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 manager under contract to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.
Early life
She graduated from Hempfield Area High School in Greensburg, Pennsylvania in 1990. She can be seen alongside husband Kurt Angle in the ring at WWF Unforgiven 2001. She was identified as family, but never mentioned as his wife.
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 TNA 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 (a direct reference to Booker T's and Sharmell's last WWE gimmick, where they were self-believed royalty). 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 AJ 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). Since then, hints of a relationship with A.J. Styles were hinted, after Kurt continued to ignore Karen, even having her ejected from her ringside seat 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, the latter element excluded whenever she came out by herself. But during the "separation from Kurt Angle" storyline, she would debut a new generic theme on the March 20, 2008 edition of iMPACT! when introduced by A.J. Styles.
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.