{"id":16443,"date":"2011-09-29T23:31:21","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T03:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=16443"},"modified":"2011-09-29T23:31:21","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T03:31:21","slug":"kurt-angle-ufc-deal-tnawwe-shocker-breaking-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=16443","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Angle UFC DEAL: TNA\/WWE SHOCKER \u2013 BREAKING NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=16443\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8974\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"kurt angle header1\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/kurt-angle-header1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>By Geno McGahee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kurt Angle, the current TNA wrestling champion is set to defend his title at the pay per view \u201cBound for Glory,\u201d but he now admits that he was very close to a deal with Dana White for a run in the UFC. On two different occasions, Angle sat down with White to iron out a deal and they just couldn\u2019t agree to a starting date, but there was an opponent selected.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The man that Dana had in mind was the backyard brawler, Kimbo Slice. Angle had agreed but Dana wanted to bring in Angle when he felt unprepared and the deal fell apart, and Angle remained in pro wrestling and Kimbo ran his deal out in the UFC, but had the cards been different, we would have been treated to a novelty match to remember.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Family-Secret-Forris-Day-Jr\/dp\/B004GLZ4YG\/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1309134704&amp;sr=1-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"family secret ad pic\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/family-secret-ad-pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/BookStore\/BookDetail.aspx?Book=232300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"boxing interviews ad bio\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/boxing-interviews-ad-bio1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><a href=\" http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/RingsideReport1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"family secret ad pic\" src=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/twitter-ad-link.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?page_id=1371\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"advertise header2\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/advertise-header2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Geno McGahee Kurt Angle, the current TNA wrestling champion is set to defend his title at the pay per view \u201cBound for Glory,\u201d but he now admits that he was very close to a deal with Dana White for a run in the UFC. On two different occasions, Angle sat down with White to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[185,945,3012,736],"class_list":["post-16443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-dana-white","tag-kimbo-slice","tag-kurt-angle","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}