{"id":22172,"date":"2016-02-28T12:53:01","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T17:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/?p=22172"},"modified":"2016-02-28T12:53:27","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T17:53:27","slug":"kurt-angle-says-hes-not-retiring-talks-a-concussion-in-wwe-his-health-more-video-included","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/news\/kurt-angle-says-hes-not-retiring-talks-a-concussion-in-wwe-his-health-more-video-included\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Angle Says He&#8217;s Not Retiring, Talks A Concussion In WWE, His Health, More (Video Included)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"http:\/\/player.espn.com\/player.js?pcode=1kNG061cgaoolOncv54OAO1ceO-I&amp;width=576&amp;height=324&amp;externalId=espn:14854604\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Kurt Angle recently spoke with ESPN in the UK. Below are highlights, the full video can be viewed above:<\/p>\n<p><strong>His status:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wrestling has treated me very well. I had a great time in WWE, I had a great time in TNA. I&#8217;m very proud of my accomplishments, but I&#8217;m at a point in my life where, right now, family is more important, and it&#8217;s time for me to spend more time with them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m gonna take a break from [professional] wrestling, I know that for sure, at least a year. So we&#8217;ll see how it goes and I&#8217;ll go from there. I&#8217;m not gonna say I&#8217;m gonna retire. I am pretty much done with TNA. Not sure, maybe down the road, maybe I might come back, but most likely I probably won&#8217;t, because there&#8217;s a chance that I might not wrestle again. I just wanna get a feeler this year and see what I wanna do and see where I wanna go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>His health:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel it now [the injuries] &#8230; and I don&#8217;t regret anything I&#8217;ve done, in amateur wrestling or pro wrestling. I&#8217;m 47 years old and I have my pains and aches just like anybody else but the thing is, I can still go in that ring. I&#8217;m as good as anybody if not better. Even at 47, I&#8217;m at the top of my game, so the only thing I need is a little bit more time to recuperate, but other than that I can put on the five-star matches. So I&#8217;m not really concerned about my performance, I&#8217;m more concerned about how I&#8217;m gonna feel for the next 30, 40 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Suffering a concussion at SummerSlam 2000 against Triple H:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was a spot where Triple H was going to hit me with his sledgehammer, but I had the concussion and didn&#8217;t even know I was out there. My mind was blank. I came to two hours after the pay-per-view. When Triple H was going to hit me, but he actually put his hand on my head and made sure I ducked. If you watch it over, you&#8217;ll see that I was clueless, but he was looking out for me the whole match. They literally had to walk me through every step of the match to make sure I was safe. I don&#8217;t remember any of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kurt Angle recently spoke with ESPN in the UK. Below are highlights, the full video can be viewed above: His status: &#8220;Wrestling has treated me very well. I had a great time in WWE, I had a great time in TNA. I&#8217;m very proud of my accomplishments, but I&#8217;m at a point in my life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[267],"class_list":["post-22172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-kurt-angle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22173,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22172\/revisions\/22173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}