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Kurt Angle

Kurt Angle

Birthday: 1968-12-09 | Place of Birth: Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, USA

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2018
WWE WrestleMania 34

as    Kurt Angle

2017
2014
Pro Wrestlers vs Zombies

as    Kurt Angle

2014
Not Cool

as    Security Guard

2013
2012
The Lighthouse

as    Daniel

2011
TNA Lockdown 2011

as    Himself

2011
River of Darkness

as    Sheriff Will Logan

2011
Dylan Dog: Dead of Night

as    Wolfgang

2009
End Game

as    Brad Mayfield

2006
WWE New Year's Revolution 2006

as    Kurt Angle

2006
WWE Royal Rumble 2006

as    Kurt Angle

2006
WWE WrestleMania 22

as    Kurt Angle

2006
WWE No Way Out 2006

as    Kurt Angle

2006
WWE Judgment Day 2006

as    Kurt Angle

2005
WWE Royal Rumble 2005

as    Kurt Angle

2005
WWE No Way Out 2005

as    Kurt Angle

2005
WWE Vengeance 2005

as    Kurt Angle

2005
WWE Judgment Day 2005

as    Kurt Angle

2005
WWE Survivor Series 2005

as    Kurt Angle