In the world of WWE wrestling, it is inseparable from wrestling, ground fighting and locking skills, and it is impossible not to mention a person, he is Kurt. Anger, because he is not only a WWE champion Grand Slam winner, but also a gold medalist in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Freestyle Wrestling Competition, the strength of the bar, he is known as the "wrestling machine", his life is full of legends.
Ange has always been surrounded by death at key moments in his life, he once struggled with drug abuse for pain relief, but later he drew strength from personal tragedy and woke up, and Ange, now 52, has resumed fitness, saying that he seems to be back in his 30s.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="77" > wrestling genius</h1>
Cote Anger was born on December 9, 1968 in the small town of Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania, to a family of six siblings, the youngest of whom he was. Ange's wrestling career began at the age of 7, he has a talent for wrestling and is good at wrestling since he was a child, winning several gold medals in elementary school, as if destined to be born for wrestling, and he is considered a wrestling genius.
Ange, who enjoys the feeling of championship and glory so much, recalls going to school with a wrestling gold medal as a child, he said: "I remember having a kid who grabbed the ribbon of my gold medal and then spun it at a very fast pace and threw it out, and as a result, my gold medal hit the wall and hit a big dent, and that was the last time I took it to elementary school. ”
In 1984, when Ange's father tragically lost his life in a construction accident, when he was only 16 years old, Anger wrote in his autobiography: "If I must point to a key turning point in my life, it is it. I grew up and overcame the fear of the day my father died, and I vowed that I would do everything I could to become an Olympic champion. ”
In 1988, Anger was awarded the FILA Junior World Free Wrestling Championship, when Ange won the EWL title and qualified for the NCAA with a score of 29-8-1, and he was named "Newcomer of the Year" by EWL.
Growing up, Anger attended the University of Clarion in Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1993 with a degree in education.
From 1988 to 1992, during his time at the University of Clarion, Anger became a prominent wrestler, having captained the 4th and 3rd year heavyweight Golden Eagles. After wearing the redshirt in the 1989 season, Anger finished 35-0-1, winning PSAC and EWL titles before moving into the NCAA and winning his first NCAA Class I title.
In 1991, Anger won the PSAC title, and despite his injury, he won the EWL title and finished second in the NCAA Division I Nationals with a staggering 26-2.
In 1992, after recovering to health, he won PSAC, EWL and his second NCAA Class I title with a 26-0 record. With an astonishing record of 116-10-2, Anger has won 2 NCAA titles, 3 National Championship titles, 4 EWL titles and three PSAC Wrestler of the Year titles.
In 1993, Anger left his coaching job to devote himself full-time to his childhood Olympic dreams.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="77" > second, Olympic wrestling champion</h1>
A year before entering the Olympics, Anger lost to Schultz and was injured at the U.S. Open, resulting in a neck fracture, so 5 minutes before each match, Anger would receive medication injections to relieve pain so that he could advance to the next round.
Ange became the World Freestyle Champion in 1995 with a weight of 220 pounds, and his gold medal at Atlanta in 1996 was even more impressive: two fractured vertebrae, two herniated discs, and four muscles pulled differently, and Later, Anger developed to the point of becoming addicted to painkillers.
Ange was a Pennsylvanian who was a member of the Fox Hunters club at the time. His coach was 1984 Olympic wrestling champion Dave Schultz, but his coach was later shot dead by John Dupont.
Fox Hunter
"Unfortunately, I hate to admit it, but if I wasn't a Fox Hunter, I probably wouldn't have won my gold medal, I probably wouldn't have known Dave Schultz and probably might not have fulfilled my dreams," Anger said. It's so bad because I have to thank John DuPont for his ability to keep me in wrestling full-time and win the 1995 world championship, the huge achievement of winning the 1996 Olympic gold medal, but he killed Dave Schultz.
The club will grow to where it is today, and it turns out to be really bad, but many of the wrestlers who come with it may not have to worry about money and can train and play well. ”
Schultz himself was an Olympic champion but murdered by crazy millionaire John Dupont, an incident documented in the 2014 Academy Award-nominated film Fox Hunter.
Anger remembers the 1996 Atlanta Olympics vividly, but he won't forget the deep pain of that moment. In the 100kg final, Anger and Iranian Abbas Jadidi tied 1-1 after regular season and overtime, with the final winner's verdict in the hands of the referee, who, after much deliberation, stood between the two wrestlers.
He held the wrists of the two men, ready to show the championship to the crowd at the Georgia World Convention Center, as well as to the athletes.
Anger clearly remembered that in his field of vision, Jaddidi's left arm was being raised. Anger said: "I thought I had lost. Iranians are also raising their arms. But in an instant, the referee raised Ange's right arm, and Ange finally became the winner, and Ange cried with joy!
Anger said: "I was very excited because I had suffered a heavy blow but in the end I was told I had won! It was a very strange experience, I didn't know what to deal with, it felt like my father was dead again, that was my sadness, and then, all of a sudden, you won! ”
Immediately after Ange's victory came to mind two men, he knelt down in prayer, first his father, David, who died in a construction accident when Ange was 16 years old, and secondly, 1984 Olympic wrestling champion Dave Schultz, whose coach was murdered by John Dupont six months before the Olympics.
Anger went on to become one of the most famous gold medalists at the 1996 Atlanta Games in the United States, winning the race despite being injured and winning the gold medal in heavyweight (90 – 100 kg) wrestling.
