Kurt Angle Net Worth 2024, Lifestyle, Wrestling and Acting Career

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Kurt Steven Angle is an American podcast host and retired professional wrestler. In the 1996 Olympic Games, he won a gold medal in freestyle wrestling. He is famous because of his WWE and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling and WWE fights.

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Kurt Angle Net Worth 2024

Kurt Angle, a former heavyweight professional wrestler, is worth $5 million. Kurt Angle's most well-known competitions were in TNA and the WWE. In addition, he was the 1996 Olympic gold medalist in freestyle wrestling from Atlanta.

Angle is known as one of the best professional wrestlers of all time. He has won more than 20 titles, 13 of which are world championships. He also receives income from TV shows, movies, PPV, media, public appearances, WWE games, and other products.

Early Life

In 1968, he was born in the residential area of Mount Lebanon Township in Pennsylvania. His father, David Angle, was a crane operator. When Angle was sixteen years old, his father died in a construction accident. His mother, Jackie Angle, died because of cancer in 2015.

Angle gave credit to his father for both his professional and personal life. In an interview, Angle said he looked up to his wrestling instructor, David Schultz, as a father figure when his father passed away.

In January 1996, when Schultz was training Angle, he was killed by John Eleuthere du Pont. John Eleuthere du Pont was the team sponsor of Schultz's Olympic trainees. Kurt Angle sister died in 2003, and he has four older brothers.

Angle originates from German, Italian, English, and Irish people. At seven years old, he started wrestling professionally. Angle attended Mt. Lebanon High School as a teenager and participated in the school’s football and wrestling teams.

After that, he changed schools and joined the freshman wrestling team at Canon-McMillan High, where he was unbeaten. In 1987, as a senior, he took home the Pennsylvania State Wrestling Championship.

Wrestling Career

Angle went to Clarion University of Pennsylvania after graduating from high school, where he went on to win two NCAA Division I championships and three NCAA Division I All-American titles. After graduation, he competed in the 1995 FILA World Wrestling Championships.

Kurt angle in the Olympics of 1996 he won a gold medal in freestyle wrestling. After seeing the WWF's "Monday Night Raw" in 1998, Angle, who had been hesitant about professional wrestling at first, became interested in it.

He quickly agreed to a five-year contract with the WWE and made his Power Pro Wrestling debut. At Survivor Series, Angle made his debut in the WWF ring and won against Shawn Stasiak. His 2000 rookie year was among the best in wrestling history as he won the WWF Championship and the King of the Ring tournament.

Angle won the World Heavyweight Championship, the WCW Championship, and the WWF/WWE Championship four times in his eighteen-year tenure in the WWF and WWE. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2017. He became the tenth Triple Crown champion in WWE history.

Angle joined TNA after quitting WWE in 2006, where he won the World Heavyweight Championship for the first time and successfully defended it six times. In addition, he won King of the Mountain twice and became the second TNA Triple Crown winner.

Angle wrestled for the Inoki Genome Federation and New Japan Pro-Wrestling, where he won the 2007 IWGP Heavyweight Championship. In 2013, he was inducted into the TNA Hall of Fame. This induction made him the second wrestler to be honored in both the WWE and TNA Hall of Fame.

Acting Career

Angle has chosen to pursue a career in acting in addition to wrestling. He has worked in several movies, which include

• Chains
• End Game
• Dylan Dog: Dead of Night
• River of Darkness
• Warrior
• Death from Above
• Pain & Gain
• Pro Wrestlers vs Zombies
• The Last Witch Hunter

He also worked in TV shows which include

• The Weakest Link
• Pros vs. Joes
• Criss Angel Mindfreak
• Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
• Duck Dynasty

Personal Life

Angle got married to professional wrestler Karen Smedley, a valet, in 1998. After two kids, the couple filed for divorce in 2008. Angle then got married to the actress Giovanna Yannotti, and the two of them have four kids together. A boy was adopted from Bulgaria as Kurt angle son.

A book named as It's True It's True, written by Angle, was published on September 18, 2001. In 2008, Angle was chosen to appear on the cover of second album of metal band Emmure, The Respect Issue. He appears on the record's front and back covers in addition to the inlay.

Angle and Conrad Thompson started a podcast together in 2021, The Kurt Angle Show. In January 2024, The Kurt Angle Show came to an end.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q. When did the Kurt angle staring meme go viral?

Ans: At the end of 2023, a brief 33-second video of Kurt Angle went viral on social media. At the end of the video, he pauses and looks down the lens toward the end of the film for a funny effect, and then he asks the guy controlling the camera if "we are done now."

Q. Why is Kurt Angle deaf in one ear?

Ans: The disease of the cauliflower ear is the reason he has been deaf in one ear.

Q. Kurt Angle was a wrestler of what kind?

Ans: Kurt Angle was a freestyle wrestler.