Kurt Angel Bio

Kurt Angel Bio

Name                  :             Kurt Steavan Angel

Ring Name         :             Kurt Angel

Birth Date          :             9 Dec 1968

Birth Place         :            Pennsylvania, USA

Mini Bio

Kurt Steven Angle was conceived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He is a 1996 Olympic Gold Medal champ in the 220lbs weight class. Initially ever wrestler to hold the WCW and WWF World Championships amid the same schedule year, and has held WWF, Intercontinental, European and Hardcore titles all on partitioned events. Likes to listen to the Olympics topic.

 

Full Bio

Kurtis J. Edge (conceived December 9, 1968) is an American expert wrestler, on-screen character, and resigned beginner wrestler. While at Clarion University of Pennsylvania, he won various awards, including being a two-time National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Heavyweight Wrestling Champion. In the wake of graduating school, Angle won a gold decoration in free-form wrestling at the 1995 World Wrestling Championships. He then won a free-form wrestling gold award at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Point is one of just four individuals to finish a novice wrestling Grand Slam (junior nationals, NCAA, World Championships, Olympics). In 2006, he was named by USA Wrestling as the best shoot wrestler ever and one of the main 15 school wrestlers of all time. He was accepted into the International Sports Hall of Fame in 2016 for his beginner achievements.

Point showed up at an expert wrestling occasion in 1996, with his in-ring debut following in 1998. In 1999, he marked a multi-year contract with then World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and took part in his initially broadcast storyline in March. Following quite a while of unaired matches, Angle made his official introduction the next November and got his first real push in the organization in February 2000, when he held the European Championship and the Intercontinental Championship at the same time. After four months, he won the King of the Ring competition, and not long after, started seeking after the WWF Championship, which he won in October; this topped off a youngster year which is considered by numerous to be the best in expert wrestling history. Throughout his residency in the WWF/E, Angle was a six-time best on the planet (four-time WWF/E Champion, one-time World Heavyweight Champion, and one-time WCW Champion), a one-time United States Champion, one-time Intercontinental Champion, one-time European Champion and one-time WWE Tag Team Champion. He is the tenth Triple Crown Champion and the fifth Grand Slam Champion in WWE history.

In the wake of leaving WWE, Angle joined Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where he turned into a record six-time TNA World Heavyweight Champion, a two-time TNA World Tag Team Champion, and a one-time TNA X Division Champion. He is the second Triple Crown victor in TNA history and the one and only to hold all the required titles without a moment's delay. As a piece of TNA, Angle additionally showed up for New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) and the Inoki Genome Federation (IGF), where he held the IWGP Heavyweight Championship once.

Between WWF/E, TNA, and Japan, Angle has won 13 big showdowns and 21 absolute titles. He is the main expert wrestler in history to have won the WWE,World heavyweight, WCW, TNA, and IWGP big showdowns. Point is likewise a two-time King of the Mountain and a one-time King of the Ring, making him the main individual to have been both King of the Ring (WWF) and King of the Mountain (TNA). In 2010, Wrestling Observer Newsletter named Angle the Wrestler of the Decade for the 2000s, and in 2013, he was enlisted into the TNA Hall of Fame. He has featured various pay-per-view occasions for both WWF/E and TNA all through his vocation, including the leader occasion for both advancements: WrestleMania in WWF/E, and Bound for Glory in TNA.

 

Early Career

Point began beginner wrestling at seven. years old He went to Mt. Lebanon High School, where he won varsity letters in football and wrestling and was an All-State linebacker. He went undefeated on the first year recruit wrestling group at Mt. Lebanon High and met all requirements for the state wrestling competition his sophomore year. Angle additionally set third in the state wrestling competition as a lesser and was the 1987 Pennsylvania State Wrestling Champion as a senior.

After moving on from secondary school, Angle went to the Clarion University of Pennsylvania, where he kept on wrestling at a beginner level. He was a two-time National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I champion, national runner-up in 1991, and a three-time NCAA Division I All-American. What's more, Angle was the 1987 USA Junior Freestyle champion, a two-time USA Senior Freestyle champion, and the 1988 USA International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles Junior World Freestyle champion.

In the wake of moving on from school, Angle kept on wrestling. In 1995, he won a gold decoration at the FILA Wrestling World Championships in Atlanta, Georgia. Following this triumph, Angle started planning for the 1996 Summer Olympics under Dave Schultz at the Pennsylvanian Foxcatcher Club, preparing somewhere around eight and ten hours a day. In January 1996, not long after Angle started preparing at the club, Schultz was killed by John Eleuthère du Pont, the patron of Schultz's group of Olympic prospectives. subsequently, Angle quit du Pont's group, hunt down new supporters, and joined the Dave Schultz Wrestling Club in Schultz's memory.

Point confronted further hardships while participating in the 1996 Olympic Trials, when he endured a serious neck damage, cracking two of his cervical vertebrae, herniating two circles, and pulling four muscles. Regardless, Angle won the trials and after that spent the resulting five months resting and restoring. By the Olympics, Angle could contend, though with a few agony diminishing infusions in his neck. In the fall of 1996, Angle expressed that he incidentally got to be dependent on the pain relieving Vicodin subsequent to harming his neck. He won his gold award in the heavyweight (90–100 kg; 198–220 lb) weight class notwithstanding his injury, vanquishing the Iranian Abbas Jadidi by authorities' choice after the contenders wrestled to an eight-minute, one-one draw. The session saw Jadidi procure a point following two minutes and 42 seconds by turning Angle, and Angle winning his very own state with a takedown following three minutes and four seconds. The authorities' choice was dissented by Jadidi. Angle committed the triumph to Schultz's honor.

