Kurt Angle: 'Dana White Asked Me to Fight Kimbo Slice'
by Tim Burke on Sep 27, 2011 7:01 PM EDT
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Anyone who knows much about Kurt Angle knows that he is a very colorful storyteller. Basically, the truth might not be as important as the story to Kurt, who is a pro wrestler for the TNA organization. It's an old pro wrestling adage (coined by Dick Murdoch, I believe) - "If a story's worth tellin', it's worth colorin' up a little bit". Angle did an interview with UK publication The Void where he ventured further of the path of realism and actually claimed that Dana White wanted him to fight Kimbo Slice. Here, read for yourself:
I called him (White) a couple of year later – I was getting a little tired of wrestling – I said "Hey, I’m ready", so we had another meeting and he had me do a physical, and he threw a great offer at me, but said "I need you in four and a half weeks."
I said "I can"t do that. You’ve gotta give me 3-6 months," but he said "I need you in four a half weeks," so I said "Well then, we’re not going to be able to do this."
We didn’t talk for a while, but now we’re back to being good friends.
The reason Dana White wanted me so quickly though, is because he wanted to put me in the next available PPV against Kimbo Slice.
For those of you that don't know Angle, he was the 1996 Olympic heavyweight wrestling gold medal winner that transitioned to pro wrestling in the aftermath. He's also an actor in the MMA-themed movie Warrior. He's flirted with the idea of doing MMA for years, and mentions in that article that he's spoken to MMA organizations five times about it (two of the five were with the UFC).
Now it's plausible that Angle might have been brought into the UFC at some point, but not at the point he's talking about. And certainly not to fight Mr. Ferguson, who was released from the UFC in May 2010 after a loss to Matt Mitrione. Angle is now in the process of training to make the 2012 US Olympic wrestling team apparently, and I wish him luck with that. I'm sure the stories that come out of that run will be hilariously inaccurate too.
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I’d watch that freakshow.
Give us that last gift DREAM
by IRodC on Sep 27, 2011 7:02 PM EDT reply actions 3 recs
O Rly?
Cue lots of BE people angry at pro wrestling
Also Kimbo would have KO’d angle before he got a TD
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by ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ on Sep 27, 2011 7:05 PM EDT reply actions
this is absurd
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by Earl Montclair on Sep 27, 2011 7:05 PM EDT up reply actions
He wouldnt need any really
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Please beat Alistair Overeem. That is all.
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by Earl Montclair on Sep 27, 2011 7:10 PM EDT up reply actions
Oh its true, it’s damn true.
by Detective Squirts on Sep 27, 2011 7:09 PM EDT up reply actions 6 recs
Had to log in to mobile rec this.
"Nothing's ever what it seems. And even if it is, ends justify means." -Matt Good
by KingBrody on Sep 27, 2011 7:54 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Angle's neck would fall off the first time it was hit. His head is literally being held together by screws.
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you shouldnt be allowed to watch mma.
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by the-gentle-way on Sep 27, 2011 8:21 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions 1 recs
Angle is now in the process of training to make the 2012 US Olympic wrestling team apparently, and I wish him luck with that. I’m sure the stories that come out of that run will be hilariously inaccurate too.
Fuck that made me laugh.
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Goldie: He is not that good?
Kurt Angle is the prime example on what a career in professional wrestling can do to a human being.
It has to be one of the slowest, saddest downward spirals I have ever seen.
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by Earl Montclair on Sep 27, 2011 7:05 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
It seems inevitable that Angle is reaching some kind of crossroads. Between the abuse his body has taken and the painkiller/alcohol/steroid abuse, I think that will happen sooner rather than later. At this point, I’m just hopeful his story goes more the way of Eddie Guerrero than Chris Benoit.
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Make Layne Staley look like he made a rash decision
Too soon?
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
My favorite band from that scene.
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Please beat Alistair Overeem. That is all.
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by Earl Montclair on Sep 27, 2011 8:52 PM EDT up reply actions
They're good
I prefer Soundgarden.
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Kim Thayil is legit.
"Nothing's ever what it seems. And even if it is, ends justify means." -Matt Good
by KingBrody on Sep 27, 2011 9:05 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
nothing wrong with that
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Please beat Alistair Overeem. That is all.
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by Earl Montclair on Sep 27, 2011 9:10 PM EDT up reply actions
probably because your lookin california but feelin minnesota
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by some schmuck in texas on Sep 27, 2011 9:16 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I won't be outshined by some schmuck in texas ...
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he just got busted for DWI near my home last week
"Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something"...The Dread Pirate Roberts
yeah Warren County, Virginia
I said last week but it may have been two weeks ago. It had all the Rasslin fans here worked up.
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I wonder if White told him ahead of time
that he wanted to pin him against Kimbo. Surely, you don’t need 3 to 6 months for that. Two days minimum.
by MaximumWatermelon on Sep 27, 2011 7:11 PM EDT reply actions
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Remember all those folks that said WEC lightweights simply wouldn't be able to hang in the UFC? Yeah.......
by Charles Awad on Sep 27, 2011 7:13 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
Liars are funny
Just keeps on a diggin..
Remember all those folks that said WEC lightweights simply wouldn't be able to hang in the UFC? Yeah.......
Cue the you suck chants.
BTW: Kurt Angle is one of the greatest pro wrestlers eva! I remember watching wrestlemania 21 as a kid and his match with Shawn Michaels was the best.
by discoandherpes on Sep 27, 2011 7:18 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Correct...
What a loveable lunatic!
by Colin Paul Kowlessar on Sep 27, 2011 7:29 PM EDT up reply actions
Wrestlemania 21 was only 6 years ago
……aaaaand you just made me feel old. I remember watching Wrestlemania X and trying to ladder-match with my brother.
