Kurt Angle

Kurt Angle won the Olympic Gold Medals in 1996 for freestyle wrestling in the heavyweight (90–100 kg; 198–220 lb) weight class, overcoming two fractured vertebrae in his neck to do so.

In 1999, Kurt joined the WWE (Then-WWF), and within one year won all three major singles titles (WWE Championship, Intercontinental Championship, European Championship, and became the 2000 King of the Ring. During his seven-year career in the WWE, Kurt also won the World Heavyweight Championship, the WWE Tag Team Championship, the United States Championship, and the WWE Hardcore Championship. After leaving the WWE in 2006, Kurt immediately joined TNA Wrestling, where he was the first man to hold the TNA World Championship, TNA X-Division Championship and the TNA Tag Team Championship simultaneously. By defeated Brock Lesnar, Kurt Angle is also the only man to hold the TNA World Championship and the IWGP World Championship simultaneously.

Kurt is the only Olympic Gold Medalist in professional wrestling history. He is one of the more decorated and winningest wrestlers of all time. His nickname "The Greatest Professional Wrestling In The World" may be more than a nickname.

WWE Champions
Angle was very successful in his HTTT debut, defeating Yokozuna in the opening round, John Cena in the second, and Hulk Hogan to make it to the semifinal round, where he was eliminated by Shawn Michaels.