Kurt Angle

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Trivia

• While Kurt Angle won an Olympic gold medal with a badly injured neck, his neck was not broken. In WWE, Angle normally exaggerates the severity his injury, claming that he won his medal with "a broken freakin' neck!" According to the official rule book of the Olympic Games committee, no competitor will be authorized to participate in an event if seriously injured, indicating that Angle was not seriously enough injured to warrant exclusion from the event.
• Angle claimed in an interview that, following the death of his father, he regarded his wrestling coach as a paternal figure.
• Angle's older brother Eric has appeared with WWE on occasion, normally in order to impersonate Angle. Eric posed as Kurt during his WWF World Heavyweight Championship title defence against The Undertaker at the 2000 Survivor Series, enabling Angle to roll-up his confused opponent, and switched places with Kurt during a title defence against Brock Lesnar on SmackDown! in 2003.
• Angle suffered a serious concussion at the outset of the triple threat WWF World Heavyweight Championship title match at SummerSlam 2000 when Triple H attempted to Pedigree through a table which broke before he could execute the move. Angle was assisted backstage, but returned later in the match following a vignette in which Stephanie McMahon exhorted him to "help Hunter". Angle returned to the ring, but, rather than helping HHH, attempted to win the title for himself. Thanks to Angle's return, HHH's momentum was broken, and defending champion The Rock was able to pin HHH and retain his title.
• Kurt Angle has begun wearing a black mouthguard in response to some lost teeth in a match with John Cena. They help give him a darker look for his heel persona.