10 Things You Didn’t Know About Kurt Angle

That being said, it seems Angle hasn’t always been in amateur wrestling’s good books. During his early days in WWE, there was an incident that resulted in the International Olympic Committee (IOC) making a very specific request.

On a March 2004 episode of WWE Confidential, Angle revealed that the IOC asked him to refrain from using the word 'Olympic' in the naming of his finishing manoeuvre. The Olympic Slam had of course been the name of the move that Angle had used to achieve much of his WWE success to that point, but clearly the association hadn’t sat well within his former circles.

And so Angle obliged, soon altering the name of his finisher to the imaginatively-entitled Angle Slam which, if nothing else, would presumably afford him control of the naming rights to the move.

However, the Olympic Slam did make a return during his later run in TNA, so maybe it was just something that the IOC had against WWE in particular.