Kurt Angle and His Actions Outside the Ring

[Poop Master Flex]

First off I will say that I'm the type of person who couldn't care less about what a wrestler, actor, athlete or public figure does in their spare time, frankly its none of my business, it only really bothers me when they bring their problems to the workplace (like Jeff Hardy). With that said I'm really starting to worry and wonder about Kurt Angle.

From what I've seen Kurt really can do no wrong in front of the camera, a great performer and probably one of my all time favorites. IMO he is a five tool player and has everything you need to be a success in wrestling.

Now its well known that Kurts private life over the last long while hasn't been that great. He has been arrested NUMEROUS times for being intoxicated while in a drivers seat, he's had some domestic disputes and has a restraining order from Rhaka Kahn. I know this is mostly old news but his tweets yesterday and how he said someone hacked his account and he didn't write those really got me thinking.

The truth is Kurt Angle always seems to have an excuse for whatever happens in his life. He wasn't drunk he just pulled over to get some sleep, someone hacked his twitter account, he was just driving around and just happened to show up by Rhaka Kahn, he wasn't drunk driving home he was just swerving a bit, ect. My point is Kurt Angle always has some excuse for everything bad that happens in his life, NOTHING is his fault in his eyes.

I'm sorry but from what I see it can only be one of 2 things:

1) Someone really has it out for Kurt Angle
2) Kurt's a ***k up in real life

Like I said before I don't care what he does in his spare time but considering how many times over the last 2-3 years Kurt has had issues and legal troubles it might be time to get the guy help. I know this has probably been said before but it all comes down to that I don't want another wrestler to become another wrestling tragedy. With the road he's going down he's either gonna wind up like the Dynamite Kid or he will wind up dead.

It would be nice if TNA helped him out (although I don't think its their responsibility) but I feel Kurt seriously needs help and needs to get his life back together. I don't know how much of the stories are BS or imbellished but it certainly is a cause for concern.

Kurt wrestling wise is like an unstoppable machine but if his personal situation isn't taken care of then eventually the machine will cease to work and I don't want that to happen to Kurt or anyone else. I feel Kurt needs to be held accountable for his actions (like many in TNA and wrestling in general) and if he isn't its only a matter of time until Kurt turns becomes another figure in a long line of wrestling tragedies.

Maybe I'm over analyzing and thinking too much, but I've seen behaviour like this before and from my experience it never ends well.

 

[sTyLnK]

I'm not going to judge him because that's not what I do, but I will say that he's had quite a few rough moments throughout his wrestling career so it's not surprising that he's upset more people. This is why I don't like Facebook or Twitter or any of that junk. One wrong thing even if you didn't mean it that way and people are at your throat. That's why Edge is so smart and doesn't do social media. You never know what the heck the guy is up to, but it helps because you never hear anything bad about the guy either.

 

[steveh0481]

I believe that there are possibly things going on in Kurt's life that arent public. I mean, this guy is one heck of a wrestler, but the dude pushes himself beyond limits and its definitely killing him each day. Since alcoholism runs in the family, I think its safe to say its something that he suffers with as well. Along with that, he's had an issue with steroid use (HGH) and a marriage with a former stripper that was simply out to use him for his money. I would say that while he's far from a role model portrayed in his book, he simply needs to be around people that arent just using him and are better influences for him. Hope he does that soon cause he's on a pretty ugly spiral right now

 

[No Sell]

Regardless of Kurt's problems or furthermore if he did write the comments on twitter - CM Punk has no business 'tweeting' what he did about Kurt "my twitter account was hacked", is the new: "I'm a sloppy drunk douche".

Punk is nowhere near the talent Angle is nor will he ever be. Secondly, if Kurt did make the Twitter comments, they were directed at Orton and not Punk. As usual, Punk has to stick his nose in as a troll to get his name included. Pretty pathetic. Then to be so disrespectful to somebody of Kurt’s caliber that came before him in the business is sickening. One day soon Punk is going to get his face smashed in ala Shawn Michaels by some friendly Marines and only then will Punk learn to shut his big mouth because he certainly can't back it up.

As for Kurt and his situations, I think he is borderline right now with being involved in some questionable scenarios behind the wheel. I think if he starts making better choices before getting behind a wheel he'll be fine. He has not done anything extremely insane. Yet. What happens from here is all in his hands.

 

[MizFitAwesome]

Here we go again, Jeremy Boresh makes inflammatory comments about a fan and then claims 'someone hacked my account.' Kurt does the same thing and makes the same excuse. TNA needs to get their company priorities set, stop wasting their time on Twitter and focus on trying to make a better product.

