Kurt Angle

Kurt Angle
Angle in 2005
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
Relatives	Eric Angle (brother) Jon Bernthal (nephew in-law)
Website	kurtanglebrand.com
Professional wrestling career
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]
Sports career
Medal record Freestyle wrestling Representing the  United States Olympic Games 1996 Atlanta 100 kg World Championships 1995 Atlanta 100 kg Collegiate Wrestling Representing the Clarion Golden Eagles NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships 1990 Maryland 275 lb 1992 Oklahoma City 275 lb 1991 Iowa City 275 lb

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).

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.

1. ↑ "Kurt Angle Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com". sports-reference.com. April 17, 2020. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved December 8, 2020.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} "Kurt Angle". WWE. Retrieved November 8, 2016.
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