Kurt Angle is an athlete.
The IWGP Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling heavyweight championship used by the Inoki Genome Federation ( IGF ) promotion . Kurt Angle . In 2004 , the Wrestling Observer Newsletter inducted Angle into its Hall of Fame , and later named him `` Wrestler of the Decade '' for the 2000s . 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 . Wrestling is a combat sport involving grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting , throws and takedowns , joint locks , pins and other grappling holds .