Not long after his triumph, Angle turned down an agreement with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). around the same time, he turned into a showcasing agent for Protos Foods, the producers of OSTRIM, an ostrich meat based foodstuff.

In April 2011, Angle uncovered that he was arranging a rebound to beginner wrestling for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. In April 2012, he reported he was not able make the trials for the US group because of a knee damage, however he held a privileged title as group manager. A satire of these endeavors entitled "Olympic Trials With Kurt Angle" showed up on the site Funny or Die.

In 2016, Angle was reported as an inductee into the International Sports Hall of Fame for his novice wrestling achievements.

On October 26, 1996, Angle was persuaded by kindred Pittsburgh local Shane Douglas to go to the taping of an Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) occasion named High Incident. He gave an in-ring meeting and gave visitor analysis amid a match amongst Taz and Little Guido, however left the working after Raven "killed" a draining Sandman by appending him to a cross utilizing thorned wire. Angle, stunned by the dubious symbolism and anxious that his profession prospects would be harmed on the off chance that he was connected with the occurrence, debilitated to sue ECW proprietor Paul Heyman in the event that he was appeared on TV in the same communicate as the stunt.

Edge contended in a fight imperial at the NWA's 50th Anniversary Show, hung on October 24, 1998 at the Hilton Hotel in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

In October 1998, Angle marked an eight-year contract with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). He was doled out to the Power Pro Wrestling formative domain in Memphis, Tennessee, where he started preparing. Edge's first appearance on WWF TV was on the March 7, 1999 scene of Sunday Night Heat, where he partook in a point with Tiger Ali Singh. This edge included Singh paying him cash to clean out his nose on the American banner. Edge rather cleaned out his nose on Singh's banner and battled him off. His first WWF match was a dim match triumph over Brian Christopher on April 11, 1999. In the next months, he wrestled in house appears and other dim matches in planning for his broadcast debut.

Following a few weeks of vignettes, Angle made his broadcast in-ring debut on November 14, 1999 at the Survivor Series at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan, crushing Shawn Stasiak. In his underlying push, he stayed undefeated for a few weeks, in the long run losing to the appearing Tazz by going out at the Royal Rumble. Angle's TV character was an "American saint" contrivance taking into account his gold award win at the 1996 Summer Olympics. In his promos, Angle introduced himself as a good example and focused on the need to strive to understand one's fantasies, focusing on the 3 I's, "Force, Integrity, and Intelligence". In his promos and ring passageways, Angle would dependably wear imitations of his gold awards around his neck. While he remained for some rule that are connected with "great person" wrestlers, Angle was perceptibly booed in his presentation coordinate and even the Raw the following night in his match against the Godfather. which occurred in his the place where own grew up of Pittsburgh.

The fans all in all didn't respond emphatically to his charging as the principal 'genuine competitor' in the WWF, which at last prompted him being depicted as a scoundrel, speaking condescendingly to the gathering of people and carrying on as though he thought he was superior to the fans and kindred wrestlers, normally insulting them with the subject of, "Where are your gold decorations?". Point won both the European Championship and the Intercontinental Championship in February 2000, charging himself as the "Eurocontinental Champion". He dropped both of his titles while never yielding a fall in a two falls Triple Threat match with Chris Benoit and Chris Jericho at WrestleMania 2000. The match had been consented to for Angle's sake by his guide, Bob Backlund.

All through mid-2000, subsequent to adjusting himself to Edge and Christian, "Group ECK" (Edge, Christian, and Kurt) quarreled with Too Cool and Rikishi, with Angle crushing Rikishi in the finals of the King of the Ring competition. He went ahead to quarrel with Triple H after an adoration triangle amongst them and Triple H's significant other, Stephanie McMahon, created. As a change to the proposed storyline of Stephanie turning on her better half and running with Angle, he lost to Triple H at Unforgiven. Taking after his quarrel with Triple H, Angle got another push and started seeking after the WWF Championship, vanquishing The Rock at No Mercy, after messed up obstruction for The Rock's sake from Rikishi. With his triumph over The Rock, Angle turned into the principal wrestler to have won both an Olympic Gold award and the big showdown. Point held the WWF Championship for whatever is left of the year in matches with The Undertaker at Survivor Series and in a six-man Hell in a Cell match at Armageddon.

In the wake of beating Triple H at the Royal Rumble, Angle in the long run lost the title to The Rock at No Way Out, in the wake of holding the WWF Championship for four months. He then fought with Chris Benoit whom he vanquished at WrestleMania X-Seven, however lost to him at Backlash in a Ultimate Submission match; Benoit crushed Angle four tumbles to three in sudden-passing extra time. Proceeding with the fight, Angle again vanquished Benoit in a two out of three falls match at Judgment Day. Benoit stuck Angle after an Angle Slam in a "Pinfalls Only" fall, and after that Angle made Benoit submit with the lower leg lock in the "Entries Only" fall. Point won the third fall, a stepping stool match, with the assistance of Edge and Christian.

