'I'm Paying the Price Right Now': Pittsburgh Native Kurt Angle Reflects on Wrestling Career
- Kurt Angle, a Pittsburgh native and Olympic gold medalist, reflected on his wrestling career on Sunday’s edition of "4 The Record."
- Angle discussed multiple injuries, including two broken necks, that introduced him to painkillers and led to a serious addiction forcing him to leave WWE.
- He revealed that during the famous WWE segment where he drenched Stone Cold Steve Austin and others with “milk,” the liquid sprayed from the hose was actually water mixed with white food coloring, while the cartons he handled contained real milk.
- Angle acknowledged the sacrifices he made for both his athletic career and professional wrestling, noting that the consequences are evident now, and revealed that at one point he was consuming 65 Vicodin tablets daily.
- After overcoming addiction and enduring several surgeries, Angle has maintained sobriety for nearly 14 years, and a film depicting his life story is in development.
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WWE Hall of Famer and Olympic gold medalist Kurt Angle looks back on an iconic episode of his wrestling career. The veteran actually revisits a few of them in a new edition of WWE Retrospective, but this time we focus on the time he milked Stone Cold Steve Austin and the rest of the WCW/ECW alliance during Monday Night RAW on August 20, 2001. ► Kurt Angle, Milk That Isn't Milk and a Stinky Flight "This was the greatest moment of my career, above…
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