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Kurt Angle
American professional wrestler and 1996 Olympic gold medalist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kurt Steven Angle (born December 9, 1968) is an American retired professional wrestler, Olympic gold medalist and former collegiate wrestler. He is best known for his time in the World Wrestling Federation/WWE and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).
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Birth name | Kurt Steven Angle[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1968-12-09) December 9, 1968 (age 55) Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | Clarion University of Pennsylvania | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Spouse(s) | Karen Jarrett
(m. 1998; div. 2008)Giovanna Yannotti (m. 2012) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Children | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Website | kurtanglebrand![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ring name(s) | The Conquistador Kurt Angle[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Billed height | 6 ft 0 in (183 cm)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Billed weight | 237 lb (108 kg)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Billed from | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Trained by | Dory Funk Jr.[3] Tom Prichard[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Debut | August 20, 1998[4] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | April 7, 2019[5] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Angle won a gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics, winning with a broken neck. He is the first Olympic gold medalist in professional wrestling history. He wrestled for the WWF/E from 1998 to 2006. During this time he became a six-time world champion (along with many other championships) and won the King of the Ring tournament in 2000.
In 2006 he signed a contract to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling where he was the first TNA World Champion, a title he would also hold six times. Angle is also a two-time winner of the King of the Mountain ladder match. He competed for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and the Inoki Genome Federation (IGF) because of their partnership with TNA. There he won the IWGP Heavyweight Championship. His TNA contract expired in September 2014.
Angle returned to WWE on April 3, 2017, as the general manager of Raw and wrestled on occasions. He retired on April 7, 2019 after WrestleMania 35. He is in many of wrestling Hall of Fames, most notably the WWE, TNA, and the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fames. He is the only wrestler to have won the WWE, WWE's World Heavyweight, the WCW Championship, TNA World Heavyweight and the IWGP Heavyweight Championships, in addition to an NCAA wrestling championship.