Angle Shooting: UFC President Dana White Offered Kurt Angle TUF 10 Spot, Not PPV Fight
by Mike Fagan on Oct 2, 2011 3:56 PM EDT
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Search Google for "Kurt Angle UFC" and you'll come back with hits as far back as 2006. The former WWE superstar and current TNA heavyweight champion has bragged about Dana White offering him contracts to fight in the UFC. In the latest iteration, Angle claims that White offered him a pay-per-view fight against Kimbo Slice.
White spoke with MMA Junkie about Angle's latest braggadocio. While he denies the PPV claim, Kurt Angle was closer to fighting in the UFC than one might think:
"What I offered him was, I said, 'Come over here. I'll put you on 'The Ultimate Fighter,''" White said. "The season Kimbo Slice was on, I was going to put him on 'The Ultimate Fighter.' He wanted to do it.
"We worked out a deal, but he didn't pass the medicals."
Angle famously made the 1996 Olympic Wrestling Team despite fracturing two of his cervical verterbrae, herniating two discs, and pulling four muscles. He would go on, with the help of pain-reducing injections, to win the gold medal. Those neck problems continued through his pro wrestling career. After allegations that he received prescriptions for the steroid trenbolone, Angle noted that he had broken verterbrae five times in his career.
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This would have been fantastically insane. For some reason, I actually believe this story.
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Oh, it's sad! It's DAMN sad!
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by mountaineers101 on Oct 2, 2011 3:36 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
I do too.
Kimbo/ Angle would’ve been America Idol level ratings
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by ElliotMatheny on Oct 2, 2011 5:40 PM EDT up reply actions
We live in a world where Evander Holyfield can still box and Kurt Angle isn’t healthy enough to compete on one of the worst talent pools in TUF history. Just goes to show how bad of shape Kurt is in.
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I’m quite confident that Kurt Angle will die in the ring like Mitsuharu Misawa. Honest to God, I feel like he can go at any time. He’s such a wreck.
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One more neck injury and it should be the wheelchair for Kurt. Really pitiful that TNA is in such poor shape that Sting is still main eventing against Ric Flair and your competition wants to chance it on a reality show instead of wrestling for you.
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by mountaineers101 on Oct 2, 2011 3:38 PM EDT up reply actions
Honestly, TNA is garbage.
They don’t pay for their wrestlers’ medical bills, force them to cover their own expenses, and refuse to push newer stars for the short term gain of milking their old stars.
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by McKinley B. Noble on Oct 2, 2011 6:52 PM EDT up reply actions
You have got to respect the HELL out of Kurt Angle for winning a GOLD fucking medal with all those disabilities. Amazing. Kurt’s body has robbed of an all time great career but you gotta hand it to him for achieving what he has. I HATE pro wrestling but respect what he has achieved in wrestling, wish he could have held up for MMA, he would have been a beast.
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Agree entirely with everything you said.
.....
by Scabby Knuckle on Oct 2, 2011 4:25 PM EDT up reply actions
Also, from a pro wrestling perspective, he was an animal and did some insane stuff for the fans of it. Moonsaults off a steel cage? Ridiculous. He is definitely an under appreciated pro wrestler who was a phenomenal hell with great in-ring ability. To go from the Olympics, to that, to wanting to become a mixed martial artist? The guy has guts and heart, even if that is all he has left.
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by mountaineers101 on Oct 2, 2011 4:34 PM EDT up reply actions
heel*
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by mountaineers101 on Oct 2, 2011 4:35 PM EDT up reply actions
uh
He got all those problems after the olympic wrestling. I can respect that and all, but there’s no reason to infer that he won gold with all those problems ahead of time.
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by Cory Braiterman on Oct 2, 2011 4:56 PM EDT up reply actions
uh…
Angle famously made the 1996 Olympic Wrestling Team despite fracturing two of his cervical verterbrae, herniating two discs, and pulling four muscles. He would go on, with the help of pain-reducing injections, to win the gold medal.
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by crizzy on Oct 2, 2011 6:03 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
in other words
“I won a gold medal with a broken freakin’ neck!”
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by Earl Montclair on Oct 2, 2011 6:38 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
well i take it back
I thought it was all after. my apologies.
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by Cory Braiterman on Oct 3, 2011 1:23 AM EDT up reply actions
This was in last night’s media scrum. Dana was choosing his words very carefully, stressing several times that he likes Angle even though this item needed correcting.
Dana tried not to bury Angle.
