Karen Jarrett
| Karen Angle | |
|---|---|
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| Born | October 12, 1972 Greensburg, Pennsylvania |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Karen Angle |
| Trained by | Kurt Angle |
| Debut | 2007 |
Karen Angle (nèe Smedley) (born October 12 1972) is a professional wrestling valet under contract to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. She is the manager and real life wife of Kurt Angle.
Early life
She graduated from Hempfield Area High School in Greensburg, Pennsylvania in 1990.
Career
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2007–current)
Karen Angle was introduced in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) in the summer of 2007 when Samoa Joe and Kurt Angle were feuding for an all-at-once Triple Crown Championship (Kurt held the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, and Joe held the X division and TNA World Tag Team Championship). Karen was supposedly wanting to divorce Kurt, claiming that he was emotionally abusive toward both her and their children.[2] At the Hard Justice pay per view, however, Karen betrayed Joe during his match with her husband, resulting in Kurt winning the Triple Crown.[3]
In the following weeks, her character began to develop into a manipulative vamp, such as when Karen claimed that Sting slapped her at No Surrender when, in fact, he had not. This led to Kurt and Sting losing the Tag Team titles to Team Pacman after Kurt executed the Olympic slam on Sting. Another feud then erupted between Kurt Angle and Sting in which Sting had Karen arrested for violating a restraining order and Kurt stalking Sting's son. At Genesis, Karen persuaded A.J. Styles and Tomko into helping Kurt retain the TNA World Heavyweight Championship during the tag team match for the title.
In late 2007, Karen began to have issues with Booker T's wife Sharmell, claiming there was only room for one "queen" in TNA. This led to a catfight at the December 12 iMPACT! tapings, where Karen suffered a broken foot.[4] She did not miss any time as a result of TNA's taping schedule.
On the February 14 edition of iMPACT, Karen was scheduled to renew her wedding vows to Kurt, but in the storyline, she was pronounced married to Styles after the priest, who had just been knocked down by Samoa Joe, awoke and married the two, mistaking Styles for Kurt. Recently she proposed to separate from Kurt Angle (Kayfabe). The following week, there was a sitdown interview with Karen. She stated that she was happy about the separation. She also stated that she had found "someone else" on the TNA roster who treats her like she deserves to be treated. Angle will return to TNA television at Lockdown.
In wrestling
- Wrestlers managed
- Entrance theme
- Karen Angle used Kurt Angle's "Gold Metal" composed by Dale Oliver and featuring a rap from Tha Trademarc (though, when she comes out by herself, the Trademarc rap is excluded from the theme).But, she stopped using it because of her "separation" with Kurt Angle
- But on the March 20th edition of Impact! Karen came out with a generic new theme that will probably be only used during the separation with Kurt Angle storyline.
Personal life
She has two children with Kurt Angle; a daughter named Kyra Angle (born December 2 2002) and son named Kody Angle (born October 26 2006).
References
- ^ "Karen Angle Bio at IMDb.com".
- ^ "Impact 08-02-07 Results". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-09-03.
- ^ "Hard Justice 2007 Results". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-09-03.
- ^ Mike Johnson (2007-12-12). "Top TNA Knockout Suffers Broken Foot". PWInsider. Retrieved 2007-12-18.