Kurt Engle - American wrestler, showman. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2017. Kurt is the 1995 freestyle wrestling world champion and 1996 Olympic gold medalist. Filmed as an actor in a large number of wrestling films and TV shows WWE, as well as in a few feature films.
Biography
The man’s full name is Kurt Stephen Engle. The wrestler is 183 centimeters tall and weighs 105 kilograms.
Kurt was born 12/12/1968 in Moon Township in Pennsylvania. Showman's childhood passed in Pittsburgh. At college, Engle was fond of sports, especially freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling. Even then, the guy won many sports awards.
Kurt participated in the World Freestyle Wrestling Championship in 1995 and won. In 1996, Engle went to the Olympics and won a gold medal there.
Since 2017, Kurt's portrait has been hanging in the WWE Competition Hall of Fame.
WWE Company (World Wrestling Entertainment)
Kurt has been working for WWE since 1998. Then the wrestler signed a contract with them for eight years. In the framework of these competitions, Kurt fought with wrestlers such as Brian Christopher, Sean Stesiak, Tazz.
WWE is not an ordinary sports event: since the 1980s, WWE programs have been classified as sports entertainment. WWE company conducts public sports events, produces movies, clothes, music, computer video games dedicated to wrestling. Special stories are being developed for the WWE television show.
So, according to one of the plot of the show, Jason Jordan learns that he is the son of Kurt Angle, born as a result of his relationship with one of the girls during his college years. This made it possible to explain Jordan's appointment to the Raw team to fight other wrestlers.
In the show, Kurt often calls himself “the hero of America” because of his victory at the Olympics. The showman considers his best qualities as determination, work for results and intelligence.
Engle is considered WWF European and Intercontinental Champion until 2000. In 2000, in the triple-threat competition with Chris Benoit and Chris Jericho, Kurt lost his league title.
Leaving the Federation and Returning to WWE
Wrestling is a rather cruel and traumatic sport. Kurt won championship belts year after year, was injured, lost the championship, and then returned and won again.
In July 2005, after another defeat, Kurt Engle heard that the public was chanting “You suck!” This greatly offended Kurt, he appealed to the public, and then completely decided to leave the WWE competitions and WWF federation.
In January 2017, Kurt was included in the WWE Hall of Fame. Angle returned to the company as Raw's new general manager.
In October 2017, the wrestler Roman Raines was unable to perform on the show due to his illness, and Kurt replaced him in the ring as part of the Shield team.
Films
Kurt Engle is not only a wrestler and showman, but also a real actor. He starred not only in WWE wrestling films, but also in the most ordinary feature films.
Since 1993, Kurt has regularly appeared on the WWE Raw series, WWE SmackDown. As himself, he played roles in WWF films “Armageddon”, “There Is No Way Out”, “King of the Ring”, “Full Load”, “Invasion”, “Unforgiven” and many others.
Since 2004, the wrestler appears in the sports projects of TNA and ECW.
In 2009, Engle played the role of Manfield in the drama directed by Bruce Kohler "The Last Game". In the same year, the actor starred in the short film directed by Steve Sanders “Chains”.
Drama Warrior
In 2011, Kurt starred in the film Director Greg O'Connor's Warrior. This film is a sports drama about mixed martial arts. Kurt played a supporting role in the film, played a character named Koba. Koba is an invincible Russian warrior with whom the main character will fight in the final of the picture.
The main roles in the film were played by actors Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton, Nick Nolte, Frank Grillo, Jennifer Morrison and others. The film really liked both critics and viewers. The film was nominated for Academy Award, Sputnik, Critics' Choice Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, MTV Award. At the box office, the Warrior raised just over $ 23 million.