10 Most Inspiring Wrestling Transformations

10. Kurt Angle

It was all too easy to forget that Kurt Angle was battling through significant drug and alcohol addictions for much of his career, precisely because the quality of his on-screen battles masked the realities of life on the other side of the curtain.

A disagreement with WWE over his health and wellbeing in 2006 resulted in Angle shocking the wrestling world with a move to TNA. This was was supposed to be a period of convalescence for the Olympic Gold Medalist, but the switch resulted in Angle doubling down on his dosages in order to try and maintain the facade as 'The Wrestling Machine'.

Though outstanding contests exploded off the screen on a near-weekly basis during his unsurprisingly excellent TNA tenure, legal issues and DUIs told the tale of his knife-edge status before entering rehab in 2013 and remaining sober ever since. His WWE return via a Hall Of Fame induction in 2017 wasn't awash with as many memorable moments and matches, but a clean and happy Kurt was infinitely preferable to none at all.