Quote: World Wrestling Entertainment announced this evening that former WWE champion Kurt Angle has been released from the company.
The WWE website stated, "Due to personal issues, Kurt Angle has been granted an early release from his contract. WWE looks forward to establishing a new relationship with Kurt in the near future."
Earlier this week, Dave Scherer and I discussed many of the issues surrounding Angle in recent weeks on our Hot News Hotline in the PWInsider.com Elite section. We will have a hotline regarding the situation up on PWInsider.com's Elite section tomorrow as well.
The lone Olympic Gold medalist in WWE history, Angle signed a developmental deal with the then-WWF in 1998 and debuted a year later. He headlined Wrestlemania XIX against Brock Lesnar in Seattle, Washington. In recent months, Angle had been taken off the road to deal with personal issues. Shortly after his return, Angle suffered a groin tear during a match with Rob Van Dam in White Plains, New York which necessitated his removal from in-ring involvement in recent ECW on Sci Fi episodes and the Summerslam PPV.