At the point when World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and ECW were acquired by WWF, the wrestlers from both advancements joined and shaped The Alliance and attacked the WWF in mid-2001 (named as "The Invasion"). Thus, Angle turned into a fan most loved and started a storyline where he united with WWF Champion Stone Cold Steve Austin to repulse them. At Invasion, Angle and Austin captained a group of five WWF hotshots against five handpicked individuals from the Alliance. As a major aspect of the edge, Team WWF lost to Team Alliance when Austin turned on his group to join The Alliance. At the end of the match, Austin nailed Angle with a Stone Cold Stunner, making him get stuck by the other group. In the wake of winning and losing the WCW Championship, WCW United States Championship, and the WWF Hardcore Championship in matches with Alliance individuals, Angle was reserved to thrashing Austin in a SummerSlam rematch for his second WWF Championship at Unforgiven. He dropped the title back to Austin on the October 8, 2001, scene of Raw when WWF Commissioner William Regal joined The Alliance and cost Angle the match. As a feature of the storyline, Angle along these lines transformed into a reprobate again and joined The Alliance himself; amid a WrestleMania X-Seven rematch between Vince McMahon and Shane McMahon, he meddled apparently to help Vince, yet rather struck the individuals from group WWF with a steel seat. Edge, be that as it may, eventually came back to the WWF side by empowering The Rock to annihilation Austin in a "Victor Takes All" match between the WWF and The Alliance at Survivor Series. He remained a reprobate by guaranteeing sole obligation regarding the annihilation of The Alliance.

Subsequent to dropping the WCW United States Championship to Edge, the couple were set up for a protracted fight. Amid this quarrel, Edge helped the fans with the as of now began "you suck" serenades each time Angle entered a WWE ring, more often than not tuned in to Angle's passage music. The serenades took after Angle all through whatever is left of his WWE vocation. Over the span of the quarrel, the normally thinning up top Angle lost a "hair versus hair" match to Edge at Judgment Day, and his head was shaved bare. Point has held the shaved head since. Taking after the loss of his hair, Angle's storyline called for him to wear a wig and affront uncovered individuals, prompting a fight with Hollywood Hogan, who stripped Angle of his wig. Edge later scored an accommodation triumph over Hogan at King of the Ring, making him the primary wrestler in WWE history to win an accommodation from Hogan. Amid 2002, Angle routinely held open welcome difficulties on Smackdown!. Tolerating one of these difficulties, John Cena made his WWE broadcast debut, losing to Angle after a move up pin.

In October 2002, Angle turned into the fifth WWE Grand Slam Championship victor when he won the WWE Tag Team Championship with Chris Benoit at No Mercy. Their group was fruitful however dangerous, as the two squabbled always, with Benoit regularly tired of Angle's over-the-top tricks. Subsequent to dropping the title to Edge and Rey Mysterio on a scene of SmackDown!, Angle won his third WWE Championship at Armageddon, overcoming Big Show with the assistance of Brock Lesnar. While still in his third rule, Angle started another storyline when he picked up the administrations of chief Paul Heyman and "Group Angle".

He then started fighting with Brock Lesnar, who had won the 2003 Royal Rumble match, after he guaranteed to be the new top hotshot on SmackDown!. Point lost the WWE Championship in the headliner of WrestleMania XIX to Lesnar, because of requiring time off to recover from wounds.

On April 11, 2003, Angle experienced neck surgery performed by Dr. Hae-Dong Jho to repair nerve and spinal harm, calcium development, bone goads, and intervertebral circle issues. Instead of have Dr. Jho expel the harassed plates and circuit his vertebrae together, Angle settled on a less customary surgery where Jho evacuated just the goads and chose bits of the circles. The option surgery decreased Angle's restoration time from one year to three months. He returned as a face character in June. Not long after returning, Angle vanquished Lesnar and Big Show in a Triple Threat match at Vengeance to recapture the WWE Championship. Amid this time, Lesnar appeared to end up a partner to Angle. Lesnar, in any case, subtly worked with Vince McMahon on a plot against Angle, turning on him amid a steel confine match amongst himself and McMahon in which Angle was the unique visitor arbitrator, and expressed that he never endured losing the belt to him at Vengeance. Subsequent to holding the title in a singles session at SummerSlam by making Lesnar submit to the lower leg lock, he dropped the title to Lesnar in an Iron Man match on a scene of SmackDown!. Point then shaped a five-man group to opponent Lesnar's group at the Survivor Series, with Angle's group turning out triumphant.

Edge then got included in a fight with Eddie Guerrero. At first being a firm companion and partner to Eddie amid the last's fight with his nephew Chavo, Angle turned on him when it was reported that Guerrero, not Angle, was the main contender for the WWE Championship, along these lines turning into a scalawag at the end of the day. At No Way Out, Guerrero vanquished Lesnar to win the WWE Championship, and Angle won a match to wind up the new number one contender. In the wake of losing to Guerrero at WrestleMania XX, Angle started to at the end of the day experience the ill effects of authentic neck issues. As a reaction, he was made the on-screen General Manager of SmackDown!, with his nonattendance from the ring credited to wounds endured after Big Show chokeslammed him off an edge. Point proceeded with his fight with Guerrero all through 2004. He cost Guerrero the WWE Championship against John "Bradshaw" Layfield in a Texas Bull Rope match at The Great American Bash by taking an interest in the worked complete; Angle came down to the ring and demonstrated a replay where JBL's shoulder hit the corner cushion before Guerrero's hand. Point was later terminated by Vince McMahon as General Manager in July 2004, subsequent to finding that he was faking his impeded status.

