whatever happened to kurt angle?
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On August 25, 2006, Angle was granted an early release from his WWE contract due to "personal issues". In September 2006, Angle's business manager, Dave Hawk, stated "Kurt Angle...has retired from professional wrestling [and] now plans to fight in the MMA in 2007."\n\nAngle made his debut on the October 19, 2006 confronting Samoa Joe after Joe refused to relinquish the NWA World Heavyweight Championship belt that he had stolen from Jeff Jarrett. The two men ended up fighting while Jarrett took the title back. Angle would then be the special enforcer for the Title vs. Career match between Jeff Jarrett and Sting at Bound for Glory 2006 but took out the referee of the match and assumed the referee's role for the rest of the match-up.
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Kurt Angle has been drafted to the ECW.   If you saw when he came out,   his mouthpiece said "violence" on it.  He will be leaving Smackdown.   He showed up at Raw to spark a fire between Raw and ECW.
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I've heard that he came close to returning but the sides weren't in agreement in regards to money. I think he will return eventually but he lost a lot of respect in the lockerroom because a lot of wrestlers helped bring him to the top (via losing to him) and he got to the top in a very short time because guys were willing to lose to him, but when he got to the top, he quit and that doesn't bode too well with other wrestlers who spend many years just trying to get to main event status. Look at this way, Brock Lesnar was with the company for less than a year and he won the championship and quit where Edge has been with the company for over 7 years and he got to hold the belt for a couple of weeks.
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here is some more info on his suspension:\n\nMain-event WWE SmackDown! wrestler Randy Orton was suspended indefinitely by WWE (with a sixty day minimum) this past week following a major incident that only worsened his already poor backstage reputation.\n\nAccording to the Wrestling-Observer Newsletter, the final incident occurred at some point in Chicago—it is being called a "near disaster," and the feeling is that if Orton were not a top name, he would have been fired for his actions.\n\nBut by no means was this an isolated incident. It was Orton's behavior that initially prompted WWE management to give Kurt Angle the title vacated by Batista.\n\nAnd, while Orton avoided a suspension due to being booked for the WrestleMania main-event, an incident after No Way Out forced WWE to nix giving him the title at the 'Mania pay-per-view.\n\nThese individual incidents only increased management's disapproval of Orton's behavior; he was specifically notorious for disrepecting female WWE workers.\n\nAlthough the feeling is that by posting news of his suspension, WWE is practically confirming Randy Orton will come back, other insiders are not so sure that is the case and are even less sure that it will be in sixty days. There is already feeling within WWE that SmackDown! needs to create a new top heel; a returning Ken Kennedy could receive the chance to fill that slot.
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Brock Lesnar is currently trying to sign up with K-1's mixed martial arts "Hero" division. I believe he may even have had a match or two in MMA. The WWE will probably never hire him again.\n\nBill Goldberg has been trying his hand at acting (such as it is) and back in February was in talks with TNA but nothing came of that I guess. It's also unlikely you'll see him in the WWE again, considering he was WCW-made and Vince McMahon only hired him to humiliate him and make him look worse than his bald-and-black-trunked counterpart Steve Austin.\n\nDave Batista is injured and will return.\n\nStephanie McMahon is still working in the "creative" department (writing the storylines etc.) and can basically write herself back on TV whenever she wants. Let's hope she doesn't.
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Yeah and it sucks!! he was been robbed!! RVD could not win without the help of Edge and it was his place,the ECW. i don't hate RVD, i like him but he turn his back on WWE and joined ECW.
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I don't know but I miss him. WWE Raw isn't the same without the Sherrif. Also The Rock needs to come back I miss smelling what he was cooking!! LOL
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His neck and knees are a mess and don't allow him to perform up to the level that he'd like so he walked away.  He's said it's possible that he could come back for the odd match in the future (the big rumour was a match with Hulk Hogan at WrestleMania 23 but that's not going to happen) but it isn't too likely.\n\nNow he's focused on acting.  He recently finished filming "The Condemned" for WWE Films which will be released in early 2007.
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simple...he debuted on TNA with Kevin Nash but later was released because of his ongoing alcohol addiction and then he went to mexico...however...hes "trying" to clean himself and plans on making a return to TNA
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I'm not mad that Kurt won title, but it does make me wonder how Kurt end up entering the battle royal in Smackdown knowing that he's from RAW.No need to ask why he did it.Another thing,who's the "genius" behind the line up of superstars that were picked to compete for the title? There were some potential wrestlers that I thought had a chance: Rey Mysterio,Matt Hardy,Mark Henry,JBL.
