[Centraal] Pro-Wrestling topic #9 Cena Unforgiven?

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Op zondag 24 september 2006 09:58 schreef kidkash19 het volgende:
Ashley = waste of space, als London/Kendrick iemand nodig hebben is het wel iemand die een interview kan geven, niet "ik raak al geblesseerd als ik van de bank af kom" Ashley

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Op zondag 24 september 2006 19:10 schreef The-Brahma-Bull het volgende:

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Hij heeft met Vince gepraat, hij wil zelfs al terugkomen bij Survivor Series en Royal Rumble. Het liefst zou die tegen Stone Cold willen maar hij heeft natuurlijk zware blessures. Als dat niet doorgaat wil hij graag tegen Big Show omdat ze ook vrienden zijn en natuurlijk omdat het terug in de tijd gaat naar Hulk tegen Andre

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Op maandag 25 september 2006 11:08 schreef kidkash19 het volgende:

Hij is zo geblesseerd dat zn lichaam niet eens meer KAN helen, de man moet stoppen en denken aan zn gezondheid.

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http://kurtanglewwe.com/letter.pdf

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To all my respective fans in WWE/ECW,

The letter you are about to read is not from WWE, nor from my agent, but from me- Kurt Angle…to my all fans.

This is my personal ‘Thank You’ straight from my heart, to all my fans for being here with me and providing me with the most honorable privilege to perform and entertain for you. Thank you for tuning into your TVs weekly, for visiting me at hundreds of house show chanting ‘You Suck’ (I love that phrase), to every single good, bad or indifferent e-mail I’ve received over the past 6 years and continue to receive daily. Thank you for being there and making my life truly blessed.

When I came to WWE, many fans had doubts that an Olympic Gold Medalist in Amateur Wrestling could turn and master the art of Sports Entertainment. To my humble surprise, God graciously granted me the gift to make this exciting transition in my life. Coming into the WWE, I had one goal in mind...to be the VERY BEST! Many say I am; some may say I'm not. But I want you to know with over six solid years of non-stop wrestling action under my belt from all the shows to the world tours...I treated every single match as if it were my last!

I’ve never known a time in my life from training, competition or entertainment that I have not tried to give over 100%. I honestly do not know of any other way to wrestle or perform, and I have always wanted to give YOU, the fans, what I would expect to see.

From the entertainment standpoint, (good guy or bad guy), it’s been truly exciting, but I know in my heart that I have not reached my peak. Critics have compared me to very honorable wrestlers like Rick Flair, Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels and the Undertaker, all of whom I value and truly respect. But there is one BIG difference between us. I am by far the most aggressive and intense athlete of all on the mat. When I step into the ring, I treat it as real, it feels real and then I play it like a real shoot fight.

As an amateur wrestler for 23 years and a pro for 6, unfortunately over the past 4 years I have suffered many injuries. I broke my neck twice and had two major neck surgeries. I’ve fractured my ribs, hip, tailbone, fingers and toes while also tearing almost every major muscle at least one time or another. Injuries have always been a natural part of the business and my life, but where I have failed is not taking the time off to recover. When I’m off the mental stress, sitting back becomes worse than the physical pain. Something tells my inner soul to go back regardless of the condition. The funny thing is, this obsession is what the industry loves, but this obsession can also be my
destruction.

Week after week, day after day, 250 days a year on the road can be a living hell for anyone, especially when you’re in daily pain for months on end. It was at home when I began to realize how severe the problems were- when a simple task like taking out the garbage is like a full workout and I needed Motrin in order to get up and do it.

It’s time to rest! After 6 long years, I looked into my wife’s eyes and finally saw that she, too, was severely stressed and worn out due to my livelihood that she had to endure. My 3-year old daughter Kyra basically became my nurse, thinking she had to put ice packs or heating pads on my neck, back and legs because she could see the pain her daddy was in.

At this point, something happened that made me realize that wrestling wasn't the most important thing in my life. I sat down with my wife Karen, who had tears in her eyes. I could see in her face how concerned she was for me. She said,

“I love you. I didn't marry you because you were a WWE Superstar. I married you before you ever joined them. Kurt, I’m so worried that if you continue going at this pace, something bad is really going to happen and I don't want Kyra and Kody (our unborn son) to grow up without their father.”

I did take this all to heart, but then, as usual, a couple of days later, I went back on the road, wanting to electrify my new ECW fans.

My last event was at the Westchester Arena in White Plains, New York. The show was sold out. The main event was me against RVD. I had a great match against RVD as the fans were cheering for both of us. The more we wrestled (Rob and I wrestle more of a realistic shoot style), the more I wanted to give them. Ten minutes into the match, I severely pulled my groin. Most wrestlers would have quit right on the spot. But the fans were chanting louder and louder "THIS MATCH RULES!" continuously, so I kept going. Compensating for my groin injury, I pulled my lower abdominal muscle off my pelvic bone. Now, I was in trouble, but I looked up at the fans and they were screaming
louder than ever.

