10 Most Explosive Wrestlers Of All Time
4. Kurt Angle
Kurt Angle referred to himself as a 'Wrestling Machine', and it rang true. It rang d*mn true.
Angle's explosiveness was informed by his intensity and, for his era, unparalleled athleticism. Angle was a superb technician, and he elevated that genre by bringing a propulsive quality to one usually driven by intricate limb work. Angle had little cause to focus his attacks; if he hadn't worked the leg into a state of agony, and his opponents were able to ascend the turnbuckle, he possessed the incredible, crowd-popping ability to sprint up to their position and throw them to oblivion with a top rope overhead belly-to-belly suplex.
Angle's sheer power allowed him to detonate his big bombs with a frightening level of force, so much so that, against the best, most emotive bumpers - Rey Mysterio and Shawn Michaels, in particular - he engineered super-dramatic moments of genuine, oh-sh*t peril.
At his best, Angle was the best; even now, where the existence of modern wrestling renders much of his era antiquated, his charged work bursts through the screen and would belong, in a utopia of a parallel universe, in the cauldron of the best NJPW G1 Climax battles.