Kurt Angle signs with TNA Wrestling

September 25, 2006

Professional wrestling promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) announced last night during their No Surrender Pay-Per-View event that Olympic gold medalist Kurt Angle has signed an exclusive contract with the company. The deal comes just shortly after Angle, 37, was released by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), with both sides citing "personal issues" as the cause of his release. TNA also used the Pay-Per-View to announce that the weekly television show TNA Impact will be moving from it's current timeslot of Thursdays at 11PM, to 9PM, starting November 16.

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) is an American professional wrestling promotion, founded by Jeff Jarrett and his father Jerry Jarrett in May 2002 and now owned by Panda Energy International. The company, which trades as TNA Entertainment, LLC, operates out of Nashville, Tennessee, with an office in Orlando, Florida.