Kurt Angle On Breaking His Neck

During a recent episode of The Kurt Angle Show, Angle spoke on breaking his neck right before the 1996 Olympics. Here’s what he had to say:

The next day when I realized I had a broken neck, I went to the doctor and had an MRI. He told me I had four broken vertebrae and three discs sticking directly in my spinal cord. So it was a pretty serious injury. At that point, I wasn’t gonna be cleared to wrestle, so I had to come up with a good game plan with my doctor. We decided the Olympic trials were about two months away and he asked me how long I had. I said about two months. He said, ‘We might be able to make this work.’ We actually came up with a game plan. You can’t do this today with the liabilities, but back then, you were a little more giving. The doctor would give you the option of going for it even if you were injured. There was just less liability.

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Credit: The Kurt Angle Show. H/T 411Mania.