In November 2004, Angle started the Kurt Angle Invitational, a worked week after week fragment where "main residence legends" (plants), tested him to a match, with Angle promising to give his Olympic gold award to the primary individual to last over three minutes in the ring with him. The Invitational was won by Eugene in July 2005 beginning another plot for both men. Thus, Angle confronted Eugene at SummerSlam, crushing him by making him submit to the lower leg lock.

On the November 4, 2004, scene of SmackDown!, taped in St. Louis, Missouri, amid an unscripted section of Tough Enough, Angle tested the finalists to a squat push rivalry. Chris Nawrocki won the opposition, and the prize Nawrocki won was a match against Angle. Point rapidly brought Nawrocki down, breaking his ribs, then made him submit with a neck wrench. After Angle vanquished Nawrocki, Angle tested alternate finalists. Daniel Puder, an American expert blended military craftsman, acknowledged Angle's test. Edge and Puder wrestled for position, with Angle bringing Puder down, be that as it may, all the while, Puder secured Angle a kimura lock. With Puder on his back and Angle's arm secured in the kimura, Angle pushed Puder's shoulders down, sticking him and one of two officials in the ring, Jim Korderas, immediately numbered three to end the session, in spite of the way that Puder's shoulders were not completely down on the mat, crossing over up at two. Puder later guaranteed he would have snapped Angle's arm on national TV if Korderas had not finished the match.

In January 2005, Angle partook in the Royal Rumble, however was wiped out by Shawn Michaels, who had come back to the ring to kill in retaliation. After deriding Michaels by vanquishing his previous label group accomplice, Marty Jannetty, and assaulting previous administrator, Sherri Martel, Angle crushed Michaels in an interpromotional match at WrestleMania 21, which won the Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) Match of the Year award. He kept on fighting with Michaels after being drafted from SmackDown! to Raw in the 2005 WWE draft lottery, losing to Michaels at Vengeance. On the July 25, 2005 scene of Raw, Eugene partook in the "Kurt Angle Invitational" test. Edge was not able make Eugene submit in the three-minute breaking point, winning his treasured Olympic gold decoration (per match stipulation), and beginning a fight between the two. The quarrel finished at SummerSlam, where Angle crushed Eugene to recover his medal. Angle later fought with John Cena for the WWE Championship. He would challenge Cena at Unforgiven, however won by DQ, in this manner not winning the title. He would confront Shawn Michaels and Cena in a Triple Threat match at Taboo Tuesday yet did not win, and would then unsuccessfully challenge Cena at Survivor Series.

Toward the beginning of January 2006, Angle came back to the SmackDown! brand as an amazement participant in a twenty-man fight illustrious for the empty World Heavyweight Championship. Point won by last disposing of Mark Henry, turning face in the process surprisingly since 2004. He held the title against Henry at the Royal Rumble. Shortly after the match, The Undertaker made his arrival and tested Angle for the title. At No Way Out, Angle held the title against Undertaker after a disputable completion where Angle stuck Taker while secured a triangle gag. Therefore, Undertaker tested Angle to a rematch on the March 3 scene of SmackDown!, where Angle won by preclusion after Mark Henry meddled and assaulted Undertaker. This guaranteed Angle would go to WrestleMania 22 as champion. Angle then started a three route quarrel with 2006 Royal Rumble victor Rey Mysterio and Randy Orton (who vanquished Mysterio at No Way Out to get access to the SmackDown headliner at WrestleMania). At WrestleMania, Angle by implication dropped the title to Mysterio in the Triple Threat match after Mysterio stuck Orton.

On May 29, 2006, Angle was drafted to the recently made ECW brand. It was amid this time he obtained the epithet "The Wrestling Machine", wearing a mouth protect and rapidly squashing rivals. After coming to ECW, he issued an open test for One Night Stand, which was acknowledged by Randy Orton. Angle crushed Orton at One Night Stand, later losing to him in a rematch at Vengeance. Point showed up sporadically on WWE TV all through mid-2006. On August 25, 2006, Angle was allowed an early discharge from his WWE contract on account of wellbeing reasons. Angle expressed in the Kurt Angle: Champion narrative DVD that he requested his discharge from WWE on the grounds that he couldn't require some serious energy off and was working harmed, extremely on a few events. He likewise expresses that when he quit, WWE lost their top ability, as he was at the extremely top of the payroll. Angle wrestled his last match at an ECW taping on August 8, against Sabu.

Point then went ahead to sign an agreement with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). The new marking was seen by some as an advancement not having sympathy toward the wellbeing of a wrestler. On September 24, 2006, amid the end fragment of No Surrender, TNA President Dixie Carter declared that TNA Wrestling had marked Angle to an agreement, with Jim Cornette presenting video footage of Angle preparing in a six-sided TNA ring. On the December 28, 2006, scene of TNA Impact!, this was reported as the "Snapshot of the Year" for TNA.

