Kurt Steven Angle (born December 9 1968) is an American professional wrestler and former Olympic amateur wrestler. He currently works for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he is the current TNA World Heavyweight Champion. He is an overall 8-time World Champion as a singles wrestler according to Pro Wrestling Illustrated.

Angle was involved in amateur wrestling during both high school and college. In college, he won numerous accolades, including being a two-time National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I champion. After graduating, he won the 1995 World Championship tournament. Angle then competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where he won a gold medal in heavyweight freestyle wrestling.

Initially turning down an offer to join the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), Angle signed a multi-year contract with the company in 1998. As part of the WWF (and later WWE), he was a WCW United States Champion, WCW World Heavyweight Champion, WWE Tag Team Champion, four-time WWF/E Champion, WWF European Champion, WWF Hardcore Champion, WWF Intercontinental Champion, and WWE's World Heavyweight Champion. In addition, he was the winner of the King of the Ring tournament in 2000, the tenth Triple Crown Champion, and the fourth Grand Slam Champion.

After leaving WWE, Angle joined Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he became the second wrestler in TNA to win the Triple Crown and the first man to hold all three TNA championships simultaneously. Angle has also made appearances for New Japan Pro Wrestling and Inoki Genome Federation, where he is the former IWGP Third Belt Champion (recognized by IGF and TNA as the IWGP World Championship, by the National Wrestling Alliance as the NWA Japan Championship and by NJPW as the IWGP Third Belt Championship).