Would Kurt Angle be successful in MMA?

I'm with you on that. I wouldn't trade Angle's classic mathces with Brock Lesnar, Chris Benoit or Shane McMahon for anything. He's still producing great matches in TNA with guys like Samoa Joe.

 

Angle made the right choice. His a millionaire and very comfortable. The UFC back then couldnt have given him a fraction of that.

 

I wonder how much Angle has made from 'rasslin? Way more than he could have done from MMA I suppose. He made the right choice :yep

 

According to the kid, it wasn't scripted, and it sure didn't look scripted to me. And what exactly was he going to do to the kid? It looks like the kid is the one who could/would have done the ass kicking. Give Angle a time machine and some training and he eats that kid and a lot of others for lunch, but it looked to me like that night the kid was the real fighter in the ring.

 

It was in a WWE ring. The whole Puder vs Angle match was scripted BUT Puder thought he`d be smart and pulled rank. And thats why Angle was pissed. I dont blame him though a Kimura`s no joke. Angle has a career as a wrestling ATG. Who the **** was Puder!?

 

OH MAN! I just saw that for the first time, and I TOTALLY agree.

It is very very clear that Puder would have beaten Angle if Angle ACTUALLY tried to through down, so the posturing at the end was obviously just for the cameras.

Yeah though, it looks like the kid came close to pulling that kimura off in half-guard, there is no way Kurt could hang now with any of the MMA elite. He has no real striking training and he doesn't seem like he is efficient at all in submission grappling. What's he going to do, pin all of his opponents? It means nothing in MMA.

 

It all comes down to if you think it was scripted or not, so who do you believe? The Puder kid's statement sounds plausible to me.

 

If Kurt knew that Puder was going to try and actually beat him, Angle could have ****ed him up pretty bad.

Puder isn't a top level fighter by any stretch of the imagination, and alot worse wrestlers have stepped straight into MMA and beaten alot better fighters than Puder.

 

Not only that - but Puder was going for the shoulder lock from half guard. Kurt could still have worked his way out of it. If it had been from a fully closed guard - that would have been a different story.

 

Thats kinda my point though. It looked like Kurt was gonna get tapped from Half-guard, and, ready for it or not, that looks bad on him.

Beebs, Kurt MIGHT be able to destroy Puder, but it's not a sure thing. Is Kurt a better wrestler than Puder? No question, but that doesn't necessarily make him a better fighter. Puder is 6 and 0 after all, he isn't like, a total bum.

 

Thats fair enough, Puder isn't bad by any means. Its more that I think grabbing a kimura when either the whole thing was supposed to be scripted, or was supposed to be a competetive freestyle or folkstyle wrestling match, without submissions, is not a good indicator of what would happen in a live match with 2 aware participants from the start.

 

Definitely not.

Still, it was at least 10 times as entertaining for me than if Puder would have faced him legit. I just LOVE that he pulled that, even if it makes him kinda a dick.

 

Not to forget the classic with Michaels couple of years ago Too bad Angle injured hes neck again :verysad

 

What the ****? This thread is three years old. Did you really need to bump it up to stick it to the TS?

As for Angle, he probably could have been successful as long as his body held up if he'd chosen to go into MMA instead of pro wrestling in the 90s.

 

The guys a troll. His just bumped about 10 threads from about 3 years ago.