Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

December 8, 1968 (56 years old)

Place of Birth

Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, USA

Kurt Angle

Biography

Kurt Steven Angle is an American retired professional wrestler, Olympic gold medalist in American freestyle wrestling, and former collegiate wrestler. He is best known for his tenures in WWE and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). While at Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Angle won numerous accolades, including being a two-time NCAA Division I Wrestling Champion in the heavyweight division. After graduating from college, Angle won the gold medal in freestyle wrestling at the 1995 World Wrestling Championships. He then won the freestyle wrestling gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics with a broken neck. He is one of four people to complete an amateur wrestling Grand Slam (Junior Nationals, NCAA, World Championships, and Olympics). In 2006, he was named by USA Wrestling as the greatest shoot wrestler ever and one of the top 15 college wrestlers of all time. He was inducted into the International Sports Hall of Fame in 2016 for his amateur accomplishments. Angle made his first appearance at a pro-wrestling event in 1996, and signed with WWE in 1999. Noted for his rapid comprehension of the business, he had his debut match that August within the company's developmental system after mere days of training, and participated in his first televised WWE storyline in March 1999. After months of dark matches, Angle made his televised in-ring debut in November and received his first major push in the company in February 2000, when he held the European and Intercontinental Championships simultaneously. Four months later, he won the 2000 King of the Ring tournament and soon thereafter began pursuing the WWE Championship, which he won in October. This capped off a WWE rookie year which is considered by many to be the greatest in history. Among other accomplishments in the WWE, Angle has held the WWE Championship four times, the WCW Championship once, and the World Heavyweight Championship once. He is the tenth Triple Crown Champion and the fifth Grand Slam Champion in WWE history. On March 31, 2017, Angle was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame. After leaving WWE in 2006, Angle joined Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) where he became the inaugural and record six-time TNA World Heavyweight Champion, and the second Triple Crown winner in TNA history. Angle is also a two-time King of the Mountain. As part of TNA, he made appearances for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and the Inoki Genome Federation (IGF), holding the IWGP Heavyweight Championship once. In 2013, Angle was inducted into the TNA Hall of Fame: he is the second wrestler, after Sting, to be inducted into both the WWE and TNA Halls of Fame.

Known For

The Rock: The Epic Journey of Dwayne Johnson

WWE: Tombstone - The History of the Undertaker

WWE: 50 Greatest Finishing Moves in WWE History

WWE Tagged Classics: Austin 3:16 Uncensored / Three Faces Of Foley / Chris Jericho: Break Down The Walls / Kurt Angle: Its True

WWE: The Top 25 Rivalries in Wrestling History

WWE: Best of WWE at Madison Square Garden

The Road is Jericho: Epic Stories and Rare Matches from Y2J

WWE: Greatest Superstars of the 21st Century

WWE: The Rock: The Most Electrifying Man in Sports Entertainment

WWE: The Twisted, Disturbed Life of Kane

Straight Outta Dudleyville: The Legacy of the Dudley Boyz

WWE: The U.S. Championship: A Legacy of Greatness

The History of The WWE Hardcore Championship

Brock Lesnar: Eat, Sleep. Conquer. Repeat

TNA Wrestling: Christian Cage - The Instant Classic

WWE: The History Of The WWE Championship

Shawn Michaels - The Showstopper Unreleased

Chasing the Magic: The Nigel McGuinness Story

WWE: The Best of WWE Confidential, Vol. 1

WWE: The Best of SmackDown - 10th Anniversary, 1999-2009

Breaking the Code: Behind the Walls of Chris Jericho

WWE: 150 Best Pay-Per-View Matches, Vol 3

WWE: 150 Best Pay-Per-View Matches, Vol 2

WWE: Cheating Death, Stealing Life: The Eddie Guerrero Story

WWE: The Shawn Michaels Story - Heartbreak & Triumph

WWE: The History Of The Intercontinental Championship

WWE: Hell in a Cell - The Greatest Hell in a Cell Matches of All Time

WWE: The History Of The World Heavyweight Championship

Stone Cold Steve Austin: The Bottom Line on the Most Popular Superstar of All Time

WWE: Rey Mysterio - The Biggest Little Man

WWE: Rey Mysterio - The Life of a Masked Man

WWE: Viva La Raza - The Legacy of Eddie Guerrero

WWE: Satan's Prison - The Anthology of the Elimination Chamber

TNA One Night Only: World Cup of Wrestling 2

TNA One Night Only: Tournament of Champions 2013

WWE The Best of Raw and Smackdown Live 2018

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