Kurt Angle
American professional wrestler and 1996 Olympic gold medalist
Kurt Steven Angle (born March 9, 1968), is an American professional wrestler currently signed to WWE on the Raw brand, where he is the current on-screen general manager.
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Born | Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania | March 9, 1968
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | Kurt Angle |
Billed height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)[1] |
Billed from | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
Trained by | Dave Schultz Dory Funk, Jr. Tom Prichard[2] |
Debut | 1999[2] |
In 2006 he signed a contract to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling where he is a former TNA World Champion. His TNA contract expired in September 2014.
Angle won a gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics, winning with a broken neck. He is the only Olympic gold medalist in professional wrestling history. He wrestled for the WWE and WWF from 1998 to 2006.
Angle returned to WWE on April 3, 2017, as the general manager of Raw. He still wrestles on occasions.
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Kurt Angle". WWE. Retrieved November 8, 2016.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Kurt Angle profile". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2009-10-28.
Other websitesEdit
Media related to Kurt Angle at Wikimedia Commons