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Kurt
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Height: 6'
Weight: 240 pounds
From: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Finishing Move: The Angle Slam
Kurt Angle is regarded as one of the greatest
professional wrestlers in the world. He is a two-time NCAA national champion wrestler,
three-time NCAA All-American and he won an Olympic gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta
Games. A multi-time TNA World Heavyweight Champion, Kurt Angle has been dominant
in every organization he has been a part of and Angle turned the world of professional
wrestling upside down by signing with TNA in 2006. TNA Wrestling fans voted this
as the greatest acquisition in TNA history.
Angle has continued to build
upon his unmatched reputation for giving everything he has in the ring during
his time in TNA, most notably feuding with “The Samoan Submission Machine”
Samoa Joe, “The Phenomenal” AJ Styles and TNA Founder Jeff Jarrett.
With his time in TNA, Kurt Angle has become the second Triple Crown champion in
TNA, winning the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, the TNA Tag Team Championship
and the TNA X Division Championship.
Recently, Kurt Angle stepped in as the
official spokesperson to spearhead TNA’s Save Olympic Wrestling campaign
petitioning to reinstate wrestling as an Olympic sport for the 2020 Olympic Games.
On Feb. 12, 2013, the International Executive Board of the International Olympic
Committee (IOC) announced “25 Core Sports” for the 2020 Olympic Games,
dropping one of the original Olympic sports: wrestling. Angle geared up against
this decision and organized a battalion of like minds to save this Olympic sport.
- 1996 Summer Olympic Gold Medalist – Atlanta, GA
- Multi-time
World Heavyweight Champion
- Wrestled in college
- One of only four
people in the world to complete the Grand Slam in amateur wrestling (Junior Nationals,
NCAAs, World Championships and the Olympics)
- Filmography: Singlet - The
Dana Kelly Story (2014), Pain & Gain (2013), Beyond the Mat (2013), The Lighthouse
(2012), Death from Above (2012), Warrior (2011), River of Darkness (2011), Dylan
Dog: Dead of Night (2010) and End Game (2009) WWE
Bio Kurt
Angle’s intensity was unmatched; his technical wrestling skills unparalleled.
Possessing an unprecedented competitive streak that fueled him to become a 1996
Olympic gold medalist, Angle dominated the amateur ranks before emerging as one
of the most successful WWE Superstars of all time. Simply
put, Kurt Angle was a Wrestling Machine. Starting
his athletic career as a football and wrestling star in his hometown of Pittsburgh,
he soon became one of the top amateur wrestlers in the entire country, winning
a pair of NCAA titles at Clarion University. But Angle truly captured national
attention in 1996 when he won the 220-pound freestyle wrestling competition at
the Olympic Games in Atlanta with a broken neck. His
raw athleticism earned him an opportunity to try out with the NFL’s Pittsburgh
Steelers, but wrestling was The Olympic Hero’s true passion. Four
years after earning Olympic gold, Angle entered WWE and immediately became one
of the most competitive individuals to set foot in the squared circle. Just weeks
after his debut, Angle, who preached the virtues of his three I’s (Intensity,
Integrity and Intelligence), won the European Championship. Shortly
thereafter, he captured the Intercontinental Championship and was crowned as King
of the Ring in 2000. With momentum propelling the red, white and blue–clad
grappler to new heights, he defeated The Rock at No Mercy to win his first WWE
Championship. A
true testament to Angle’s passion and fortitude came in 2003. A mere week
after being defeated by Brock Lesnar for the WWE Title at WrestleMania XIX, The
Olympic Hero underwent a career-threatening neck surgery. Amazingly, Angle returned
a short time later and in July 2003 at Vengeance — just 14 weeks after the
operation — he made Lesnar tap out, reclaiming the WWE Title. During
his tenure in WWE, The Wrestling Machine tussled with the greatest Superstars
of The Attitude Era, including “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, The Rock,
The Undertaker, Triple H and Big Show and even battled John Cena in the Cenation
leader’s debut. But it’s the Olympic gold medalist’s WrestleMania
21 bout against Shawn Michaels that stands as not only Angle’s best match,
but also maybe the best WWE match ever. Angle
left WWE in 2006, but his seven years in WWE certainly raised the level of competitiveness
for the entire WWE roster and left the WWE Universe with memories of some of the
greatest bouts of all time. Oh it’s true, it’s true. 
Kurt
Angle and Ric Flair In
1996, Kurt Angle was the first American Olympic Gold Medallist ever to win the
220-pound weight class. Angle has more than 23 years of wrestling experience with
over 200 crushing pins under his belt. He has also won the "Worlds"
Championship in 1995 and 1994 "US OPEN". Angle
now works with World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc., where his new role is "The
Most Celebrated First Real Athlete in WWE History". In
addition to being a WWE Superstar, Angle is a spokesperson and marketing consultant
for Protos Foods Inc., GNC and a few other sport nutrition companies. Due
to his strong public appeal, Angle has been a featured guest on the Tonight Show
with Jay Leno, The Conan O’Brien Show and on MTV. Angle
graduated from Clarion University in 1992 where he received his B. S. in Geography. Kurt
still resides in Pittsburgh, PA. Profiles Wrestling WWE Olympic
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