He just gets too much questions on Angle and the motherfucker can’t stop talking about the UFC.
by TrailerParkTrash on Oct 2, 2011 3:43 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Couldnt pass his medicals you say?
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by Earl Montclair on Oct 2, 2011 3:40 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Imagine if Angle made TUF.
Added spectacle to an already crazy season.
by TrailerParkTrash on Oct 2, 2011 3:42 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Wtf happened to angle?
he is looking crackhead skinny, I haven’t watched wrestling since 99-02 so maybe he lost it over time, is there something wrong with him?
He had to lose weight for his role in Warrior
Since the fighters were meant to be middleweights. He’s not put it back on yet. Also maybe he’s semi-serious about going to the Olympic try outs next year and he’s keeping his weight down.
Or he’s just so blazed on painkillers and whatever else his body is wasting away.
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Got clean off GH and steroids.
You will lose weight like that for sure. Reasons are the Olympic bid.
by TrailerParkTrash on Oct 2, 2011 6:00 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
God, I hope so.
Being in the WWE did nothing for monitoring his substance and painkiller use.
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by McKinley B. Noble on Oct 2, 2011 6:53 PM EDT up reply actions
WWE forced Angle to leave because he wouldn't stop and go to rehab, actually.
Weird, right?
by TrailerParkTrash on Oct 2, 2011 7:17 PM EDT up reply actions
Not to mention him going for the neck surgery he got instead of a fusion surgery that would have extended his time out but would have worked better
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by Earl Montclair on Oct 2, 2011 7:22 PM EDT up reply actions
I don't get it
This is almost exactly what Angle said earlier this week.
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Yes it is.
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nuh uh
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by Earl Montclair on Oct 2, 2011 4:24 PM EDT up reply actions
Duck Season!!!
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by Chris Hall on Oct 2, 2011 4:29 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Angle said Dana offered him a PPV slot against Kimbo
This is TUF.
Not the same
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by Earl Montclair on Oct 2, 2011 4:31 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Wabbit Season!
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by Chris Hall on Oct 2, 2011 4:48 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Well played, my friend
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All kinds of awesome!
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No it's not at all what he said!
He said he passed the medicals and was offered a PPV fight but the money wasn’t enough for him. Sounds pretty different from a contestant on TUF and failing medicals don’t you think?
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They should do an all freak season of TUF. Open weight.
Kimbo, Angle, Choi Hong-Man, with Minowaman as one of the coaches teaching them the ways of Street Fighter IV. Hadouken, mutherfuckers.
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by pud333 on Oct 2, 2011 4:32 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Add Zuluzinho and Giant Silva for Brazil
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The Butterbean as well
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by Earl Montclair on Oct 2, 2011 4:37 PM EDT up reply actions
Emanuel Yarborough is also still living, somehow.
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Really?
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Yes, and he’s apparently on Twitter.
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^what he said
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Yeah, I’m following him now. I don’t have a choice. Twitter is a magical place, where Gary Goodridge interacts with Rampage Jackson and where Emanuel Yarborough Tweets with his former Oz costar B.D. Wong. I fucking love Twitter.
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Add in the dude with the exploding ear from a few years ago.
*cue gif of exploding ear
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by Scabby Knuckle on Oct 2, 2011 5:10 PM EDT up reply actions
James “Colossus” Thompson is fighting James McSweeney coming up, if I remember correctly. I really hope McSweeney gets obliterated in that one.
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No one has seen his commercial for the couch saver?
????
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Without meaning to sound silly, but could he not get an MMA fight in Japan? Would they care about his medical problems? If they can put Jose Canseco in a ring, why not Angle
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Angle doesn’t want to fight in MMA just to do it, he wants attention. He’ll only ever fight in the UFC because he’s delusional and thinks he’s still a legitimate top tier combat sports athlete.
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Kurt Angle would never pass medicals.
So, no worry.
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by McKinley B. Noble on Oct 2, 2011 6:54 PM EDT up reply actions
Its less that he wants attention, he wants money. The UFC can offer real money. Seriously…“we worked out a deal for TUF”…that’s basically to say that Kurt would probably get an appearance fee for being on the show, like Kimbo is widely rumored to have received. It would have probably been more than what DREAM could have offered (and stiffed him for).
by VirtualBalboa on Oct 2, 2011 10:56 PM EDT up reply actions
don't know much about Angle
but I remember when he tried to get Eric the Midget hooked up with some American Idol chick on Howard Stern. Respect for that. Oh and for representing my country and whatnot.
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