Point made his TNA debut on October 19 as a face, going up against Samoa Joe after Joe declined to give up the NWA World Heavyweight Championship belt that, as indicated by the storyline, he had stolen from Jeff Jarrett.[96] The two men wound up battling while Jarrett took the title back. Angle was then the exceptional implementer for the Title versus Profession match amongst Jarrett and Sting at Bound for Glory, be that as it may, as a major aspect of the worked complete, he took out ref Rudy Charles and accepted the ref's part for whatever remains of the match-up.  Angle's first match in TNA occurred on the November 16 airing of Impact!, where he was reserved to annihilation Abyss with the lower leg bolt and be assaulted after the match by Samoa Joe.  At Genesis, Angle crushed Samoa Joe, consummation Joe's undefeated push.

At Final Resolution, Angle was reserved to thrashing Samoa Joe in a thirty-minute Iron Man match 3–2 to win a shot at the NWA World Heavyweight Championship at Against All Odds, which he lost to Christian Cage after obstruction from Tomko and Scott Steiner. This prompted a fight amongst Angle and Steiner, with Angle sticking Steiner at Destination X. After Angle crushed Steiner, he was picked to lead a group of four different wrestlers against a group of Christian Cage's decision in a Lethal Lockdown match at April's Lockdown. Edge picked Samoa Joe, Rhino, Sting, and Jeff Jarrett for Team Angle, while Cage picked A.J. Styles, Scott Steiner, Tomko, and Abyss. The man who picked up the triumphant pinfall would turn into the main contender to Christian Cage's NWA World Heavyweight Championship. Group Angle was triumphant after Jeff Jarrett hit Abyss with a gimmicked guitar loaded with thumbtacks and permitted Sting to score the pin. Cage was set to shield the NWA World Heavyweight Championship against Sting and Angle in a triple danger match at Sacrifice. The day of the PPV, the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), the proprietors of the NWA World Heavyweight and the NWA World Tag Team Championships, stripped Cage of the title and Team 3D of the label group title. NWA Executive Director Robert K. Trobich expressed the reason was that Cage declined to protect the NWA Title at NWA live events.  At the PPV occasion, Cage, as yet holding the physical NWA Championship belt, safeguarded what was charged as the "World Heavyweight Championship" against Angle and Sting. Edge was the victor of said challenge by making Sting submit, who had actually recently stuck Cage, and was reported as the new "World Heavyweight Champion". The Impact! taking after the occasion, Angle went to the ring with another title belt, and reported he was the new "TNA World Heavyweight Champion". Afterward, Cage and Sting went to the ring and the three started to contend over who was the new TNA World Heavyweight Champion. Because of the disputable completion to their match at Sacrifice, the title was proclaimed empty by Cornette. A competition was held for the title which finished in a King of the Mountain match at Slammiversary on June 17, 2007. At the occasion, Angle turned into the TNA World Heavyweight Champion by vanquishing Cage, Samoa Joe, A.J. Styles, and Chris Harris. He then assaulted Joe in the wake of denying a solicitation for a handshake, reigniting their fight. This additionally turned Angle heel all the while.

At Victory Road, recently delegated X Division Champion Samoa Joe cooperated with Kurt Angle to confront TNA Tag Team Champions Team 3D, with the stipulation that if a wrestler stuck the other rival, he won his championship. As a component of the arranged result of the match, Joe stuck Brother Ray of Team 3D to win both label group belts, which he held by himself. On the accompanying scene of Impact!, Joe – now holding the X Division and Tag Team Championships, tested Angle – the ruling TNA and (IGF perceived) IWGP Heavyweight Champion, to a Winner Take All match at Hard Justice. While delineating how he would take away everything critical in Angle's life, Joe brought Angle's better half Karen into the brawl, as she requested a divorce. During the match, nonetheless, Karen turned on Joe and helped her husband. As a major aspect of his next push, Angle won, increasing every one of the titles and turning into the second Triple Crown champion in TNA and the first to hold each of the three titles in the meantime. Counting the IWGP title, this made Angle a fourfold champion (and since Joe held the label group titles without anyone else, that implied Angle's triumph gave him both label group title belts, which means Angle was presently possessing five title belts). Angle, in any case, dropped both the X Division and Tag Team Titles to Jay Lethal and Team Pacman, separately, at No Surrender. At Bound for Glory, Angle lost the TNA World Championship to Sting, yet won it back on the October 25 scene of Impact!.

Edge then united with A.J. Styles and Tomko as The Angle Alliance at Turning Point against Samoa Joe, Kevin Nash, and Scott Hall. Styles had made arrangements for Christian's Coalition and The Angle Alliance to collaborate together, yet Christian Cage requested to be the pioneer of The Angle Alliance after Cage precluded Angle's solicitation from claiming being his "toady". At Final Resolution, Angle effectively protected the TNA World Heavyweight Championship against Cage because of impedance from Styles and again at Against All Odds with assistance from Tomko. At Lockdown, Angle lost the TNA World Heavyweight Championship to Samoa Joe in the wake of being stuck.

