Drugs?

I haven't been looking around sites lately.

Hopefully when he's fully recovered he can work some indies. Who wouldn't want to see Angle/Low Ki, Angle/Danielson, or Angle/Joe?

I would like to see Angle in TNA or Ring of Honor. WWE claim he is injured, he was accused of sexual harrassment before and it makes me wonder with his "jump to ECW"?

I should point out Randy Orton & Big Show was accused at the same time and wth woman left the WWE. Big Show took most of the blame, but Angle was involved.

Angle was needing a really long vacation 3 years ago. His body is completely shot and he was suspended over a really bad addiction to painkillers. He's been one stiff bump away from being done for good for a while now. They had to fire him to give him some time off because he wouldn't have taken it on his own and if he kept going I wouldn't have been surprised if he died by the end of the year.

Kurt Angle says he's done with wrestling _ for now

The Associated Press


PITTSBURGH - Former Olympic heavyweight wrestling champion Kurt Angle says is he leaving entertainment wrestling, even though he is not formally announcing his retirement.

Angle said he decided to stop wrestling for World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. after he injured his groin, tore an abdominal muscle and injured a hamstring during an Aug. 13 event in White Plains, N.Y.

The 37-year-old Angle, a former high school wrestling and football star at Mount Lebanon High School in the Pittsburgh area, has been a wrestler/entertainer for seven years for WWE. According to the company's Web site, Angle received an early release from his contract after he no longer wanted to take pain medication to compete.

Angle said he needs time to heal before he begins to think about wrestling again and the WWE told him he can return when he wants.


A two-time NCAA Division I wrestling champion at Clarion University in western Pennsylvania, Angle won the 220-pound championship at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, defeating Iran's Abbas Jadidi for the gold medal despite competing with a badly injured neck.

Angle dropped to his knees on the mat and openly wept after being awarded the decision by the mat officials after he and Jadidi wrestled to a 1-1 draw during the eight-minute match.

After winning the gold medal, Angle left amateur wrestling and became a Pittsburgh TV sportscaster for a brief period, then became an entertainment wrestler in 1998.

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I seriously doubt, if not flat-out don't believe, that he "decided to quit"

He didn't quit. He wanted to go on but Vince wouldn't let him.

exactly. I wasn't kidding when I said I wouldn't have been surprised if Angle had died by years end had he not gotten fired. I honestly believe Angle would've kept going on until he was dead. But I can't even begin to imagine the media shit-storm WWE would receive if Angle died just 10 years after he won the medal. That'd be worse than Eddie and Owen combined (not saying Angle himself is more important than them, I'm only talking about press coverage). WWE firing him was, sad to say, the best thing for all involved

Well there were those "death watch" rumors about Angle right after Eddie passed. Maybe they were true afterall :(

I'd say Kurt's been on watch for a year or so