The match was actually Ange's last match, or the Olympic final, and he raised his arm at the last minute as a freestyle wrestler. "All I wanted to do was win world championships and Olympic gold medals, and I did. In terms of my career, it was the best moment of my life, and there was nothing better suited than it. Angie said sobbing. If I die tonight, I will be the happiest person in the world. ”
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="77" > third, WWE wrestling career</h1>
Anger joined WWF in 1998 and he signed a 10-year contract with WWF. He said, "Steven. Austin is the reason I got involved in this industry, in 1998, I fell in love with him, I wanted to be him, I wanted to be like him, I loved his character. When I decided to join WWE, my idea was to be another Austin. I was originally a nerd, an Olympic gold medalist, but then I became the opposite of my personality. The first time I actually wrestled with Austin made my dream come true, I didn't expect to wrestle with him so soon, but it was amazing and I really loved it. ”
Ange appeared on WWF TV after joining Power Pro Wrestling, where he won the PPW title on July 24.
Since it is to play wrestling, naturally inseparable from the ground fighting and locking skills, there are many people who are good at locking skills in WWE, but in the professional wrestling world, only Kurt has won the WWE championship and the Olympic wrestling champion. Anger alone.
Although Ange is only 178 centimeters tall and weighs 100 kilograms, he has no advantage in the monster-ridden wrestling world, but he can also carry more than 300 pounds of Mark. Henry came to a back fall, and his unique skill was his Anger Lock.
Anger lock
Ange Lock: It is the lock technique named after him, no matter who is locked by The Angle Lock, there is basically only one way to beg for forgiveness in pain.
Anger accelerated his career by winning multiple titles at the European Championships and the Intercontinental Championship. Anger became the first person to win both an Olympic gold medal and a WWF title after defeating Dwayne Johnson. Ange won the race on the SmackDown in the 20-man Royale, where he eliminated Mark Henry and became the world heavyweight champion.
Ange has acclaimed many titles and fames, having won six world titles (four as WWF/WWE champions, one WCW champion and one WWE world heavyweight champion), one American champion, one continental champion, one European champion, former hardcore champion and former WWE label team champion.
Ange retired from WWE in 2006 and joined another prominent wrestling organization, TNA. There, he won the title of TNA World Heavyweight Champion five times and was also the second candidate for the TNA Hall of Fame. He has always been a wrestler and has won the Triple Crown of WWE and TNA in heavyweight wrestling history.
In 2010, Wrestling Observer Newsletter named Anger the top ten wrestlers of the 2000s.
In March 2016, Anger was inducted into the International Sports Hall of Fame at the Arnold Sports Festival.
In 2017, Anger joined the WWE Hall of Fame.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="77" >4. Death and critical moments</h1>
Surrounded by death at critical moments throughout his life, Ange drew strength from personal tragedy, and Anger admitted that he never handled it the right way.
The day after his father's death, and a week after his grandmother's death, Anger won his first NCAA amateur wrestling championship. Later, his mother also died of cancer in 2015.
The day after his sister died of hero overdose in 2003, he competed in a 60-minute Ironman match against Brock Lesner, which Anger said: "It was one of the best games of my career".
Ange's brother David confessed guilt after killing his wife, Donna Ange, at home. Wiping away tears at pittsburgh City Court a month after a tragic family dispute, Anger approached his brother, waved to him, and hugged his late sister-in-law's family.
He also has his own demons, he struggles with substance abuse, his path to addiction began in the year of the 1996 Olympic victory in Atlanta, and during his time at WWE, he had problems with his neck that led to a rise in painkiller addiction, loss of control, and further led to problems such as morphine, alcoholism, and so on.
Eventually, after DWI's arrest in Texas in 2013, Anger underwent a rehabilitation checkup, his fourth drunk driving-related arrest in 6 years. Fortunately, though, he later sobered up, which extended his career and life.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="77" >5. Ange's training and diet</h1>
As a wrestler, Anger follows a very healthy and disciplined lifestyle, he adopts a proper and balanced diet, and also follows a strict exercise program. Anger says he has different goals in his life. From becoming an Olympic champion to becoming a professional wrestler. Now that he's retired from professional wrestling, his life goals mean staying healthy for him. He was a man with a family and now he wanted to stay healthy and watch his children grow up.
At the peak of his career, he exercised 10 hours a day, he had no rest days for a whole week, his morning workouts included a mile-long warm-up running session, he would choose the steepest hill in the area, then sprint up and down the hill for 200 yards, then bike for 40 minutes, then jump rope for 40 minutes, and then he would go into the sauna for a bath.
The afternoon workout is 4 hours, including wrestling training such as live wrestling, technical training, aerobics, core training and acclimatization training, which also includes two hours of physical fitness tests and strength training, which he says is how he prepares for the Olympics.
Anger believes that a balanced diet is key to maintaining health and fitness, and his breakfast is egg whites and low-sugar oatmeal, lunch is two chicken breasts and a large bowl of salad to increase fiber and protein intake. After lunch, he would drink a protein shake. Dinner was homemade steak and a large bowl of salad. For snacks, he prefers popcorn and protein shakes before going to bed.
Anger said: "People want everything to get a quick result. But that's the wrong attitude. A person needs to set a long-term goal. It would be unrealistic if you exercised for two weeks and then lost interest because their bodies didn't change. The effects on the body don't come up anytime soon, so you need to be consistent with the training to see results. ”
Ange now lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Jovana Janotti, as his second wife, while his former wife was Karen Smedley. He had two children with his first wife, and accompanied by his current wife, he had four children, one of whom was adopted.
Although Anger is 52 years old this year and he is returning to training, he looks healthier than any young wrestler, saying: "Age is a number and it's all in the mind. On some days you may feel like you're 85, on some days you may feel like you're only 25, but damn, it's great to be able to train hard again... It felt like I was only 30 years old! ”