Kurt Angle Interview
Posted by David Damage on Monday, October 17, 2011
Under: Interviews
Kurt Angle on his return to collegiate Olympic wrestling:
“I’ve been training for the last six months. The training has gone
phenomenally well. I didn’t realize I was going catch on this quickly,
but you know it’s like getting on a bicycle and riding again. That’s not
to say it didn’t go without any injuries here and there. I’ve hurt my
Achilles tendon and my hamstring but I’ve been hanging on tightly
and training very hard. I’m on schedule so thank God, I have a very
good chance of making the team. A lot of it has to do with me beating a
guy named Jake Barter, who is a world silver and bronze medalist. He
hasn’t had quite the success I have had when I was there but when I was
there I was very young. I was in my mid-twenties and I didn’t have a
game plan. Now I’m a lot older and wiser; I look at my training, I look
at my game plan, I look at the way I’m going to wrestle. I know I’ll
make a lot less mistakes and I know I’ll train more properly. The thing
was that I had over-trained in the past. I was training nine or ten
hours a day, and at some point it became counterproductive. I think I
could have been a much better wrestler if I had done things the right
way.”
On his line of food products:
“You know, a lot of
people have been counting calories, carbohydrates, fats, proteins, but
never count fiber. I’m going to say this now: fiber is the best kept
secret in the world. It can really make or break your body. Fiber can
help you lose fat, body weight, lower cholesterol, blood pressure and
sugar. Basically it is the healthiest product on the market. There are a
lot of fiber products that are one or two layer fibers. UltraFiber DX
from Angle Foods is and eight layer fiber developed by a doctor in
Germany. It was intended to help obese and diabetic patients to get off
medication and help improve quality and longevity of life. You can
purchase it at anglefoods.com. This is what you should be feeding your
kids. The powder works as a cooking agent. You can make it into
pancakes, pizza and bread dough, and so many other things.”
On the current direction of Impact Wrestling and “passing the torch”:
“God willing, we have more wrestling and less talk. I’ve been pushing
for that. Sometimes we have people there on the show that don’t wrestle.
They take up a lot of the show with only promos. The young guys need to
step up and be the guys cutting the promos. It’s kind of a catch 22. We
need to realize who we are and we need to fix the problem. The young
talent needs the opportunity to shine. I’m one of the top guys in the
company and I don’t want to remain there. I don’t know who it will be
but I am more than willing to find somebody in the company to hand to
torch over to and say ‘hey, you take the lead and I’ll follow you.’
"I’m near the end of my career. I’ve got three more years left with TNA
Wrestling and then I’m done. I signed that deal with TNA so I can help
the company. I want them to compete with WWE. It will take some time,
but it will happen.”
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