Kurt Angle
Sign in to saveAmerican professional wrestler and 1996 Olympic gold medalist
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1968-12-09
- Works
- 4
Top works
- It's True! It's True!
- The Official WWE Book of Rules
- It's True! It's True!
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · 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.…
Known for
- Thy Will Be Done — Herman2025
- Saturday Night's Main Event - John Cena's Final Match — Kurt Angle2025
- WWE Legend Profiles — Kurt Angle2025
- WWE Raw Classics — Kurt Angle2025
- WWE's Greatest Moments2025
- GCW Dream On — Kurt Angle2024
- Angle — Self2023
- Ric Flair's Last Match: Preshow — Kurt Angle2022
- Starrcast V: The Roast of Ric Flair — Self2022
- Raven Van Slender Saves Christmas! — Kurt2022
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 8,296
- Total plays
- 25,789
Tags
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Kurt Angle is an amateur wrestler turned professional wrestler, currently employed by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. Kurt has been known to sing every now and then (mostly, if not always, in comedic form). The most notable songs being "I Don't Suck (Really)" from the WWE Originals album and "Sexy Kurt" (a parody of "Sexy Boy" by Shawn Michaels) from the March 24, 2005 edition of WWE Smackdown. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Kurt+Angle">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The PHQ-9
· 2001 · cited 38,081x
- A Brief Measure for Assessing Generalized Anxiety Disorder
· 2006 · cited 27,689x
- Multilayer feedforward networks are universal approximators
· 1989 · cited 17,859x
- Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics
· 2004 · cited 10,232x
- A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 9,212x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1968-12-09 ) December 9, 1968 (age 57) , Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania , U.S.
- Spouses
- Karen Smedley ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1998 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2008 ) Giovanna Yannotti ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2012 )
- Relatives
- Eric Angle (brother) Jon Bernthal (nephew-in-law)
- Website
- kurtanglebrand .com
- Billed height
- 6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
- Billed weight
- 220 lb (100 kg)
- Billed from
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Trained by
- Dory Funk Jr. Tom Prichard
- Debut
- August 20, 1998
- Retired
- April 7, 2019
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 9 December 1968
via Wikidata · CC0
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Steven
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Mt. Lebanon
- Spouse
- Karen Jarrett
- Sibling
- Eric Angle
- Occupation
- musician
- Political party
- Republican Party (United States)
- Languages spoken
- English language
Article
Kurt Steven Angle (born December 9, 1968) is an American retired professional wrestler and former amateur wrestler. He is currently a sports analyst for Real American Freestyle. He first earned recognition for winning a gold medal in freestyle wrestling at the 1996 Summer Olympics despite competing with a broken neck, and achieved wider fame and recognition for his tenures in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) from 1998 to 2006, and 2017 to 2019, and in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) from 2006 to 2016.
Angle won numerous accolades while at Clarion University of Pennsylvania, including being a two-time NCAA Division I Wrestling Champion in the Heavyweight division. After graduating, he won gold medals in freestyle wrestling at the 1995 World Wrestling Championships and 1996 Summer Olympics. He is one of four people to win the Junior Nationals, NCAA, World Championships, and the Olympics. In 2006, he was named by USA Wrestling as the greatest shoot wrestler of all time and as one of USA Wrestling's top 15 college wrestlers of all time. In 2016, he was inducted into the International Sports Hall of Fame.
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