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yes but he will come back soon & show all the world that he is the best.\n\nHonors/Awards & Service\nWWE World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. Superstar Kurt Angle is ranked 3rd in the World’s Best Professional Sport Entertainers. At age of 36, Angle is a 5 time WWE World Champion who has won the WCW, Intercontinental, European, Hardcore Championships and King of the Ring. This 1996 Olympic Gold Medalist, 1995 World Champion and 6-time US National Champion has more than 29 years of blood, sweat and tears of experience in the wrestling business. Over the past couple years Angle was inducted into three Hall of Fames (The Pennsylvania, Heinz Museum West PA and South Western PA).\n\nExperience\nAngle is considered a true leader and one of the World's Best Free Style Wrestlers ever to work the mat. In addition to his leadership skills, athletic and entertainment talents, Angle makes personal time to support many charities including Make-A-Wish, Get Tough on Angina Campaign, WWE’s Get Out & Vote and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s “After School All Stars”. Angle’s now setting his vision to establish himself as a community leader and desires serve as the next Chairman on “the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness." Kurt Angle has worked with fortune 500 companies as a Director, Speaker and Spokesperson. He's been a key management speaker and spokesperson for AAFES, Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Coca-Cola, AT&T and GMC to name a few. Angle's also a director for Maximum Human Performance and works with General Nutrition Corporation from time to time.\n\nPublic Appearances\nAngle has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Conan O’Brien Show, Regis and MTV.
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it was a fluke and i dont think he will keep his championship for long unless by DQ or interference by other superstars like Mark Henry when Kurt Angle almost beat Rey.
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he got fired shortly after the royal rumble
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Bad move TNA to take in a guy who is retiring soon.If Kurt is in his prime days,then it's a different story.
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Ignore most of the answers above.  Here is the Real reason.\n\nJim F has it right....Kurt has a very serious neck injury that he should not be working with at all.  He said in a shoot interview (meaning it wasn't "in character", but an interview with the actual person) that he has been taking up to 60 pain pills a day to cope with his nagging injuries.\n\nThe WWE came to an agreement with Kurt for his release, in the hopes that it would be a wake up call.  They offered to pay for drug rehab, to get him off of his pain pill addiction.  They did the same thing when they released Eddie Guerrero in 2002, and when Eddie completed rehab and cleaned up, the WWE resigned him and pushed him to main event status.\n\nAngle was insulted and felt that he does not need rehab.  As his contract did not have a 90 day no-compete stipulation (which most WWE wrestlers have to prevent them from immediately switching to the competition), he was able to sign a contract with TNA wrestling that same week.\n\nYou can find several interviews Kurt did about the situation (interviews where he is out of character and speaking about the business itself, not like the in-character interviews you see on tv) where he goes into greater detail.  Check the archives of gerweck.net or wrestlingobserver.com.  There should still be a few up there.
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I got this from 411mania.com - that site it awesome for wrestling news.\n\n"Some more information on the Randy Orton situation has come out. First of all, it has nothing to do with the baseline drug testing that was recently administered. Apparently Orton has been having issues since January, when Kurt Angle was brought to Smackdown. There have been a number of disciplinary problems since then that have been kept inside the company. During the WrestleMania weekend, he flagrantly defied the dress code. All of these issues have been building, causing a lot of heat with the locker room. It looks like this all came to a climax and WWE felt that they had no choice but to discipline him."
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Many have come and gone....and their were a lot of greats....but in my opinion....Kurt Angle is the best....the training he did to become a gold medal wrestler....the fact that he won gold at the olympics in wrestling, than he went on to become a wwe wrestler and over the years, rather than executing the same move set over and over....he kept developing his move set, adding moves that he learned from other people....not too mention that he does other peoples moves better than they can.......he can go hardcore, he can be a good guy, or a heel....he can be technical, beat you down, and he can even do high risk, high flying moves...........all of this skill has made it possible for Kurt Angle to win every single championship that was ever available to him........with the exception of the N.W.A. belt.....which likely is enevitable, and won't take too long I should hope.