So Rob and I started into our finish, false finish after false finish, back and forth. But the one thing the fans noticed is that I was doing half of the match on one leg. That made it feel even more real for the fans. I can only thank God and the fans for keeping me going, as I was in so much pain. And at the end of the match, I had the opportunity to beat RVD. I set him up for the Angle Slam and Rob countered with a flying DDT. My hamstring blew out. The fans cheered and I could not move in the ring. As the agonizing pain grew greater, I could only look around. Every fan was on their feet giving me a standing ovation. And this was at a house show, not a PPV. My only regret was that I
could not stand up and thank them all for it.

To the ones who love me, the ones who hated me and even the ones who loved to hate me- You were and are my inspiration. God was and is my strength and so is my family—my Mom, sister and brothers, my father (God rest his soul), my Manager Dave Hawk and most especially, my wife Karen, who went through hell during my career. She has never given up on me.

Fans, thank you all for the memories. It was quite a ride. I would not trade any of it for the world. As I sit here a bit teary eyed, I do want all of you to know, I will be fine. I will finally get to spend some real quality time with my family… time that is much, much overdue. My plan and goal is to become stronger mentally, physically and spiritually. I, Kurt Angle, will be back! That’s a promise. And that’s DAMN TRUE!

Vince, if you happen to read this, I want to again say thank you from the bottom of my heart. You are a great man! When we get together, the next cup of coffee is on me. ; )

God Bless,

Kurt Angle

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Op maandag 25 september 2006 11:50 schreef kidkash19 het volgende:
De stijl in TNA is toch wat "stiffer" dan WWE, vooral als hij tegen Joe gaat die er om bekend staat stiff te werken, denk dan vooral ook aan suplexes in allerlei variaties.

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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04221/358416.stm


Eight summers ago, Angle brought home wrestling gold

To say that his life has been lived on the go ever since would be an understatement (and painfully so).

Sunday, August 08, 2004
By Chico Harlan, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Look at my face," Kurt Angle says. This, he figures, is the sacrifice -- one of many. His head is bald, famous and abused, a cranial cutting board. "It looks like I've aged 15 years in the last five."

He points to a fleshy scar running past his brow. That's where Stone Cold Steve Austin stuck him once with a pointed razor, a prop for the bloodthirsty, and jerked the blade forward. Angle geysered blood that day. Another day, in another pro wrestling match, he smacked a concrete floor with a thud -- followed by church silence -- when a table, designed to break his fall, collapsed just as he landed on it. Angle couldn't move for 15 seconds. He needed days to regain his memory and lose the headaches. He continued with the match.
Angle can no longer hear with his left ear, drained of fluid 80 times. He has nerve damage in his face. He's had six knee surgeries and a broken neck. He's dislocated his shoulder and ripped ligaments in his ankle. In every way, he has followed the vagaries of an intractable desire -- it's lifted him up and broken him down, sometimes all at once.
The achievements, for Angle, are so elating: an Olympic gold medal in 1996 as an amateur wrestler, now a million-dollar income as a pro wrestling superstar. The anguish is so acute: days in hospitals, moments when he hears his wife worry he'll be in a wheelchair a decade from now. But this is a cosmic-size genetic experiment -- we've found a man whose interface lacks a stop button -- so Kurt Angle nods, takes the pain with the elation and keeps going harder than ever, never stopping ... never stopping ... never stopping.
The Kurt Angle of today is the natural progeny of a realized goal, an Olympic dream that required years of relentless, exhausting work. Angle trained maniacally, eight or nine hours every day, to wrestle in the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. When he defeated Iran's Abbas Jadidi, the culmination of a dream he'd kept since age 5, Angle fell to the ground, weakened by tears and joy. But an Olympian's life journey doesn't end when an athlete steps from the podium, medal around neck; no, quite the opposite. That's just when the journey begins. The desire to work, to achieve, still festers in present tense. And suddenly, that desire is divorced from its lifelong goal.

It's been eight years now since Atlanta, and Angle still pours an Olympian's effort into everything he does. That's why Pittsburgh's most famous Olympic champion is now known internationally as one of the top World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) superstars. It's a profession tailored perfectly for Angle's needs. He can still sweat, he can still succeed. He can still sacrifice.