No sir, I don't like it.
The Olympic Team Trials are in April next year
And are being held in Iowa City, Iowa. Considering Angle has had zero world freestyle experience in over 10 years I think it’s pretty much a given if he were somehow able to get into the trials he would be wrecked in the first round. I mean Cael Sanderson is a more recent gold medalist who made the world team this year and placed 5th in the World Championships, and Sanderson is a much better wrestler than Angle.
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He’s not going to make it, but he’s going to get a huge number of eyes on him just for attempting. He’s the most well known wrestling Olympic gold medallist ever because of pro wrestling, and to be in the spotlight might make him seem relevant to some.
by Colin Paul Kowlessar on Sep 27, 2011 7:31 PM EDT up reply actions
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Dear Brock Lesnar,
Please beat Alistair Overeem. That is all.
Sincerely, Me
by Earl Montclair on Sep 27, 2011 7:38 PM EDT up reply actions
goddammit
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by Earl Montclair on Sep 27, 2011 7:38 PM EDT up reply actions
LOVE BREAKING BAD!
Gustavo Fring is my new idol
by CaptainKneebar on Sep 27, 2011 10:10 PM EDT up reply actions
man, it is the best show on tv , hands down
i cant wait to see what happens next week!
that's not Gus
RAYZISPS!
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by some schmuck in texas on Sep 28, 2011 9:54 AM EDT up reply actions
Lunacy
Kurt Angle may be a broke down lunatic with delusions of grandeur, but he would double leg Kimbo into oblivion. His wrestling credentials shit all over every other wrestler to have ever stepped in the cage thus far.
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Except Mark Schultz
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Also
Kevin Jackson has more Freestyle championships, but never won an NCAA title finishing as an All American in all the years he competed. Still very good though.
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Touche
I’d be mad at you if you didn’t have that pleasant English Accent.
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by Damon O. on Sep 27, 2011 8:29 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Would Karam Ibrahim count? Olympic gold, Gold at the Mediterranean Games, Silver at Worlds.
My name isn't Todd.
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Angle got Silver and Bronze at the World Cup, Kevin Jackson got Gold twice at the Pan Ams. Although … Ibrahim fought MMA in a ring, not a cage haha. I’ll still take Schultz. Only one UFC fight, which he won against Gary Goodridge. Outside of MMA and Wrestling I believe he’s a BJJ blackbelt but I’m not sure from who. He did learn some BJJ from Rickson Gracie, and spent a few years with Pedro Sauer whose been friends and training with Rickson Gracie and the direct Helio Gracie family since they were teenagers in Brazil.
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the tinkertoy browser at my office wasn’t letting me post today.
My home setup is even more obsolete at present, yet I bet this actually posts.
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by some schmuck in texas on Sep 27, 2011 7:56 PM EDT reply actions 5 recs
mods, plz delete if you think it's worth the trouble
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by some schmuck in texas on Sep 27, 2011 7:57 PM EDT up reply actions
Don't do it Barton
:p - orcus
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I say that is a keeper
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by Earl Montclair on Sep 27, 2011 8:28 PM EDT up reply actions
King Muhammed LOOLOLOLOL
you guys….
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Lets Tinkertoy browser!
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Let
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Let's TINKERTOY BROWSER!
working marginally better today, apparently.
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by some schmuck in texas on Sep 28, 2011 9:50 AM EDT up reply actions
I'll take "Things that never happened" for $800, please Alex.
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I'll take "Ape Tits" for $1000
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by duck on Sep 27, 2011 8:48 PM EDT up reply actions 4 recs
"If you can't whip out answers like that, that man (Alex Trebeck) is liable to, during a commercial break, punch your fuckin' mouth loose!"
(from “Testing for Jeopardy”- Jerky Boys)
I actually feel bad for Angle at this point.
He just needs to get help.
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To be honest
I have yet to hear a good argument against tag teams in UFC.
Angle and Brock as UFC Intercontinental Tag Team Champions = 2.5 million PPV buys as a base line.
.....
You can find video online of tag team mma
It’s terrible
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Looks like he wants to rape someone in that pic.
by Tats16 on Sep 27, 2011 9:20 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Guy is just getting sad after recent arrests and statements
Had he transitioned right into MMA, he would have been a wrecking ball at 205 or HW, but at his age and given his neck, he never gets cleared anywhere that sanctioning has a decent body
Sooooooooo Texas then.
Dear Brock Lesnar,
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Sincerely, Me
by Earl Montclair on Sep 28, 2011 1:31 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Make me proud Texas.
If my Olympic Hero wants to fight, let him fight.
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by black dragon on Sep 28, 2011 9:26 AM EDT up reply actions
Kurt would of done good in the UFC
if he did not fuck up his body so much doing wrestling for so many years. Simple he would of done UFC if the money was there when he finished with wrestling. Same story with Tom Big Cat Erikson but the money was just not there an the risk was to high. Being a entertianing guy he went with work wrestling. Yet i agree this story is so full of shit lol
by Mark Colemans Takedown coach on Sep 28, 2011 1:50 AM EDT reply actions
is Kurt aware he is F'in 42?
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I would pay to watch Kurt Angle vs The Green Ranger
I am willing to test myself against the toughest fighters in the world, in front of hundreds of thousands or even millions of fans, over and over again. Sometimes I win, sometimes I lose, but I always come to fight. I've been doing this for the past fourteen years, and I have at least a few more strong years left in me. What have you done in the past fourteen years other than act like a moron on this forum and hang on Anderson's nuts? - Dan Henderson.
by elmojo on Sep 28, 2011 2:25 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Shut up and take my money
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by black dragon on Sep 28, 2011 9:27 AM EDT up reply actions
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