10 Times WWE Loved Making Your Favourite Wrestlers Cry
10. Kurt Angle
These tears were earned.
Not at No Mercy 2000 when, thanks to lashings of interference by Rikishi and Triple H, Kurt Angle was able to upset The Rock for the WWE Championship merely 11 months into his main roster career. But at the Olympic Games four years earlier when - and you may have heard this one before - he won a gold medal with a broken freakin' neck.
On that Atlanta evening in 1996, Angle fell to his knees in tears in celebration not just of the victory but of the perseverance and personal punishment it took to reach the pinnacle.
The WWE equivalent subverted that beautifully. Able to gently mock that the company and its top prize wasn't quite as prestigious as the medal, and fold in that Angle's latest accomplishment was another ill-gotten one in a year full of them, this found the sweet spot between sickening and stupidly sentimental.