Kurt Angle Discusses Coming Up With Ankle Lock Finisher

During the latest episode of his new podcast, The Kurt Angle Show, WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle talked about coming up with the ankle lock finisher. 

Here is what he had to say: 

“Being a shooter and having the history I did, I wanted to come up with a submission hold I could start using.  I knew that Ken Shamrock used the ankle lock.  He was gone doing MMA and I figured I might as well take that.  Ken Shamrock wasn’t upset about it.  He actually was very cool about it.  Taking his finish and using it helped me dearly.  It made me a more credible wrestler and more dangerous.

I can give it to anybody, any size.  It wouldn’t matter.  It had nothing to do with the Olympic Slam getting changed to the Angle Slam.  That was the Olympic Committee threatening to sue us if we used the word, Olympic, because they owned that word.  So, I had to change the Olympic Slam to the Angle Slam.  It’s funny because when Michael Cole found out the Olympic Committee was upset, the next week on RAW, he said Olympic Slam at least 15 times because he wanted to piss them off.  He just kept saying it.  It was hilarious.  We have a sense of humor in the wrestling world.  The fans would call it the Angle lock.  I called it the ankle lock because I didn’t want to take away from Ken Shamrock.  The word he used was ankle and I wanted to continue with that out of respect to Ken.”

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