Olympic Gold Medalist Kurt Angle talks about UFC Recruitment

[Oldman1]

Neck injuries prevented him from considering MMA after a 5 year WWF/E stint at that time (2003).

Dana offered Kurt two separate deals at two separate times but Kurt backed out. Would've fought both LHW and HW. He would've just made more money in Rasslin'.

First got offered to fight in the UFC in 1996 -10 fights for 150,000 USD or 15k per fight LOL.

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Loves his steroids. Would be at home with randy and tito juicing up.

 

[MileHigher]

Yoel/dc started mma before 30. And whotf is lindland...Sara McCann? Lol you must be delusional if you think some stiff broken neck like Kurt angle would be a good fighter

“Who the fuck is Linland?” Lol yeah, you probably shouldn’t be commenting on this topic.

 

[TheChance]

His offers came in 1996 and again in 2003 unless I seriously misunderstood. Also, if guys like gleisson Tibau (spelling?) can beat drug testing for years on end, I have full faith in a former Olympian to cheat carefully.

Wasn't talking about steroids

 

[orca]

he goes live sometimes on his fb. page . he answered theres more money in pro wrestling ..

 

[Dirge]

Yoel/dc started mma before 30. And whotf is lindland...Sara McCann? Lol you must be delusional if you think some stiff broken neck like Kurt angle would be a good fighter

MMA noobs ^^^^^

Lindland btw is the guy Fedor had to cheat against to beat....

 

[Y2Khaos]

MMA noobs ^^^^^

Lindland btw is the guy Fedor had to cheat against to beat....

He also has a siver metal in greco from the 2000 olympics and is the current head coach of the US Olympic greco roman wrestling team.

 

[puppybird]

Can you imagine Kurt throwing a real punch?

He was an Olympic gold medalist, throwing a punch isn’t rocket science mate

 

[Dirge]

He also has a siver metal in greco from the 2000 olympics and is the current head coach of the US Olympic greco roman wrestling team.

Yep that too.

 

[TheSpider]

Kurt Angle would have been the GOAT MMA wrestler and dominated MMA

 

[gspieler]

Tito won 5 UFC LHW title fights, with his strongest are being his juco-tier wrestling. Assuming he has any semblance of a chin, Kurt would've dominated any version of Tito with six months of mma training.

 

[brownsmith76]

Kurt Angle won a gold medal and has already defeated Randy Couture in amateur wrestling.

Kurt Angle would have been UFC champion.

I don't know why some of you sherdoggers are against the idea.

It's insane for the UFC to be so cheap as to offer only $15,000 per fight. They are greedy.

 

[Huligani]

For those who don't know, this is an entry level MMA fighter making Angle helpless to a kimura and Angle is furious afterwards.

 

[Motleysubs]

Give me some names of non heavy weight wrestler who got into the game late and did well

I know he fought at HW, but Randy Couture had a good run at lhw

 

[ZOD66]

YOU SUCK. YOU SUCK. YOU SUCK

 

[Undefeated Undisputed]

2000s ufc fighters would have smoked him easily.

what, is kurt not allowed to throw punches or something, just because he is a good wrestler? You know he can learn striking and BJJ too right? Might wanna look up guys like Daniel Cormier

 

[Jorge Luis Borges]

Give me some names of non heavy weight wrestler who got into the game late and did well

Romero.

 

[Ancient Warrior]

MMA noobs ^^^^^

Lindland btw is the guy Fedor had to cheat against to beat....

Oh please.

Lindland grabbed the rope too.

 

[tequilaboy]

Angle vs Tito.
Book it Dana!

Tito fought with a broken skull so Tito > Kurt

 

[Dirge]

Oh please.

Lindland grabbed the rope too.

Sure,,, when exactly? Fedor grabbed the rope to stuff Lindland's takedown. You really think Lindland needed to stuff a takedown from Fedor? lol...

 

[campbecc]

I think he would have fought at MW, he is not that big

he won the gold in the 220 lb weight class