Kurt Angle is an athlete.
The IWGP Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling heavyweight championship used by the Inoki Genome Federation ( IGF ) promotion . Kurt Steven Angle ( born December 9 , 1968 ) is an American professional wrestler , actor , and retired amateur wrestler . After graduating college , Angle won a gold medal in freestyle wrestling at the 1995 World Wrestling Championships . In professional wrestling , a push is an attempt by the booker to make a wrestler win more matches and become more popular or more reviled with the fans depending on whether they are a heel or a face . Shoot wrestling ( also known as Shoot style or Strong style ) is a combat sport that has its origins in Japan 's professional wrestling circuit of the 1970s .