10 Precise Moments When TNA Careers Ended

2. Kurt Angle

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It'd be fun to know what was going through Kurt Angle's head as he stared up at the lights on the 8 March 2016 IMPACT. Again, that show was pre-taped in January, but it didn't air for a good few months. At that stage, Kurt probs figured he was heading for one more in-ring WWE run.

Not quite.

Angle bowed out of TNA/IMPACT after being pinned by Bobby Lashley. He then went on to work a series of celebrated indy dates before rejoining WWE as Raw's General Manager the following year. Some matches did follow, but Kurt's second WWE stint didn't really satisfy or give him the closure he wanted.

His TNA ending was actually better than his WWE one - losing to Bobby Lashley in a hotly-contested scrap was way, way, way preferable to working with Baron Corbin at WrestleMania 35. No offence to Corbs, but that was a match Kurt didn't even want in the first place.

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