The sacrifices are worth it. Many mornings, Angle still pinches himself -- his dream, the gold medal, is resting by his desk downstairs. So are replicas of two WWE title belts.
The sacrifices are not worth it. Many mornings, Angle, 35, struggles to rise from bed.
"When I was trying for the Olympics," Angle remembers, "I'd train so ferociously that some days I'd make myself sick. I did things I knew nobody else would do. Once I got to the point where I wanted to quit, that's when the real training started."
He'd squat 400-odd pounds 28 times ... after squatting 315 pounds 44 times and 225 pounds 73 times and 135 pounds 149 times ... after running six miles ... after running dozens of wind sprints while carrying his training partner over his back ... after charging up a hill, with added resistance, for 2 1/2 minutes.
He did this every day, for every muscle set in his body. He consumed 1,000 calories for breakfast. He set an alarm to eat meals during the night. He punched himself in the head when he thought of quitting, when his body screamed of fatigue. No, he'd mutter. Nothing could stop him. "I kept a training log at home," Angle says, "and sometimes I go back and look at it and I'm just like, how did I do this? I think it probably contributed to how I feel now. When you train like that, some people think it keeps you young. But you're actually breaking your body down."

For what? At what cost? Every time Angle thought about the sacrifices, he thought more about his father, a man whose blood pumped with the same determination, a man who transferred toughness to his son not so much at the time of his boy's birth, but at the time of his own death. In 1985, David Angle, 55, fell from a construction site and landed on his head. The drop broke both of his shoulders and cracked his skull in three places. He then walked to the hospital with the injuries that would kill him.

Angle had his first varsity football game at Mt. Lebanon a day later. Lord knows how many people told him not to play, but they didn't know. Pain, in whatever capacity -- even grief -- could become not just something to overcome, but something to work with. Angle stuck his arms around that belief and finished the game with 16 solo tackles, two touchdowns and an interception -- the best game he'd ever play. Nothing could stop him.
After graduating college at Clarion, Angle poured a young life of experiences into one outlet: the Olympics. The Games consumed his life, all of it, every drop, life itself was a sacrifice. But five months before Atlanta, Angle cracked two vertebrae and pulled four muscles in his neck. Two disks poked into his spinal cord, and the pain hurled violent tremors throughout his body. One look, and doctors saw the endpoint for Angle's Olympic dreams. They brought him into an office and explained he needed six months to rest, no wrestling. He would risk paralysis by continuing. Angle ignored the warnings, found a painkiller called mepivacaine and kept on wrestling with more resoluteness than anybody else on the planet. Nothing could stop him.

"He never saw limits," manager and bodybuilder David Hawk says. "That's what made him successful. His pain tolerance is incredible. Not only can he live with pain, he can come out and smile and act like nothing's wrong. Once you can do that, you can do almost anything."

Pain joined Angle in so many successes, its meaning slowing twisted from a warning to a reassurance.
Here is pain.
Here is success.
Here is Kurt Angle, following both paths and hoping they run parallel.
Here is where it leads -- to a sofa in Angle's spacious Coraopolis estate, where Angle rests on an off day. He can use a rest. In mid-July, he spent two weeks in Japan. Days later, back in Pittsburgh, Angle, having whirled around the planet on a WWE tour this summer, needed a minute to recall where he'd last been.
Pro wrestling keeps Angle away from his family -- his wife, Karen, and his 20-month-old daughter, Kyra -- at least four days per week. His wrestling contract makes the life possible. His injuries make the life frightening.
"I don't think what he's doing to himself is worth it," Karen says.
Angle, for one, enjoys so much about his life. His playful daughter has softened his heart and improved his marriage. He has a pool in the backyard and a BMW in the driveway. His Herculean build -- "He's 6-foot, 240-pounds with a neck the size of a waist," WWE wrestler Edge says -- draws eternal attention. When Angle goes out for lunch at a restaurant just minutes from his house, he smiles and signs autographs for everybody who stops by his table.
After the Olympics, the spotlight offered a quick flicker, but Angle didn't want it to stop. He appeared on TV with Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien. His schedule choked with speaking engagements -- some days, Angle would make a half-dozen stops at schools across Pittsburgh. In four days after winning the gold medal, he slept one hour.
"I hate to say it," Angle says, "but I really do love the spotlight. I didn't want it to let up."
For a Pay-Per-View event Aug. 15 in Toronto, Angle will return from his latest neck injury, which has kept him from wrestling (but not traveling) most of the year. Someday, he'll likely need two of his vertebrae fused together. Such a procedure would end his wrestling career, but Angle hopes to continue at least another three years without surgery.
Though he's already one of the WWE's most recognizable stars, Angle believes that three more years in the ring will allow his wrestling persona to grow into a pop culture force, similar to that of The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin. Privately, Angle's engaging and friendly, but his wrestling character is a pretentious bad guy who preaches about his own superiority. In the wrestling domain, where heroes become anti-heroes, Angle's gold medal acts as a badge for his character's ego. Fans hate him, and that alone means popularity.
The character is WWE head Vince McMahon's brainchild, and it required some discomfort -- particularly for Angle's wife and mother, who struggled to accept Angle as a man whose entrance into every arena draws a cascade of boos and taunts. It required some discomfort for Angle, too. At least initially. In 1996, McMahon offered Angle a lavish contract to join the WWE. Angle brought the offer to his agent, Ralph Cindrich, who promptly ripped it up.
Friends in the small community of amateur wrestling hoped Angle could become a vanguard for the sport. Angle, like Cindrich, simply wondered if a foray into pro wrestling would damage his image. Two years later, after a failed stint as a local sports broadcaster, Angle reconsidered. He tried out, this time with a much smaller contract, and learned the pro wrestling technique like a speedreader.
"What I didn't realize at the time, pro wrestling is not the next level to amateur wrestling," Angle says. "It's just a totally different career path. That's all it is. I'm sorry, but put Triple H in the ring with me for two minutes and he'll get eaten alive."
At times, Angle's toughness breeds his agony. When WWE officials sense Angle is struggling with injuries, they've given up asking him if he's OK. He always says yes. Instead, they call his wife, Karen.
The injuries rush at him mercilessly. One night in Nashville, Angle, awakened by his ringing cell phone, jumped from his bed and collided with a hotel room bureau. He needed stitches in his forearm once the bleeding subsided.
When healthy, Angle travels 240 days a year, a blaze of different hotels and different cities. His neck provides constant worry. So do three more years in a business where injuries are practically mandatory.
"The only time I'm 100 percent is right before a match, with the adrenaline and everything," Angle says. "But after that, I'm right back down to the bottom again. It sucks, because if I want to play with Kyra" -- as Angle talks, his daughter plays on the living room floor -- "sometimes I just can't do it."
His wife, sitting beside him, continues. "If he gets to the point where he really can't play with her, that will be it. No matter what you have in your house, no matter how good your life is, you can't give that up. If that's what happens, that's when I'll put my foot down and make him stop."
She glances at her husband. Pain converges with gain, and this is where they lead -- one road, traveled wearily.
Angle smiles, driven by instinct. This is the inevitable answer. "I'll never stop," he says.

