On a recent edition of his “The Kurt Angle Show” podcast, WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle recalled his decision to pursue wrestling as his profession and how it came about.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On how he first got into wrestling: “My brother Mark, he got [into] a lot of trouble as a kid, and so the wrestling coach told him one day ‘why don’t you take your aggressions out on the wrestling mat?’ So the wrestling coach got him to join the wrestling team, and he kind of was the guy who we looked up to in our family. So we all followed him, what he did, and we ended up starting the wrestling when we were younger kids.”
On when he started to get more serious about the sport: “The light bulb didn’t go off in my head until high school. A tragedy had to occur for that to happen, my dad was killed in a construction accident when I entered high school, and losing him at a young age like that was really tough. He was our biggest supporter. Sports were important with my dad, he really wanted us to all be involved in sports all year round and he never missed any of our sporting events. He always showed up and I loved him for that, so I dedicated my athletic career to my father.”
