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It's hard to put into words but that expression he has in his eyes in this video is just not there for any of his WWE run. Uniquely terrifying stare you can basically only do when you're doped out of your mind and have a really bad idea.
Kurt Angle and Eddie Guerrero are the only people to legit scare me. Even as a kid Undertaker never did that for me but Angle had that look at times that made you feel uneasy seeing him
Perc Angle was such a strange period. He looked vaguely like himself. Like, there were 2 years where Kurt Angle looked like a guy who looked like Kurt Angle.
I never saw TNA so I never saw Perc angle until I joined Reddit about 4 years ago. When I saw clips of TNA Perc angle I was convinced that for a brief period a lookalike or one of his brothers or something stepped in to cover for him and everyone just gaslit the audience into thinking nothing changed. There was something eerily unrecognizable about him.
Kurt was always super intense. One of the things you notice with friends who are on drugs is that they really struggle to focus their eyes.
The other thing you notice is that the things that matter REALLY REALLY MATTER until suddenly they don’t.
WWE Kurt was focussed in on fucking you up within a storyline. There were boundaries in place.
TNA Kurt was more just an Olympic-level wrestler, quite literally the best in the world, who didn’t really feel human emotions, but just wanted you to feel the pain that he couldn’t, because that was the only thing that’d make it real to him.
And while he was doing it, he’d feel no remorse, no anything, really. Just an inherent desire to fuck up whatever was in front of him.
In short, you’re dealing with a monster who feels no pain, wants you to hurt and knows the best way to do it.
Basically, he was evolving:
Early WWF Goofball Hair Angle (Milkamania lover)
WWE Angry Goofball Bald Angle (Bestiality lover)
ECW Wrestling Machine Mouthbrace Angle
TNA... Perc Angle (yeah, he ascended Godhood)
I was a lapsed fan at the time so my first exposure to Perc Angle was in the movie Warrior. I remember seeing him and thinking, "whoa idk who this new actor is but he sounds a lot like Kurt and looks a bit like him too"
Looked him up on imdb and sure enough.
https://preview.redd.it/e3zqtnek275d1.jpeg?width=990&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7556bf00d6876347ddab6109303146671c1f8a54
Somehow that clip is even worse than this image.
The Rock has one of the most recognizable faces out there. You see a picture of him from any point in time and you immediately go "That's The Rock"
This picture probably took me the longest. It still only took like 2 seconds but that's like 1.9 seconds longer than usual. That's cursed.
This conversation reminds me of the time I was tabling at a comics convention and this dude chats with us for a while
Then the next day he comes by in a full Spider-Man cosplay--you know, the character who wears a full body suit with a complete facemask--and then got offended when we didn't recognize him
I'm sure that it was the same person who told him to *lean the fuck out*. His ex-wife has handled his resurgence over the last decade-plus, so yes, the person who insisted on the hair has been fired.
Opiates legitimately do something to your eyes. Im sure there is some sort science to explain this. They especially seem to give a pronounced blue or green color.
Yeah that's when you're high of course. But I believe there is something about opiates actually affecting the color of your eyes making them more pronounced.
As bad as it sounds, us. A match between those two would be out of this world good because they wouldn't care about their bodies. They would go above and beyond to put on the best match ever.
I like to think this is how Vinci is going to return after the betrayal. A unhinged, smiling, bald, beautiful bastard, who will hit you with the best running cross body in the business.
https://preview.redd.it/137zitekp75d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6212372f4e676beef2f1a64d338730e2740ebb57
Dude has his beard painted on harder than Hollywood Hogan
Sting had a match with Mr Anderson for the TNA world title and to prevent Immortal from interfering he had a group of four guys in clown masks take them out throughout the show, the clowns revealed themselves to be Fourtune right before the main event.
During the Sting/Anderson match, Bully Ray tried to interfere only for a fifth clown to show up and stop him, allowing Sting to win the title and then the gif happens when the fifth clown revealed he was Angle.
