WWE icon Kurt Angle blazed a trail for amateur wrestling prodigies transitioning to the glitz and glamour of the professional ranks. Eight years later Bobby Lashley almost followed the same path fr…
WWE icon Kurt Angle blazed a trail for amateur wrestling prodigies transitioning to the glitz and glamour of the professional ranks.
Lashley, already a gold medalist from his time in the United States Army wrestling in the International Military Sports Council, had aspirations of adding another at the 2004 Olympics.Kurt Angle reveals he took 65 painkillers a day and overdosed before Brock Lesnar WWE bout A bullet barely grazed him as he dived for cover but as he went down he shattered his knee...right before the World Team trials.
During an interview with talkSPORT, Lashley said: "I was the Olympic training centre at the time training and Kurt came over with the WWE and he was doing a vignette for a match-up that he had. "Amateur wrestlers always had a little grief with professional wrestling to a certain extent but when Kurt came down and talked to me and said, “If you were have done everything that you did in wrestling…if you had done that in football or baseball or basketball you’d be a multi-millionaire. He said professional wrestling is our pro sport."
Lashley told talkSPORT: "Brisco called me and there were a series of events that happened and I came and from there I fell in love with pro wrestling as an actual pro wrestler.
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