Kurt Angle Net Worth

Kurt Angle net worth

Current Net Worth – $5 Million (USD – 50 Lakhs), (Rupees – 38 Crores)

Kurt Angle short biography

Kurt Angle has a net worth of $5 Million (Rupees – 38 Crores), an American Retired Professional Wrestler and Olympic Gold Medalist, he is one of the awesome wrestlers in WWE.

Kurt Steven Angle is a former collegiate wrestler and retired professional wrestler from the United States.

He won an Olympic gold medal in American freestyle wrestling.

His tenures in WWE and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling are his most well-known accomplishments (TNA).

Angle has won 21 championships in total, including the WWF/WWE, Japan, and TNA, and is a 13-time world champion.

Angle is also the only individual to have held both the WWE and TNA Triple Crowns, as well as becoming King of the Ring (WWE) and King of the Mountain (TNA).

He has headlined multiple pay-per-view events for the WWF/WWE and TNA, including three times at WrestleMania XIX and Bound for Glory, the respective companies’ premier events.

Angle was inducted into the Wrestling Observer Newsletter’s Hall of Fame in 2004 and was awarded “Wrestler of the Decade” for the 2000s.

He is regarded as one of the all-time best professional wrestlers.

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Kurt Angle biography

Angle was born on December 9, 1968, in Mt. Lebanon Township, Pennsylvania, a Pittsburgh suburb, to Jackie and David Angle.

Angle has four elder brothers (one of which, Eric, is also a professional wrestler) and a sister, Le’Anne, who passed away in 2003.

Angle devoted both his career and his memoirs to his father, a crane operator, who died in a construction accident when he was 16 years old.

Following the loss of his father, Angle described his wrestling teacher, David Schultz, as a paternal figure in an interview.

Schultz was assassinated in January 1996 while training Angle by John Eleuthère du Pont, the patron of Schultz’s Olympic hopefuls.

In 2015, Angle’s mother died of cancer. His ancestors are Italian, Irish, English, German, and Lithuanian.

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Education

He earned a bachelor’s degree in education from the Clarion University of Pennsylvania in 1993.

Career

Wrestling career

Kurt Angle began amateur wrestling when he was seven years old. He was an All-State linebacker at Mt. Lebanon High School, where he earned varsity letters in football and wrestling.

Angle continued to wrestle after graduating from college. He earned a gold medal at the FILA World Wrestling Championships in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1995.

Angle said in April 2011 that he was considering a return to amateur wrestling in time for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

Angle was inducted into the International Sports Hall of Fame in 2016 for his achievements in amateur wrestling.

Professional wrestling

Shane Douglas, a fellow Pittsburgh native, persuaded Angle to attend the Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) event High Incident on October 26, 1996.

In February of 2000, Angle won both the European and Intercontinental Championships.

When the WWF bought World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and ECW, the wrestlers from both organizations banded together to create The Alliance, which attacked the WWF in mid-2001 (dubbed “The Invasion”).

Angle competed in his first Royal Rumble match on January 20, 2002, at the Royal Rumble, where he made it to the last two before being eliminated by eventual winner Triple H.

Dr. Hae-Dong Jho conducted neck surgery on Angle on April 11, 2003, to address nerve and spinal injuries, calcium deposits, bone spurs, and intervertebral disc issues.

Angle challenged the contestants to a squat thrust competition on the November 4, 2004, edition of SmackDown! during an unscripted section of Tough Enough.

Angle was given an early release from his WWE contract on August 25, 2006, due to health issues.

On June 17, 2007, a tournament was conducted for the championship, culminating in a King of the Mountain encounter at Slammiversary.

On the live three-hour Monday night broadcast of Impact! on January 4, 2010, Angle was given a chance to challenge A.J. Styles for the World Heavyweight Championship, however, he was beaten in the show’s main event.

Angle assisted Sting in reclaiming the TNA World Heavyweight Championship from Anderson on the July 14, 2011, edition of Impact Wrestling.

Angle and Samoa Joe beat Devon and a masked member of Aces & Eights in a steel cage tag team match on the January 3, 2013 edition of Impact Wrestling.

TNA’s board of directors designated Angle Executive Director of Wrestling Operations on June 20, 2014.

Angle beat Young by ankle lock submission at Bound for Glory on October 4, 2015.

Angle competed for Northeast Wrestling in Connecticut on March 3, 2017, and was beaten in a steel cage bout by Cody Rhodes.

Angle made a surprise return to Raw on October 8, 2018, dressed as “The Conquistador” and wins a battle royal after last eliminating Baron Corbin and qualifying for the WWE World Cup at Crown Jewel.

Angle made an appearance on Raw Reunion on July 22, 2019, and raised a toast with Triple H, Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan, Stone Cold Steve Austin, and other wrestlers from his heyday.

Angle served as a special guest referee in a steel cage match between Matt Riddle and Timothy Thatcher on the May 27, 2020 episode of NXT.

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Private & early life

On December 19, 1998, Angle married Karen Smedley. Karen filed for divorce from Kurt in September 2008, according to reports. They have a daughter, born on December 2, 2002, and a boy, born on October 26, 2006.

Angle was believed to be engaged to actress Giovanna Yannotti, who was 19 years his junior, in 2010. They are the parents of four children (one adopted).

On January 22, 2011, they welcomed their first child. On July 20, 2012, Angle and Yannotti married. On December 31, 2012, they welcomed their second child. On November 5, 2016, their third daughter was born. On June 10, 2019, it was confirmed that Angle and his wife are adopting a boy from Bulgaria.

Angle is a devout follower of Jesus Christ. In the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries, he backed Marco Rubio. He is a Pittsburgh Steelers and Pittsburgh Penguins, enthusiast.

Angle had emergency surgery in July 2015 to remove fluid accumulation on his spinal cord after all of his extremities became numb.

He underwent surgery to remove a benign tumor from his neck a week before this incident.

Awards

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