 

[H33LTurn]

I think its no question that Kurt has had problems in the past but the past is the past. Concerning his most recent actions all I have to say is that if his account was really hacked then thats a shame, it really is, that someone would take advantage of knowing his password to spread a misconception about Kurt. Now if he really said those things then he needs to look for help. Besides his recent string of f*ck ups, Kurt is being extremely disrespectful to his fellow wrestlers. Wrestlers love to talk out of the ass sometimes and one thing that they always feel the need to mention is people doing "their" moves. No one wrestler owns a particular move. They might have made it famous but implying that others should find something more creative to do is like implying that nobody should do the sharpshooter or wear sunglasses because Bret Hart did that. Wrestlers and public figures love pulling at strings in order to draw attention to themselves. I do question, however, the environment TNA stars are performing in where guys like Kurt and Jeff Hardy, who were supposed to get rid of their demons, have been encouraged to continue their horrible lifestyles.

 

[PagingMr.ass]

I wouldn't worry about Kurt Angle, the guy had one little run in with the five-0 recently and he was apparently "sober" enough to talk his way out of a DUI which isn't easy to do. If you can live your whole life without having to deal with a cop once or twice than more power to you but if you get a mistdemenor or two along the way i don't think it takes to much out of your overall character. And yes he's had his issues with steriods and pain killers in the past but what pro wrestler hasn't. As far as the mania tweets, I believe that his acount was hacked, why would he retract his statements so fast, orton should feel stupid for jumping the gun and childishly responding to something Angle didn't even do, and as far as C.M. Punk goes he literally defines the word doushe. Lets not forget Angles an Olympian, pretty impresive.

 

[rangers617]

Punk should mind his own business and stop getting involved in everyone else's crap.regardless is kurt said those things or not they were too orton not punk and punk will never be half the wrestler kurt is and i wish he would come back to wwe

 

[s3mach]

Punk should mind his own business and stop getting involved in everyone else's crap.regardless is kurt said those things or not they were too orton not punk and punk will never be half the wrestler kurt is and i wish he would come back to wwe

I really think your mistaken on this.. Punk is a very skilled inside the ring. He incorporates the whole martial arts aspect along with technical skill... He also holds his own on the mic with the best of em.

 

[Zeven_Zion]

I really think your mistaken on this.. Punk is a very skilled inside the ring. He incorporates the whole martial arts aspect along with technical skill... He also holds his own on the mic with the best of em.

Martial .. what? Punk? What's so Martial Arts about him? Don't believe the commentary. It's foolish. You mean those girly kicks he does?

Punk is NOT skilled inside a WWE ring. He's damn good in any other ring. He's got few moves which, honestly, look fucking sloppy and botched half the time.

As far as mic work and charisma go - he's the best in WWE when it comes to that. Hands down. And that's what they need. Why he's not in a World Title run is beyond me.

Kurt should really shut the fuck up by now. I mean, he is great and all, but stop being such children. Seriously, I've seen more bickering between wrestlers in a week than I have seen on these forums in a year.

 

[Kitten Cutter]

Kurt should really shut the fuck up by now. I mean, he is great and all, but stop being such children. Seriously, I've seen more bickering between wrestlers in a week than I have seen on these forums in a year.

Amen to that, Zevon. Why Kurt got so offended is beyond me. Especially in the fact that he used the ankle lock first used by Ken Shamrock, and I don't remember who did rolling German Suplexes first, him or Benoit, both they both used them pretty frequently. We don't hear A.J. Styles complaining about Michelle McCool using his finisher (Styles Clash vs. the Faithbreaker), and she's a damn diva. (Although her husband being The Undertaker might help keep the heat off...) Randy Orton didn't say anything when Robbie E. tried using the RKO as his Jersey Shore Cutter, and Edge or Brock Lesnar didn't speak up when Gunner broke out a spear AND an F-5 to win the TV title.

Angle should be happy he's a big enough wrestler to copy moves from in the first place.

And speaking of being a big enough wrestler...

Kurt Angle needs to know better than to put himself in that situation. There are 5 recognizable names in TNA right now: Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Sting, Kurt Angle and Jeff Hardy, and Angle is the most in-shape and best wrestler of the bunch. For him to even be in the situation after what happened to Jeff is asinine and just flat out fucking stupid. TNA has a long road to meet the goals that Bischoff set personally, and having any negative press like this gives the public more reason to look at TNA as minor league and not worth their time. Maybe members of the IWC can dismiss DUIs and public drunkenness, and waking up in a prone car out of it, but casual fans don't want to bother watching train wrecks get in and out of the ring on a weekly basis.

