Kurt Angle Very Close To Signing MMA Deal - Details - eWrestlingNews.com 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.