Kurt
Angle is a 14-time professional wrestling world champion,
with titles collected in WWE, TNA, and Japan. He is
in both the WWE and TNA/Impact Hall of Fames, a two-time
NCAA Division 1 National Champion, and has also won
a gold medal in freestyle wrestling at the 1996 Summer
Games with, as he likes to say, ‘a broken freaking
neck.’ At every stop in his career, Angle has
reached the top of the mountain, and now he’s
taking his Three I’s; Intensity, Intelligence,
and Integrity, to the podcast world as he joins host
Conrad Thompson to take a look back at some of the
matches, feuds and moments that turned an Olympic
gold medalist into one of the greatest sports entertainers
of all time. It’s True. It’s damn true.
KURT
ANGLE
1996
OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST - PRO WRESTLER - ACTOR/STUNT
COORDINATOR
"My
Dream Was To Win An Olympic Gold Medal."
These
are the words of the award-winning man of impossibilities,
Kurt Angle, after having won the Olympic Gold Medal
in 1996, numerous pro wrestling titles, and induction
into the TNA and WWE Halls of Fame.
Kurt
claims this was his dream from as early as the age
of five, but never did he dream it would turn out
to be so much more than that. While Kurt is known
for amazing achievements all throughout his life as
an amateur and pro wrestler, his path was filled with
personal difficulties, obstacles, and hurdles he had
to overcome every step of the way. All have helped
to shape exactly who he’s known as today: a man
of unstoppable force.
His
story begins in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, where he
was born on December 9th, 1968 the youngest of five
children. From a young age, he was influenced by his
older brothers, who often played and roughhoused with
one another, eventually joining in himself as he grew
older.