 

[Slapjack3k]

Just about all moves are copied in this day and age. Damn near everyone has a DDT in their arsenal, you don't see Jake Roberts up in arms constantly.

I have to say though I'm not a fan of all this twitter drama between wrestlers. Leave the bickering to us fans!

 

[RavenChaos21]

Damn, it seems like social networking is the worst thing to happen to wrestling in the last 5 years or so.

 

[Zeven_Zion]

Amen to that, Zevon. Why Kurt got so offended is beyond me. Especially in the fact that he used the ankle lock first used by Ken Shamrock, and I don't remember who did rolling German Suplexes first, him or Benoit, both they both used them pretty frequently. We don't hear A.J. Styles complaining about Michelle McCool using his finisher (Styles Clash vs. the Faithbreaker), and she's a damn diva. (Although her husband being The Undertaker might help keep the heat off...) Randy Orton didn't say anything when Robbie E. tried using the RKO as his Jersey Shore Cutter, and Edge or Brock Lesnar didn't speak up when Gunner broke out a spear AND an F-5 to win the TV title.

Angle should be happy he's a big enough wrestler to copy moves from in the first place.

And speaking of being a big enough wrestler...

Kurt Angle needs to know better than to put himself in that situation. There are 5 recognizable names in TNA right now: Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Sting, Kurt Angle and Jeff Hardy, and Angle is the most in-shape and best wrestler of the bunch. For him to even be in the situation after what happened to Jeff is asinine and just flat out fucking stupid. TNA has a long road to meet the goals that Bischoff set personally, and having any negative press like this gives the public more reason to look at TNA as minor league and not worth their time. Maybe members of the IWC can dismiss DUIs and public drunkenness, and waking up in a prone car out of it, but casual fans don't want to bother watching train wrecks get in and out of the ring on a weekly basis.

Well, personally I think that if we want to be rational - we shouldn't care about DUI's and all that crap until it affects his in-ring work, or his mic work. We're fans, that's our job. Let him sort his life out. None of our business.

But I do tend to think that Wrestlemania bursted Angle's bubble to an extent. In TNA or not, you know these guys miss being at Wrestlemania. Hardy himself said that one of the reasons he came back WAS Wrestlemania. They love that feeling and I can't blame them. I suppose Angle let off some steam on Twitter by acting like a school girl on her period, and you know what - that's fine. But the way he responded, making this whole "my account got hacked" thing and then "I don't care if you believe me" is just blah. I thought Angle was this cyborg of a human being and it turns out he's pretty immature.

AJ Styles doesn't bitch that Michelle McCool is using HIS move. And it is his move, AJ Styles came up with The Styles Clash. Punk is using the springboard thingy. Robert Roode is using a spinebuster VERY similiar to what Triple H does. Storm does The Superkick and a "Codebreaker" every now and then. If anything Angle should be glad Orton considered his move to be cool looking and did it at Wrestlemania. It's not like he was dressed in a singlet, dropped the straps and started Woooooo-ing.

Honestly, as much as I dislike the WWE, I believe that they had WAY more important things to deal with at Wrestle-fucking-mania than take shots at Kurt fucking Angle who hasn't been with them for 5 years.

 

[ABMorales787]

Get arrested once, nobody really cares. Get arrested twice and you are suddenly a screw up. People's feelings for Kurt Angle summed up well here. He's been arrested twice in under the past 2 and a half years. The first time dealing with a woman that was causing all sorts of trouble and the second time, it would seem he was more buzzed than drunk. Now I personally frown upon alcohol and drugs with the rage of a thousand burning sun's, but I can understand when people look to go out to town for some relaxation at the bar for a bit. Kurt Angle becomes one of the few unlucky wrestlers to get caught and because of the incident two years ago, this huge stigma falls over him. I call BS. What's the difference between Kurt Angle and Jeff Hardy? Easy, Angle has no issues when on TV while Hardy's work became sloppy as well as his attitude. Are you seriously trying to tell me that Kurt Angle is the only troubled wrestler in history capable of keeping his "problems" away from his work? Jake Roberts, Scott Hall, Marty Jannety and Jeff Hardy all failed. Kurt Angle? Apparently he has an evil twin to catch bad rep with while he wrestles.