Point returned on the release of October 10 of Impact assaulting EGO and tested Bobby Roode to a match at Bound For Glory. The next week, Angle expressed his dissatisfaction with Roode taunting his Hall of Fame enlistment and told Roode he would make him tap out. Roode reacted by assaulting Angle with assistance from his group, EGO, driving Angle to submit to the crossface hold in a preliminary demonstration preceding their match. At the PPV Angle was enlisted into the TNA Hall of Fame however he declined to acknowledge the offer as he felt he had let himself, TNA and the fans down and didn't merit a Hall of Fame acceptance service. He additionally said he would acknowledge the offer when he feels he has earned it despite everything he has incredible things to do in TNA. Later in that night, Angle was crushed by Roode, after he landed ponderously from a running stomach to-tummy suplex. On October 31 scene of Impact, Angle lied about increasing medicinal leeway Angle endured (kayfabe) shakings amid the match against Bobby Roode after a terrible arriving from the same move once more, which brought about arbitrator Brian Hebner remunerating a thump out/check out triumph to Roode. After the match, he additionally hinted at post-concussive amnesia. On November 5, Angle was accounted for to had tried negative for blackout, however his repeating knee wounds still required monitoring. The next week, Angle saw the New Main Event Mafia being disbanded, then he was assaulted by Roode after he blamed him to utilize his wounds to escape the match. On November 14, Angle won an accommodation match against Austin Aries in the World title competition, yet by utilizing Roode's finisher: arm trap crossface, with Roode viewing on at the ramp. However, Angle lost his next match against Magnus because of an impedance from Roode. At Final Resolution, Angle was vanquished by Roode in a 2-out-of 3 falls match, however Angle beat Roode in a Steel Cage match at Genesis to end the quarrel.

On February 6, 2014, Angle had a match against Magnus. Be that as it may, he won by DQ, when EC3 assaulted him, playing out a leglock, which harmed his knee. On February 27, 2014, Angle authoritatively acknowledged his acceptance into the TNA Hall of Fame, yet the service was hindered by EC3, Angle assaulted Ethan Carter III, on the following week, Angle was assaulted by Ethan Carter III and seriously harmed his knees, in this way losing his opportunity to battle at Lockdown. Angle made his arrival on April 17, and vowing revenge. On April 24, after Kurt crushed Rockstar Spud in a match, EC3 assaulted Angle however Willow made the recovery. At Sacrifice Willow and Kurt Angle crushed Ethan Carter III and Rockstar Spud. In May, Angle experienced ACL repair surgery and was sidelined.

On June 20, 2014, Angle was named Executive Director of Wrestling Operations of TNA by TNA's Board of Directors. He declared a TNA World Heavyweight Championship rematch for the version of July 3 of Impact Wrestling amongst Lashley and Eric Young, and reestablish Bobby Roode, who had been uncertainly suspended by MVP. Edge likewise resigned the TNA Television Championship, which had not been seen or protected since Abyss won it at Slammiversary 2013. On September 18, 2014 (disclosed on October 29 because of tape deferral), Angle refereed the TNA World Heavyweight Championship between Bobby Roode and Bobby Lashley. Point's agreement with TNA was expected to terminate on September 14, 2014. Around this time he connected with Vince McMahon to offer his administrations for an arrival to the WWE. Unbeknownst to him Triple H had assumed control over McMahon's previous obligations. Edge offered to return as low maintenance wrestler because of worries of his age and wellbeing. Point was found napping when WWE declined his administrations. It is hypothesized that WWE just offered a full-time contract which Angle didn't acknowledge or WWE declined his arrival due to past relationship issues with him. After he was denied by WWE, he immediately marked low maintenance contract with TNA Wrestling. On September 21, 2014, Angle's agreement with TNA terminated, finishing his eight-year residency with the company. Angle prodded an arrival to WWE, in any case, he was offered a full-time contract, so Angle chose to stay with TNA.

Point came back to in-ring activity on TNA's presentation on Destination America on January 7, 2015, when he halted a fight, however began a road battle against MVP. On January 31, 2015 (broadcast March 20), Angle vanquished Lashley to win the TNA World Heavyweight Championship for a record 6th time. He lost to Eric Young on May 1, in a stretcher match with the title not at stake. He effectively held his title against Lashley once and after that again against both Lashley and Eric Young. On May 8, Angle crushed Young to hold his title with Bully Ray as the uncommon ref. At Destination X, Kurt Angle vanquished Rockstar Spud, who surrendered the X Division Championship keeping in mind the end goal to challenge for the title. Soon thereafter, Angle again effectively guarded his title, this time against Austin Aries, who traded out his Feast or Fired contract to permit him a title match. On the June 25, 2015 taping of Impact Wrestling (disclosed July 1), Angle lost the title to Ethan Carter III. On the July 8 scene of Impact Wrestling, Angle confronted Carter in a rematch, in a losing exertion. On October 4, 2015, at Bound for Glory, Angle vanquished Young by means of lower leg lock accommodation. On November 19, 2015, Kurt Angle was reported for TNA's live presentation on Pop. On the November 25, 2015, scene of Impact Wrestling, Angle reported that he would stay with TNA until the finish of their Maximum Impact Tour of the UK on January 31, 2016, after which he would go separate ways with the company. Angle declared his "Goodbye Tour" which occurred on TNA's voyage through the UK. Point's last match was against Lashley on March 8, 2016 which wound up in a losing exertion.

n March 20, 2016, Angle vied for URFight, conflicting with previous opponent and individual WWE graduate Rey Mysterio in a losing exertion in a two-falls coordinate that considered Angle to be heel by utilizing messy strategies. Point wrestled for Revolution Pro Wrestling on June 12, where he crushed Zack Saber Jr. On May 31 it was declared that Angle will confront Cody Rhodes in a Northeast Wrestling occasion, called "Wrestling Under the Stars", that will be on August 27 at Wappingers Falls, NY. Angle lost to Rhodes at the "Wrestling Under the Stars" occasion on August 27. Edge is additionally set to go after ICW on November 20 at Fear and Loathing IX. Amid the July 27, 2016 recordings for What Culture Pro Wrestling it was uncovered that Angle would show up at their October 6, 2016 recordings.

