Kurt Angle: biography, sports career, films, photos

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Kurt Angle is an American wrestler and showman. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2017. Kurt is the 1995 freestyle wrestling world champion and 1996 Olympic gold medalist. Acted as an actor in a large number of wrestling films and WWE series, as well as in a few feature films.

Biography

The man's full name is Kurt Stephen Angle. The wrestler is 183 centimeters tall and weighs 105 kilograms.

Kurt was born on 1968-09-12 in Moon Township, Pennsylvania. The showman's childhood passed in Pittsburgh. In college, Angle was fond of sports, especially freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling. Even then, the guy won many sports awards.

Kurt competed in the 1995 World Freestyle Wrestling Championship and won it. In 1996, Angle went to the Olympic Games and won a gold medal there.

Kurt's portrait has been hanging in the WWE Hall of Fame since 2017.

WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment)

Kurt has been with WWE since 1998. Then the wrestler signed a contract with them for eight years. As part of these competitions, Kurtwrestled with such wrestlers as Brian Christopher, Sean Stesiak, Tazz.

WWE is not an ordinary sport: since the 1980s, WWE shows have been classified as sports entertainment. The WWE company is engaged in holding public sporting events, releases films, clothes, music, computer video games dedicated to wrestling. Special stories are being developed for WWE TV shows.

Thus, according to one of the plots of the show, Jason Jordan learns that he is the son of Kurt Angle, born as a result of his relationship with one of the girls during his college years. This helped explain Jordan's appointment to the Raw team to fight other wrestlers.

On the show, Kurt often refers to himself as "America's Hero" for winning the Olympics. The showman considers his best qualities to be purposefulness, work for results and intelligence.

Angle is considered the WWF European and Intercontinental Champion until 2000. In 2000, in the "triple threat" competition with Chris Benoit and Chris Jericho, Kurt lost the championship title.

Leaving the federation and returning to WWE

Wrestling is a rather cruel and traumatic sport. Kurt year after year won championship belts, got injured, lost the championship, and then came back and won again.

In July 2005, after another defeat, Kurt Angle heard the audience chanting "You suck!" This offended Kurt very much, he turned to the public, and then completely decided to leave the WWE competition and the WWF federation.

In January 2017, Kurt was included inWWE Hall of Fame. Angle returned to the company as Raw's new general manager.

In October 2017, wrestler Roman Reigns was unable to perform on the show due to illness, and Kurt replaced him in the ring as part of the Shield team.

Movies

Kurt Angle is not only a wrestler and showman, but also a real actor. He is filmed not only in WWE wrestling films, but also in the most ordinary feature films.

Since 1993, Kurt has been a regular on WWE Raw, WWE SmackDown. As himself, he has played roles in WWF films Armageddon, No Escape, King of the Ring, Full Load, Invasion, Unforgiven and more.

Since 2004, the wrestler has appeared in TNA and ECW sports projects.

In 2009, Angle played the role of Manfield in the drama The Last Game directed by Bruce Kohler. In the same year, the actor starred in the short film "Chains" directed by Steve Sanders.

Drama "Warrior"

In 2011, Kurt starred in Greg O'Connor's Warrior. This film is a mixed martial arts sports drama. Kurt played a supporting role in the film, played a character named Koba. Koba is an invincible Russian warrior, with whom the main character will fight in the final picture.

The main roles in the film were played by actors Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton, Nick Nolte, Frank Grillo, Jennifer Morrison and others. The film was well received by critics and audiences alike. The film was nominated for Oscar, Satellite, Critics' Choice Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards,MTV award. Warrior grossed just over $23 million at the box office.