KURT ANGLE

Angle  in  August  2005.
Birth  name Kurt  Steven  Angle
Born December  9,  1968  (age  46)
Mt.  Lebanon,  Pennsylvania,  US
Resides Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  US
Spouse(s) Karen  Smedley  (m.  1998;  div.  2008)
Giovanna  Angle  (m.  2012)
Children Kyra  Angle
(born  December  2,  2002)
Kody  Angle
(October  26,  2006)
Giuliana  Marie  Angle
(born  January  22,  2011)
Sophia  Laine  Angle
(born  December  31,  2012)
Alma  mater Clarion  University  of  Pennsylvania

Professional  wrestling  career
Ring  name(s) Kurt  Angle
Billed  height 6  ft  0  in  (1.83  m)
Billed  weight 240  lb  (110  kg)
Billed  from Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania
Trained  by Dave  Schultz
Dory  Funk,  Jr.
Tom  Prichard
Debut 1998

Kurt  Steven  Angle : (born  December  9,  1968)  is  an  American  professional  wrestler,  amateur  wrestler  and  actor  currently  signed  with  Total  Nonstop  Action  Wrestling  (TNA),  where  he  is  the  current  TNA  World  Heavyweight  Champion  in  his  record  sixth  reign.  He  has  also  wrestled  for  the  World  Wrestling  Federation/Entertainment  (WWF,  now  WWE).  Angle  was  involved  in  amateur  wrestling  during  both  high  school  and  college.  In  college  at  Clarion  University  of  Pennsylvania,  he  won  numerous  accolades,  including  being  a  two-time  National  Collegiate  Athletic  Association  Division  I  champion.  After  graduating,  he  won  a  gold  medal  in  freestyle  wrestling  at  the  1995  World  Wrestling  Championships.  Angle  then  competed  in  the  1996  Summer  Olympics  in  Atlanta,  Georgia,  where  he  won  a  gold  medal  in  heavyweight  freestyle  wrestling.  He  is  one  of  only  four  people  to  complete  a  Grand  Slam  in  amateur  wrestling  (junior  nationals,  NCAAs,  World  Championships  and  the  Olympics).  In  2006,  he  was  named  the  single  greatest  shoot  wrestler  and  one  of  the  top  15  college  wrestlers  of  all  time  by  USA  Wrestling.

Angle  made  his  first  appearance  at  a  professional  wrestling  event  in  1996,  with  his  in-ring  debut  following  in  1998.  He  had  previously  turned  down  an  offer  to  join  the  WWF,  but  signed  a  multi-year  contract  with  the  company  that  year,  and  participated  in  his  first  televised  storyline  in  March  1999.  After  months  of  unaired  matches,  Angle  made  his  official  debut  that  November  and  received  his  first  major  push  in  the  company  in  February  2000,  when  he  held  the  European  Championship  and  the  Intercontinental  Championship  simultaneously.

 Four  months  later  he  won  the  King  of  the  Ring  tournament,  and  not  long  after,  began  pursuing  the  WWF  Championship,  which  he  won  in  October;  this  capped  off  a  rookie  year  which  is  considered  by  many  as  the  greatest  in  professional  wrestling  history.  Throughout  his  tenure  in  the  company,  Angle  was  a  six-time  world  champion  (a  four-time  WWF/E  Champion,  a  one-time  World  Heavyweight  Champion,  and  a  one-time  WCW  Champion),  and  he  also  held  the  WCW  United  States  Championship,  Intercontinental  Championship,  European  Championship,  Hardcore  Championship,  and  WWE  Tag  Team  Championship  once  each.  He  is  the  tenth  Triple  Crown  Champion,  and  the  fifth  Grand  Slam  Champion.

After  leaving  WWE,  Angle  joined  TNA,  where  he  became  a  record  six-time  TNA  World  Heavyweight  Champion,  a  two-time  TNA  World  Tag  Team  Champion,  and  a  one-time  TNA  X  Division  Champion,  also  the  second  Triple  Crown  winner  in  TNA  history  and  the  only  one  to  hold  all  the  required  titles  at  once.  While  in  TNA,  his  then  real-life  wife  Karen  began  accompanying  him  to  the  ring  and  playing  a  part  in  his  on-screen  storylines.  As  part  of  TNA,  Angle  has  also  made  appearances  for  New  Japan  Pro  Wrestling  (NJPW)  as  well  as  Inoki  Genome  Federation  (IGF),  where  he  held  their  version  of  the  IWGP  Heavyweight  Championship.

Angle  is  the  only  wrestler  in  history  to  be  a  Triple  Crown  winner  in  both  WWE  and  TNA.  He  is  the  first  man  to  have  held  the  WWE,  WCW,  TNA,  IWGP,  and  World  Heavyweight  Championships  in  his  career.  Angle  is  also  a  two-time  King  of  the  Mountain  winner,  winning  at  the  2007  and  2009  Slammiversary  pay-per-view  event,  making  him  the  only  wrestler  to  have  been  both  King  of  the  Ring  (WWE)  and  King  of  the  Mountain  (TNA).  Between  WWE,  TNA,  and  Japan,  Angle  has  won  13  world  championships  and  21  total  championships.  In  2010,  the  Wrestling  Observer  Newsletter  named  Angle  the  Wrestler  of  the  Decade  of  the  2000s,  and  in  2013  he  became  the  second  inductee  into  the  TNA  Hall  of  Fame.

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