Funny Or Die has done a lot of things to warm my heart — pissing off Tom Brady, making Kris Humphries call himself a douchebag and threatening to kill Blake Griffin with a miniature puppet version of himself — but none have made me quite as happy as watching 1996 Olympic gold medalist and pro wrestler Kurt Angle trying to get back into the 2012 games.
The best part is that it’s based on real events … the 43-year old Angle tried his best to make the 2012 team, but came up short due to hamstring and knee injuries. Actually, I take that back. The BEST part is watching him Angle Slam a badminton player through a totally unexplained freestanding table and/or bashing a fencer in the face with a steel chair. God knows I would’ve been one of those random wrestling fans who showed up with signs to watch Kurt Angle play table tennis if I could’ve been.
Video is below. It’s more Funny than Die, but there’s a lot of dying going on anyway.
Fun fact: every athlete getting beaten up in this clip is better at pretending to be hurt than Rob Van Dam.
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So RVD is probably high as a kite during this what is Kurt’s excuse for looking glass eyed and dazed… one too many hits in the head?
Nah, just drunk. It’s okay, he drove himself to the film set.
They really should avoid putting pictures of 1996 Kurt Angle next to current, pudgy face Kurt Angle.
Also, I feel a better ending would have been him and RVD sitting in his apartment with RVD shrugging and saying “Oh well, we tried, want to get destroyed on pills and high-grade medicinal weed?”
What do you think gave them the idea to dress Kurt up in drag?
BRANDON TOOK A SHOT AT RVD! EVERYBODY DRINK!
This is the closest this site will ever come to TNA coverage
I like TNA, but what is there to cover? “This episode of TNA was good because they had wrestling and the wrestling was fine.” or “This episode of TNA was bad because there was lots of Hulk Hogan and every match had a Dusty Finish. Also, AJ Styles and Christopher Daniels wrestled. Again. Bully Ray was still good.”
I mean, I like TNA but there is literally nothing anyone can say about it. It is what it is.
I would happily cover TNA if posts about TNA got web traffic, which they don’t.
note: this is also why this blog isn’t 80% me going on and on about local promotions
@THESTINGER – For real, I could watch Kofi Kingston and Dolph Ziggler have an entire rehashed feud and be fine, but every time I see AJ Styles and Christopher Daniels in a one on one match my brain just goes dark for 15-20 minutes. I like both of them, too!
I’m going to go out on a limb here, and say something nice on the internet. Angle looked healthier than he’s looked in a long time. He didn’t look like Skeletor with cancer.
When Vince sees this in 2017 the WWE Universe is going to be in for some hilarious vignettes
His first mistake was hanging out with Rob Van Dam, that’s where the whole mess started.
Oh it’s true – it’s damn true.
They have mens beach volleyball? I’ll be damned.
First the obligatory RVD is terrible comment, followed by how much I enjoy the beach volleyball trials being held on an actual beach
Wrestling needs more power walking clotheslines.
Heath Slater agrees