Kurt Angle

Kurt Steven Angle is an American retired professional wrestler and former amateur wrestler, born on December 9, 1968. He first earned recognition for winning a gold medal in freestyle wrestling at the 1996 Summer Olympics despite competing with a broken neck, after winning two NCAA Division I heavyweight titles at Clarion University of Pennsylvania and the 1995 World Wrestling Championships. He signed with the WWF in 1998, made his televised in-ring debut in November 1999, won the 2000 King of the Ring tournament and won the WWF Championship four times. He later joined TNA, where he became the inaugural and a record six-time TNA World Heavyweight Champion, and won the IWGP Heavyweight Championship once. He was inducted into the TNA Hall of Fame in 2013 and the WWE Hall of Fame in 2017.