Kurt Angle won a championship.
King of the Ring was a professional wrestling single-elimination tournament held by WWE . The tournament was held annually from 1985 to 2002 , with the exception of 1990 and 1992 , and from 1993 to 2002 , the tournament was produced as a pay-per-view event . Kurt Angle . After graduating college , Angle won a gold medal in freestyle wrestling at the 1995 World Wrestling Championships . 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 . Angle is also the only person to have been King of the Mountain and King of the Ring .