Also, nobody seems to have mentioned his calling out WWE over Twitter for the exesive use of his Ankle Lock, Angle Slam and Jack Swagger's similarities with him. Now everybody points to him and calls him drunk and shit. Namely Randy Orton and CM Punk. How really mature of people. Kurt may not have invented the maneuvers, but he did make them prominent in WWE and became synonymous with him. Then other wrestlers "pay homage" and not a single ounce of credit goes to him (or Ken Shamrock). Yeah, I'd be pretty beefed too if in no time there's 4 guys doing my Signature Moves and a guy acting just like me.

 

[Papa Pillman]

Honestly, I could care less what happens in Kurt's private life as long as it doesn't interfere with his on-screen work. As long as it doesn't reach Benoit-level proportions than it really isn't our business.

But, dude needs to stop making so many excuses, and man-up. We all know he still has substance abuse issues of some sort, and we all know his twitter account wasn't "hacked", that's way too convenient(maybe Cole should've tried that line).

As for the tweets themselves... very hypocritical to say the least. I mean everything has been done before to some extent, and Kurt's moveset is perhaps one of the worst from that perspective. His Ankle-lock was blatantly stolen from Shamrock, and his Rolling-germans were blantantly stolen from Benoit- and thats just a couple of examples.

 

[Kitten Cutter]

Honestly, I could care less what happens in Kurt's private life as long as it doesn't interfere with his on-screen work. As long as it doesn't reach Benoit-level proportions than it really isn't our business.

He's been arrested twice in under the past 2 and a half years. The first time dealing with a woman that was causing all sorts of trouble and the second time, it would seem he was more buzzed than drunk. Now I personally frown upon alcohol and drugs with the rage of a thousand burning sun's, but I can understand when people look to go out to town for some relaxation at the bar for a bit. Kurt Angle becomes one of the few unlucky wrestlers to get caught and because of the incident two years ago, this huge stigma falls over him.

Well, personally I think that if we want to be rational - we shouldn't care about DUI's and all that crap until it affects his in-ring work, or his mic work. We're fans, that's our job. Let him sort his life out. None of our business.

Here's the problem with the "none of our business" statements: it IS our business. Not only is Kurt Angle a public figure, but he's a big name in a company and an industry we all love. How many people here got depressed over what happened to Chris Benoit? I'm not saying deep personal familial feelings, but just that ill feeling in your stomach that someone you respected and looked up to just did something horrific? How many people felt embarassed when watching Jeff Hardy unable to even wrestle a main event? That's what I feel when wrestlers commit just baffling and stupid things like this. How long before he snaps and really beats someone up bad? How long before he pulls vehicular homicide because of his condition one late night? If we truly respect these guys and call them our heroes, we shouldn't just dismiss them because we don't know them. As fans, we're going to take it pretty hard if something bad happens to Angle or someone because of Angle. I'm not saying we can save them like fucking missionaries, but everyone reading knows that no matter how much we want to dismiss it like it's nothing special, we all will be sad if we pick up the paper and find out Kurt Angle is paralyzed for driving drunk.

But I digress. Onto something funnier...

Also, nobody seems to have mentioned his calling out WWE over Twitter for the exesive use of his Ankle Lock, Angle Slam and Jack Swagger's similarities with him. Now everybody points to him and calls him drunk and shit. Namely Randy Orton and CM Punk. How really mature of people. Kurt may not have invented the maneuvers, but he did make them prominent in WWE and became synonymous with him. Then other wrestlers "pay homage" and not a single ounce of credit goes to him (or Ken Shamrock). Yeah, I'd be pretty beefed too if in no time there's 4 guys doing my Signature Moves and a guy acting just like me.

Well, The Pope must piss you off too. Let's see, a black street preacher from Harlem...hmmm....sounds like Reverend Slick to me, and before Ric Flair was the Nature Boy, Buddy Rogers was. And before Jeff Jarrett owned TNA, he blatently ripped off Flair. And Kurt Angle was the All-American good guy, basically a heel version of both Hulk Hogan and Lex Luger. And sorry, but I don't remember Kurt Angle doing push-ups for his entrance (sounds more like Scott Steiner who also has a speech impediment) or using the gutwrench powerbomb (that's more Dr. Death Steve Williams), or doing the arrogant and proud collegiate athlete (that's more Christopher Nowinski). Swagger's ankle lock is much more off the ground than Kurt's because Swagger's height actually gives him a leverage advantage and makes it harder to crawl to the ropes, so if you want to get technical, Swagger has added his own spin to a submission move that's been used for years by many wrestlers.

