Karen Angle

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Karen Angle

Kurt and Karen Angle after a match.
Statistics
Ring name(s)	Karen Angle
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)^[1]
Born	October 12, 1972 (1972-10-12) (age 35) Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Trained by	Kurt Angle
Debut	2007

Karen Angle (nèe Smedley) (born October 12, 1972) is a professional wrestling valet and personality currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. She is the real life wife of professional wrestler and former Olympic gold medalist Kurt Angle.

1 Early life
2 Career
- 2.1 Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2007–Current)
3 In wrestling
4 Personal life
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Early life

She graduated from Hempfield Area High School in Greensburg, Pennsylvania in 1990. She can be seen alongside husband Kurt Angle in the ring at WWF Unforgiven 2001. She was identified as family, but never mentioned as his wife.

[edit] Career

[edit] Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2007–Current)

Karen Angle was introduced in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) in the summer of 2007 when Samoa Joe and Kurt Angle were feuding for an all-at-once Triple Crown Championship (Kurt held the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, and Joe held the TNA X Division and TNA World Tag Team Championship). Karen was supposedly wanting to divorce Kurt, claiming that he was emotionally abusive toward both her and their children.^[2] At the Hard Justice pay per view, however, Karen betrayed Joe during his match with her husband, resulting in Kurt winning the Triple Crown.^[3]

In the following weeks, her character began to develop into a manipulative vamp, such as when Karen claimed that Sting slapped her at No Surrender when, in fact, he had not. This led to Kurt and Sting losing the Tag Team titles to Team Pacman after Kurt executed the Olympic slam on Sting. Another feud then erupted between Kurt Angle and Sting in which Sting had Karen arrested for violating a restraining order and Kurt stalking Sting's son. At Genesis, Karen persuaded A.J. Styles and Tomko into helping Kurt retain the TNA World Heavyweight Championship during the tag team match for the title.

In late 2007, Karen began to have issues with Booker T's wife Sharmell, claiming there was only room for one "queen" in TNA (a direct reference to Booker T's and Sharmell's last WWE gimmick, where they were self-believed royalty). This led to a catfight at the December 12 iMPACT! tapings, where Karen suffered a broken foot.^[4] She did not miss any time as a result of TNA's taping schedule.

On the February 14 edition of iMPACT, Karen was scheduled to renew her wedding vows to Kurt, but in the storyline, she was pronounced married to A.J. Styles after the priest, who had just been knocked down by Samoa Joe, awoke and married the two, mistaking Styles for Kurt. Kurt then started to emotionally attack Karen for not ending the "marriage." Recently she proposed to separate from Kurt Angle (Kayfabe) which Kurt Angle supported to "Concentrated on his upcoming match with Samoa Joe at Lockdown. Since then, hints of a relationship with A.J. were given, after Kurt continued to ignore Karen, even having her ejected from her ringside seat at Lockdown.

On the May 22nd edition of iMPACT, Kurt Angle asked Karen to the ring to forgive her for not performing her wifely duites and to ask her to come home. Karen then left a begging Kurt in the ring after he pleaded for a 2nd chance. At the end of iMPACT, Karen came to the ring to the aid of AJ Styles who was being beaten 4 on 1 by Booker T, Team 3D, and Tomko. After being ejected, Karen ran to the back to enlist Kurt's aid, who came out with a chair. Kurt threatened the 4 with the chair, only to turn around and see his estranged wife hugging a bloody AJ. Kurt freaked and hit AJ with the chair, thus prompting the 4 back in the ring. Team 3D held Karen up while Kurt held AJ's head, yelling at Karen, telling her this was all her fault. Kurt is quoted as saying to Karen, "This is your fault! You deceived me!" On the May 29th edition of iMPACT after being assaulted backstage before his entrance, AJ ran to the ring to help Karen only to be beat down by Team 3D and Kurt Angle for the second week in a row. Christian Cage came to the ring to aid Styles but was viciously assaulted for his trouble as well. It was then announced that at the Slammiversary pay-per-view it would be AJ Styles one-on-one with Kurt Angle.The following week Kurt and Karen were talking via satellite for obvious reasons.Karen said that she loved Kurt and all she wanted was time with him, but he loved himself more than his wife and children.Kurt asked what was wrong with that? Kurt also accused Karen of sleeping with AJ again, but Karen said that nothing ever happened.Kurt said that at Slammiversary,"I'm gonna take your damn boyfriend, AJ and I'm gonna break every bone in his body," as they finished the broadcast. At Slammiversary, Karen interfered to help AJ Styles defeat Kurt Angle.