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WWE: Ranking The Top 10 Kurt Angle Matches

By Joe Anthony Myrick

31 Jul 1996: Kurt Angle of the United States holds the American flag at the free-style wrestling competition during the Summer Olympics at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
31 Jul 1996: Kurt Angle of the United States holds the American flag at the free-style wrestling competition during the Summer Olympics at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia. /
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We are currently dawning on WWE WrestleMania weekend and there is a lot to look forward to on the big day.  Among the weekend’s festivities, we will see the final in-ring match of one Kurt Angle.

Mind you, not a lot of people are happy with the man chosen as Angle’s final opponent – Baron Corbin – but regardless of who he is facing, all of us are mourning and begrudging the final in-ring match of an Olympic Hero.

At age 50 and just over 20 long years in this business, Angle has led a career that any wrestler would be proud to have. 4-time WWE Champion, WrestleMania headliner, former World Heavyweight Champion, former European Champion, former Intercontinental Champion, former Tag Team Champion, former Hardcore Champion, a King of the Ring winner and to cap it all off, he is a WWE Hall of Famer. Did we mention that he also won an Olympic gold medal with a broken freakin’ neck? Because he totally did that. Not sure if he’s ever mentioned that.

We are going to miss seeing Angle on our television screens putting on a mat classic; which, in many ways, he’s done a couple times previously on Raw; most notably in a November match against Drew McIntyre and more recently in matches for his Farewell Tour. However, the gold medalist has shed enough blood, sweat, tears and broken bones in the middle of that ring that he deserves to rest up comfortably in retirement.

At the very least, we will always have memories and, of course, footage on the WWE Network of both his best moments and best matches. His matches especially were in a league of their own. So we decided to memoralize the best of his in-ring work in the following slideshow.

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