Point is, there's nothing original in pro wrestling. People have copied gimmicks, storylines, moves and finishers for decades. Angle has been around long enough to know that and not make a big deal about it on a social network.

 

[Brian in Austin]

First off I will say that I'm the type of person who couldn't care less about what a wrestler, actor, athlete or public figure does in their spare time, frankly its none of my business, it only really bothers me when they bring their problems to the workplace (like Jeff Hardy). With that said I'm really starting to worry and wonder about Kurt Angle.

From what I've seen Kurt really can do no wrong in front of the camera, a great performer and probably one of my all time favorites. IMO he is a five tool player and has everything you need to be a success in wrestling.

Now its well known that Kurts private life over the last long while hasn't been that great. He has been arrested NUMEROUS times for being intoxicated while in a drivers seat, he's had some domestic disputes and has a restraining order from Rhaka Kahn. I know this is mostly old news but his tweets yesterday and how he said someone hacked his account and he didn't write those really got me thinking.

The truth is Kurt Angle always seems to have an excuse for whatever happens in his life. He wasn't drunk he just pulled over to get some sleep, someone hacked his twitter account, he was just driving around and just happened to show up by Rhaka Kahn, he wasn't drunk driving home he was just swerving a bit, ect. My point is Kurt Angle always has some excuse for everything bad that happens in his life, NOTHING is his fault in his eyes.

I'm sorry but from what I see it can only be one of 2 things:

1) Someone really has it out for Kurt Angle
2) Kurt's a ***k up in real life

Like I said before I don't care what he does in his spare time but considering how many times over the last 2-3 years Kurt has had issues and legal troubles it might be time to get the guy help. I know this has probably been said before but it all comes down to that I don't want another wrestler to become another wrestling tragedy. With the road he's going down he's either gonna wind up like the Dynamite Kid or he will wind up dead.

It would be nice if TNA helped him out (although I don't think its their responsibility) but I feel Kurt seriously needs help and needs to get his life back together. I don't know how much of the stories are BS or imbellished but it certainly is a cause for concern.

Kurt wrestling wise is like an unstoppable machine but if his personal situation isn't taken care of then eventually the machine will cease to work and I don't want that to happen to Kurt or anyone else. I feel Kurt needs to be held accountable for his actions (like many in TNA and wrestling in general) and if he isn't its only a matter of time until Kurt turns becomes another figure in a long line of wrestling tragedies.

Maybe I'm over analyzing and thinking too much, but I've seen behaviour like this before and from my experience it never ends well.

Well here we find ourselves once again having to discuss the misdeeds of yet another bad actor in TNA. Nevermind how bad the product is, they have several issues with personal character issues of their employees. So you had Jeff Hardy, then Kurt and Karen Angle, along with Jeff Hardy (whether it is/was a work or not it's a disgusting storyline, not to mention stupid!), and now Kurt Angle with his addiction issues once again rearing its ugly head. This is why guys like Hardy and Angle wound up in TNA in the first place. An inability to control themselves, while making excuses for themselves and blaming VKM for their problems. I'm no fan of WWE either concerning certain aspects of their product, but what I can give them credit for is how they manage their talent regarding character issues. While I don't believe problems don't exist, at least we don't have to hear about it every week like in TNA. At least they find ways to either control the behavior or keep it under wraps. In the end, that's good for them concerning the end product and how it is viewed by the public. Great PR and marketing. TNA? Not so much. Just more bumbling stupidity on the part of management who keeps signing talent with issues. You would think they'd get it at some point as VKM keeps letting the problem children go only to find them showing up in TNA and embarrassing themselves and TNA in general.

Kurt LIED! He flat out LIED now that we now of his plea arrangement. So now we all know that HE can't be trusted off camera. Nevermind that drug pusher/addict and liar that Jeff Hardy is. He's a given headcase. I for one hope they BOTH get help because they BOTH need it! Both are addicts and I hope for their welfare they get the help they need!

 

[Rayne]

This is gonna be like "Rayne's grab bag" here.

First off I will say that I'm the type of person who couldn't care less about what a wrestler, actor, athlete or public figure does in their spare time, frankly its none of my business, it only really bothers me when they bring their problems to the workplace (like Jeff Hardy). With that said I'm really starting to worry and wonder about Kurt Angle.

Well, you're here talking about it, so obviously, you do care. That's ok, because people should care. It's incredibly easy to say "oh, I don't care what they do", and wash your hands of any responsibility you may have from enjoying their entertainment over the years, the physical toll of which has resulted in countless overdose deaths, heart attacks in men in their 30's, suicides, and other 'before-their-time' deaths.