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Op maandag 25 september 2006 14:31 schreef kidkash19 het volgende:
een Main Eventer??....KANE??!!! op dit moment niet en de IC-Title is niet bedoeld voor Main eventers die is juist bedoeld voor mensen als Nitro, Benjamin, Hardy, Carlito en Masters

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Kurt Angle
"Being with TNA feels like I have finally found my home. I had fun in WWE at certain times, but I was never really happy. Now being part of TNA, I know I have a purpose. I feel like I am part of history, part of a company that is now only on the rise--not only going to be the number one watched wrestling show in the world within a short period of time--but TNA gives me an opprotunity to spread my wings. The company has no limits to where it can go. The sky is the limit and the main reason is because they brought the 'real' back into wrestling and that is a perfect fit for the greatest wrestler in USA Olympic history. I have room to grow here and to help TNA grow. Working for these caring and very giving employers of TNA makes me feel like I have a purpose and that the sky is the limit. I don't feel trapped or held back like I did the first six years in my tenure with the other company. They held me back. Now, our wonderful audience will see the real Kurt Angle doing what I love to do--real wreslting--and that's what puts a smile on my face each time I come to work. I even smile when I think about it. TNA will be the most watched television show on cable television. It's only a matter of time. Now, I get the opportunity and privilege of being part of it. Thank you TNA for saving my career, my life and my desire to do what I love. I will be here in some capacity for the rest of my life. That's real...that's damn real."

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Op maandag 25 september 2006 23:54 schreef kidkash19 het volgende:
Ondankbare hond eigenlijk die Angle
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Have fun in TNA Kurt!!! Met veel poeha binnenkomen......dan afglijden net als Christian/Rhino. Vooral niet aan jezelf en je familie denken, nee lekker gaan worstelen en MMA'en is goed voor je nek

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Kurt Angle was not in Orlando, FL last night for the No Surrender PPV, and isn't expected at tonights "Impact" tapings. Angle was on the phone with Dixie Carter during the PPV Sunday night. The segment that aired on the broadcast was filmed late Wednesday night in Nashville by an independent film crew. Dave Meltzer is reporting that Angle's TNA contract is not an exclusive deal, which will allow him to seek MMA matches, which seems to be the plan for Angle's camp. At this point, Angle is expected to appear at the 10/22 Bound for Glory PPV in Detroit, but isn't scheduled to wrestle on the show.

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Op woensdag 27 september 2006 15:22 schreef kidkash19 het volgende:
Volgens mij is dat het begin vh hoogseizoen van de TV....In oktober beginnen alle series opnieuw ofzo

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