Kurt Angle has competed in professional wrestling matches.
King of the Ring ( 2000 ) was the eighth annual King of the Ring professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ) . Kurt Angle . Angle made his first appearance at a professional wrestling event in 1996 , with his in-ring debut in 1999 . As part of TNA , he made appearances for New Japan Pro-Wrestling ( NJPW ) and the Inoki Genome Federation ( IGF ) , holding the IWGP Heavyweight Championship once . He is the only professional wrestler in history to have won the WWE Championship , WWE 's World Heavyweight Championship , the WCW Championship , the TNA World Heavyweight Championship , and the IWGP Heavyweight Championship .