People should care, because in the end, they do. When Chris Benoit murdered his wife and son, how many people were playing the "his personal life is none of my business" card? He never brought his problems to the workplace; by the time they got there, he was already dead. Brian Pillman, Eddie Guerrero, Mike Awesome, Eddie Fatu (Umaga), so on and so forth- they never brought their problems to the workplace (ok, Pillman did, but not his drug problems), but they are no less dead for it. Waiting until they've completely fucked up to care about someone is completely dishonest as a person; if you're going to mourn the tragedies of this world, you have to at least be doing something while you see them start to happen.

I wouldn't worry about Kurt Angle, the guy had one little run in with the five-0 recently and he was apparently "sober" enough to talk his way out of a DUI which isn't easy to do.

And yes he's had his issues with steriods and pain killers in the past but what pro wrestler hasn't. As far as the mania tweets, I believe that his acount was hacked, why would he retract his statements so fast, orton should feel stupid for jumping the gun and childishly responding to something Angle didn't even do, and as far as C.M. Punk goes he literally defines the word doushe. Lets not forget Angles an Olympian, pretty impresive.

Actually, if the cops can't prove- to a court- that you were operating a vehicle, you can't be charged with DUI. It's hard to get away with a DUI if you've been pulled over while driving, because the officer has you on videotape driving the vehicle. In Kurt's case, he left his car in the median, got out and, most smartly of all, took the keys with them. (If they were in the ignition, most states consider that 'operation' now.) To anyone with half a fucking brain, he was driving drunk. I can guarantee you that with Kurt's status in media, several lawyers over the years have told him to never, ever confess anything to the police.

(Which is a smart move for anyone. Police are paid to create a case to hand to a prosecutor; by law, they are legally prohibited from taking statements you make in your own defense and using them to help establish your innocence. The adversarial system sucks ass. You are not required to answer any questions they ask of you beyond your name, and depending on state, address. Know your rights!)

Kurt didn't "talk his way out of a DUI". The officer didn't have enough evidence to arrest him for DUI. He just got a reckless driving charge- but to the die-hard fans of TNA, much like Jeff Hardy's drug trial, it's an OK charge because it won't affect his appearance on TV.

Why'd he retract his tweets so fast? My guess would be more along the lines that he said something, hoping to fire up the-always-eager-for-a-fight TNA audience, and it backfired on him. If he had tried that stunt before his not-DUI, I bet he would have gotten a lot more support, but then again, I don't think he would have tried a stunt like that if it wasn't for his not-DUI. It was a way of trying to fire up "Team Kurt" again, without realizing that for right now, most people just want to see Kurt Angle shut the fuck up and wrestle. He can start throwing stones again when the glass house he lives in isn't so visible.

Punk should mind his own business and stop getting involved in everyone else's crap.

Ah, you're right and you're wrong here. I see what CM Punk is trying to do on the Twitter, assuming he has an end goal and isn't just blowing steam- he's trying to further establish his own fanbase by attaching himself to more established wrestlers. If he's meaning to do it, it's craftily smart (although he wouldn't be the first person to have it backfire, not by a long shot)- normally you'd have to work a program with them to attach yourself to their popularity, now, he can achieve proportional results without having to use TV time. (I say 'proportional', because no matter what, you're not going to get the same boost from having a Twitter war that you would from having one segment a week for three months.

He's doing the same thing with Steve Austin, although that is more obviously playful. CM Punk's a crafty one- he didn't get this far removed from jumping onto mattresses just because he could throw a pretty looking head kick.

Kurt should really shut the fuck up by now. I mean, he is great and all, but stop being such children. Seriously, I've seen more bickering between wrestlers in a week than I have seen on these forums in a year.

Yup. Right now Kurt should be helping himself to a huge slice of Humble Pie. Kurt, everyone who's willing to appraise the situation honestly knows you drove your car onto the median strip drunk. People are willing to forgive stuff like that pretty quickly, but the public wants to see some degree of recognition that you know you made a mistake. People call that "keeping a low profile". You have enough fame that if you keep quiet for a month on the interwebz, people aren't going to forget about you entirely. But right now, the more you try to pick fights, the more people are reminded about your other Sheenesque behavior recently.

On that note, why doesn't TNA have a PR department? I mean, they almost certainly do, but what are they paying them for? It certainly isn't to keep Dixie's Blackberry out of her hands.....