Acting career

Point has communicated enthusiasm on a few events in seeking after an acting vocation subsequent to resigning from expert wrestling. In 2008, he made his film debut as a bigot jail agent in the short film Chains. In 2009, he played serial executioner Brad Mayfield in the film End Game. On a third season scene of Pros versus Joes, he was collaborated with Jimmy Smith and Kendall Gill against the Joes. Edge showed up in the "Fender bender Vanish" scene of Criss Angel Mindfreak. He played Russian MMA champion Koba (in a non-talking part) in the 2011 film Warrior, and featured as town sheriff Will Logan in the film River of Darkness. On the Right After Wrestling program on Sirius Satellite Radio, Angle uncovered he would turn into low maintenance wrestler after his agreement lapsed in 2011 to concentrate on Angle Foods and his acting career. In the 2013 film Pro Wrestlers versus Zombies, he plays himself as both a human and a zombie. Angle likewise had a little part in the 2014 clique film Sharknado 2: The Second One and in the 2014 lighthearted comedy film Not Cool. He showed up in the film The Last Witch Hunter. He additionally showed up in the motion picture Pain and Gain in which he fights against Dwayne Johnson's character in a jail battle. Edge showed up on a scene of Duck Dynasty in February 2016.

Individual Life
 

Edge was conceived in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, the child of Jackie and David Angle. He went to Clarion University of Pennsylvania, graduating with a degree in training in 1993. Angle is a Christian.

Edge has four more seasoned siblings (one of whom, Eric, is additionally a wrestler) and a sister, Le'Anne, who passed on in 2003. His dad, a crane operator,  was murdered in a development mishap when Angle was sixteen, and Angle devoted both his vocation and his life account It's True, It's True to him therefore. Point expressed in a meeting that, taking after the demise of his dad, he respected his wrestling mentor, David Schultz, as a fatherly figure. While preparing Angle, Schultz was killed in January 1996 by John Eleuthère du Pont, the supporter of Schultz's group of Olympic prospectives. Angle's mom kicked the bucket in 2015 after a long fight with cancer.

He wedded Karen Smedley on December 19, 1998, In September 2008, it was accounted for that Karen had petitioned for separation from Kurt. They have two youngsters together, a girl named Kyra Angle (conceived December 2, 2002) and child named Kody Angle (conceived October 26, 2006).

In 2010, It was accounted for that Angle was locked in to performer Giovanna Yannotti. On September 30, 2010, Yannotti declared that the couple was expecting their first child. On January 22, 2011, Yannotti brought forth a girl named Giuliana Marie Angle. Angle and Yannotti were hitched on July 20, 2012. They had their second kid together and fourth for Angle, a little girl named Sophia Laine Angle on New Year's Eve, 2012. On July 26, 2016, Angle reported on Instagram that the couple were expecting their third youngster together and fifth for Angle.

Edge is an enthusiast of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

In 2008, Angle was chosen to be included on the spread for metal band Emmure's second collection The Respect Issue where he is portrayed on the front and back spreads for the record and in addition in the trim. Edge additionally encourage advanced the collection by wearing an Emmure shirt amid battles communicate on TNA Impact!.

In July 2015, Angle was relied upon to show up at London Comic Con in England however his administration group tweeted that Angle experienced crisis surgery to evacuate liquid development on his spinal string after the greater part of his limits went numb. A week prior to this crisis, he had surgery to expel a kindhearted tumor from his neck.

Point is a Republican and bolstered Marco Rubio for President in 2016.

On March 6, 2007, Sports Illustrated reported that Angle's name was found in the customer database of a Florida health focus associated with being a front for conveying execution upgrading drugs. The magazine claimed Angle had gotten solutions for trenbolone (which is not affirmed for human use by the FDA) and nandrolone, both anabolic steroids. Point reacted on his official site: "I didn't despicably get remedies. It is very much reported that in my vocation I have softened vertebrae up my neck on five events and every time the course of treatment was under the consideration and supervision of my specialists. Any endeavor to connection me to the competitors in the present news accounts who may have despicably looked for execution improving medications is without foundation."

Roughly two weeks after the fact on March 19, 2007, Sports Illustrated posted on its site another article in its proceeding with arrangement exploring a steroid and HGH ring utilized by various expert competitors in a few games. That article said that 10 other expert wrestlers were involved to have gotten execution upgrading drugs from the same medication ring including four WWE wrestlers and Eddie Guerrero. Kurt never fizzled a medication test for agony pills. He did, be that as it may, fall flat a steroid test under WWE's Wellness Policy since his medicine for Deca-Durabolin had expired.

Point was captured at his home by Moon Township, Pennsylvania police on September 28, 2007, on a charge of driving impaired in the wake of being accounted for by a lady who guaranteed that he just about hit her while leaving a neighborhood eatery. Authorities said Angle fizzled a field moderation test yet declined a blood test. Edge was accused of driving impaired and rushed driving, yet he denied the charges. On September 9, 2008, Angle was cleared of all charges relating to his DUI arrest.

