Kurt Angle close to signing a MMA deal [Archive]

jec1

11 Oct 2007, 05:22 PM

Kurt Angle Very Close To Signing MMA Deal - Details - eWrestlingNews.com (http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/stories/Kurt_Angle_Very_Close_To_Signing_MMA_Deal_-_D.shtml)

I guess he was fed up with the amount of workload, good for him!

onefineesq

11 Oct 2007, 05:24 PM

Kurt Angle Very Close To Signing MMA Deal - Details - eWrestlingNews.com (http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/stories/Kurt_Angle_Very_Close_To_Signing_MMA_Deal_-_D.shtml)

I guess he was fed up with the amount of workload, good for him! Seems to me that he will be doing MMA in addition to pro wrestling, not instead of it. Read the link again.

jec1

11 Oct 2007, 05:26 PM

True but how can you balance the two?

If I were him, I would live TNA, it's a sinking ship!

onefineesq

11 Oct 2007, 05:30 PM

True but how can you balance the two?

If I were him, I would live TNA, it's a sinking ship! Apparently he already has that figured out. It seems from his quote that the REASON he is taking this particular deal of the many that are offered is because it interferes the least with his pro wrestling activities.

TheSlipperyOne

11 Oct 2007, 05:40 PM

What are IFL's steroid testing policies?

ssanchez

29 Oct 2007, 03:09 AM

I don't like this wrestlers to MMA trend, mixes them too much for my taste. One is mostly coriographed acrobatics and physical theatre. The other has its history in true vale tudo. Seems like a bad move for the sport.

HSEUPASSION

29 Oct 2007, 03:37 AM

True but how can you balance the two?

If I were him, I would live TNA, it's a sinking ship!

TNA is turning a profit and getting it's highest television ratings ever. Hardly seems a sinking ship.

Angle has a contract with TNA until 2009.

TheSlipperyOne

29 Oct 2007, 03:11 PM

I don't like this wrestlers to MMA trend, mixes them too much for my taste. One is mostly coriographed acrobatics and physical theatre. The other has its history in true vale tudo. Seems like a bad move for the sport.

Angle and Lesner were both great college wrestlers. Just like Hughes and others in UFC, etc.

If that's something they bring to the table I don't mind (and they'll take their lumps anyways). If it was guys with only fake wrestling to their name then I'd have a problem.

I still remember when WWF tried to make a big deal of getting Shamrock and Severn signed for them. Wow, they were terrible in the realm of fake wrestling.