Pro wrestler Kurt Angle headed for another serious surgery
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Kurt Angle is headed back under the knife.
The WWE Hall of Famer and Mt. Lebanon native made the announcement during a recent “Kurt Angle Show” podcast, according to reports.
“I need surgery again so my neck is so jacked, it’s pathetic,” Angle said. “Back is on March 21st.”
Angle isn’t just a WWE and TNA wrestling legend, the guy was the real deal, too as an amateur wrestler. The 54-year-old wrestled collegiately at Clarion and went on to win a gold medal — with a broken neck — at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.
That neck has long been an issue for Angle. But it hasn’t been the only issue. Angle had a double knee replacement in 2022. Back surgery always feels serious, but if there is any good news this time around, it’s that the surgery Angle is headed in for doesn’t sound as serious as some of the other procedures he has had in his life.
“They’re not gonna do any fusion or anything like that, thank God,” Angle said. “They’re gonna clean it out. They’re gonna clean out all the arthritis out because I have a nerve going down my leg and it’s bothering me and there’s pain in my lower back and so they’re gonna clean all that stuff out, take the bone chips out and the calcium and stuff like that.
“So he said I should be good to go after that,” he added. “A lot of damage to my back, but it’s not to the point where I need fusion.”
Sadly, though, Angle said the surgery — while necessary — won’t take all of his pain away.
“He said it might not relieve all the lower back pain,” Angle said. “But you’re not gonna feel the pain running down your leg.”
When Angle had the double knee replacement last year, he said he had been putting off neck fusion surgery for 15 years so he could continue to wrestle but that he would one day have to have that operation done.
Angle, who last wrestled in 2018, was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2017.