When we think of Kurt Angle we think of a phenomenal athlete and one of the best pro wrestlers in history. It’s hard to envision him being anything but the agile athlete that could leap onto the ropes to grab his opponent.
But the sport takes a toll on one’s body, and over the years things start going wrong and injuries mount. Because of that, Angle developed a drug dependency over the years to help deal with the mounting injuries.
He recently sat down to do an interview with Chris Van Vliet and he talked about his injuries and how his quality of life isn’t good at the moment.
A steep price
They covered a lot of topics from how his first bump felt and more, and when Chris asked him if he could back into the ring, he talked about his quality of life.
Special thanks to Wrestlingnews.co for the transcript
“I wish. You know what? My quality of life right now isn’t so good. I had my knees replaced about a year ago. I had back surgery about four months ago. I have to have my shoulder replaced. I still have another neck, the same surgery coming up. That will be my fourth neck surgery. I really paid the price wrestling as long as I did. I wrestled amateur wrestling for 20 years and then pro for 20, and looking back, sometimes I regret, maybe I should have retired five years earlier because, you know, it comes to a point in time in your life where you’re older and you want to play with your kids and here I am having these surgeries. I can’t really do anything with them. I can’t pick them up. I can’t play with them. I can’t run with them. So it’s a little disgruntling that I’m not able to be the father that I want to be. What I’m doing now is I’m having knee surgeries to have a better quality of life so I can play with them and I just want to make it fast because these kids are growing up quickly and I don’t want to miss it.”
Angle continued to say that he deals with pain every day.
“Every day, every day, my back, my shoulder. My knees are good. My knees feel great. They recovered really well. I’m 100% with my knees, but my neck and my back and my shoulder. I have a lot of pain running all day long, all night. So it’s something I just have to deal with until I have these surgeries and until I recuperate.”
It’s never easy for us to see or hear of our favorites hurting like this, especially after appearing to be impervious to injury in character. But it just goes to show the price they pay to entertain us night after night.
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