted on its website another article in its continuing series investigating a steroid and HGH ring used by a number of professional athletes in several sports. That article mentioned that 10 other professional wrestlers were implicated to have received performance-enhancing drugs from the same drug ring including four current WWE wrestlers and Eddie Guerrero.[86]

However, Kurt Angle never failed a test for pain pills. He failed a steroid test (Deca-Durabolin) only because his prescription had expired, while working for the WWE under WWE's wellness policy.[87]

In wrestling

  • Nicknames
    • The Olympic Hero (WWE)
    • The Wrestling Machine (WWE)
    • The Olympic Gold Medalist (WWE/TNA)

Championships and accomplishments

Notes

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