On August 15, 2009, Pittsburgh-based NBC subsidiary WPXI reported that Angle had been captured. His better half expressed that she had recorded an assurance from misuse (PFA) request and that he was stalking her in the Robinson Township zone. Point was accused of "driving while working benefit is suspended, denied acts-ownership, provocation and precluded acts". Hygetropin, a human development hormone, was found in his auto; Angle kept up that he had a medicine for the drug. On September 15, a District Court Judge dropped the badgering, suspended permit, and medication charges against Angle. On November 9, 2009, the PFA charges were dropped after he and previous sweetheart Trenesha Biggers achieved a consent to maintain a strategic distance from contact with each other.

On March 25, 2011, Angle was captured in Thompson, North Dakota and accused of "being in control of an engine vehicle while inebriated" in the wake of fizzling a field moderation test. Angle later conceded to the charges and was sentenced on April 20 to one year of unsupervised probation, a compound reliance assessment, a $250 fine, $225 in court expenses, and a ten-day suspended sentence.

Edge was captured on September 4, 2011, by Virginia State Troopers for purportedly driving impaired. Point was set in Warren County Jail, before posting $2,000 safeguard and being discharged in the early morning. State police uncovered that Angle's underlying breath test at the scene, where he was halted by police demonstrated a blood-liquor centralization of 0.091 percent, which was over the lawful furthest reaches of 0.08 percent. The test was later managed not allowable and when a second test, taken at the police headquarters, demonstrated a blood-liquor convergence of 0.06, the DUI accusation was dropped. Point was still accused of foolhardy driving. On November 8, 2011, Angle entered a request of no challenge and was fined $1,500.

On August 2, 2013, Angle was again accused of driving while inebriated in Decatur, Texas. Later that same day, Angle reported he was quickly entering a restoration focus.

 

Titles and accomplishments

Beginner wrestling

Canadian Cup Championship

Victor (1990)

University/High School

Pennsylvania State Wrestling Champion (1987)

Clarion University Freshman of the Year (1988)

Global Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles

FILA Junior World Freestyle Champion (1988)

FILA World Championships gold decoration in free-form wrestling (100 kg) (1995)

Global Sports Hall of Fame

Class of 2016

National Amateur Wrestling

National Amateur Wrestling Hall of Fame (Class of 2001)

National Collegiate Athletic Association

NCAA Division I All-American (1990–1992)

NCAA Division I Champion (1990, 1992)

Olympic Games

Summer Olympics gold decoration in free-form wrestling (heavyweight) (1996)

USA Wrestling

USA Junior Freestyle Champion (1987)

USA Senior Freestyle Champion (1995, 1996)

USA Wrestling Hall of Fame (Class of 2001)

Most noteworthy Shoot Wrestler of All-Time

Proficient wrestling

Cauliflower Alley Club

Future Legend Award (2000)

Inoki Genome Federation

IWGP Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

Global Wrestling Institute and Museum

George Tragos/Lou Thesz Hall of Fame (2012)

Unique honoree (2015)

Control Pro Wrestling

PPW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

Expert Wrestling Illustrated

Rebound of the Year (2003)

Fight of the Year (2000)vs. Triple H

Fight of the Year (2003) versus Brock Lesnar

Fight of the Year (2007) versus Samoa Joe

Match of the Year (2003) versus Brock Lesnar in an Iron Man match on SmackDown! on September 16

Match of the Year (2005) versus Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania 21

Most Hated Wrestler of the Year (2000)

Most Inspirational Wrestler of the Year (2001)

Most Popular Wrestler of the Year (2003)

Freshman of the Year (2000)

Wrestler of the Year (2003)

Positioned 1 of the main 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2001

SoCal Uncensored

Match of the Year (2000) versus Christopher Daniels, September 13, 2000, Ultimate Pro Wrestling

Add up to Nonstop Action Wrestling

TNA World Heavyweight Championship (6 times)

TNA X Division Championship (1 time)

TNA World Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Himself/Sting (1)1 and A.J. Styles (1)

Lord of the Mountain (2007, 2009)

TNA Hall of Fame (Class of 2013)

Second TNA Triple Crown Champion

Fight of the Year (2006, 2007) with Samoa Joe

Match of the Year (2007) versus Sting at Bound for Glory, October 14, 2007

World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment

WWF/E Championship (4 times)

World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

WCW Championship (1 time)

WCW United States Championship (1 time)

WWF Intercontinental Championship (1 time)

WWF European Championship (1 time)

WWF Hardcore Championship (1 time)

WWE Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Chris Benoit

WWE Tag Team Championship Tournament (2002)

Lord of the Ring (2000)

Tenth Triple Crown Champion

Fifth Grand Slam Champion

Wrestling Observer Newsletter

Best Gimmick (2000)

Best on Interviews (2002)

Best Technical Wrestler (2002)

Fight of the Year (2003) versus Brock Lesnar

Match of the Year with Chris Benoit versus Edge and Rey Mysterio, No Mercy 2002

Most Improved (2000)

Most Outstanding Wrestler (2001–2003)

Perusers' Favorite Wrestler (2002, 2003)

Wrestler of the Year (2002)

Wrestler of the Decade (2000–2009)

Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (Class of 2004)