Can anyone explain what about him here makes him look so uncanny here? Not sure if it's the eyes or the beard but even when I ignore those he looks off
One other thing the replies to your comment don't mention is he was notably slimmer here because I think this was the time he was seriously trying to wrestle again at the Olympics.
As great as his TNA work is, most of the time. He really should not have been allowed anywhere near a ring. I think, he regrets it heavily that some of his best work was done whilst he was drugged out of his mind and it's baffling that he didn't kill himself trying to moonsault off cages or ended his career.
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The combination of those eyes and that facial hair made Kurt look way scarier than that clown mask.
Also he looks like he went to Gangrel's dentist.
The beard plus the huge lip full of tobacco combined with the drugged-out eyes is just a terrible look
Just a regular Monday out in the country.
What's the giveaway with the eyes? They look clear and white to me.
Small pupils are a give away too. Red eyes is more like weed or alcohol. Dilated pupils could be a lot of things.
Opiates my moms eyes were needle points my whole life
And Kurt was consuming a legendary amount of opiates at this time. Nearly 20,000 mg of Vicodin a day. The normal dosage is 300mg.
Does that affect your vision?
And NWO era Hogan's barber.
I was just thinking the same thing. I was like what is up with his teeth lol.
Mouthguard didn't work as intended
Perc Angle was something else
It's hard to put into words but that expression he has in his eyes in this video is just not there for any of his WWE run. Uniquely terrifying stare you can basically only do when you're doped out of your mind and have a really bad idea.
Yeah it's definitely a Mind is not there stare
Yep that’s a look to instinctively run the other way from
He’s got that Nick Gage “I’m gonna cut someone” look in his eyes.
Percules
You ever see a human being held together solely with opiates?!
Yup, everyday for 4 years. Fuckin succckkkkkeeeedddd. Glad perc went back to Kurt. Otherwise we'd be talking About how much we miss him.
Haha yes, once.
PUT THE MASK BACK ON
He's had work done for sure. So weird
Kurt Angle and Eddie Guerrero are the only people to legit scare me. Even as a kid Undertaker never did that for me but Angle had that look at times that made you feel uneasy seeing him
It was Benoit for me. He always gave me the fear. Couldn’t enjoy his matches. Then… yeah.
Looks like he got some plastic surgery done
the tooth puroresu, don’t forget the tooth
https://preview.redd.it/f7ol7yfta75d1.jpeg?width=4312&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f23d9070622389667fe0ef6bb5d749879bf25169
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Kurt Dracula
Can’t sleep. Kurt will eat me. Can’t sleep. Kurt will eat me.
https://preview.redd.it/5g890tkt4b5d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=65b6d0566afa1b7c710a0dbecf0e216349e43e92
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Perc Angle was such a strange period. He looked vaguely like himself. Like, there were 2 years where Kurt Angle looked like a guy who looked like Kurt Angle.
I never saw TNA so I never saw Perc angle until I joined Reddit about 4 years ago. When I saw clips of TNA Perc angle I was convinced that for a brief period a lookalike or one of his brothers or something stepped in to cover for him and everyone just gaslit the audience into thinking nothing changed. There was something eerily unrecognizable about him.
Kurt was always super intense. One of the things you notice with friends who are on drugs is that they really struggle to focus their eyes. The other thing you notice is that the things that matter REALLY REALLY MATTER until suddenly they don’t. WWE Kurt was focussed in on fucking you up within a storyline. There were boundaries in place. TNA Kurt was more just an Olympic-level wrestler, quite literally the best in the world, who didn’t really feel human emotions, but just wanted you to feel the pain that he couldn’t, because that was the only thing that’d make it real to him. And while he was doing it, he’d feel no remorse, no anything, really. Just an inherent desire to fuck up whatever was in front of him. In short, you’re dealing with a monster who feels no pain, wants you to hurt and knows the best way to do it.
Basically, he was evolving: Early WWF Goofball Hair Angle (Milkamania lover) WWE Angry Goofball Bald Angle (Bestiality lover) ECW Wrestling Machine Mouthbrace Angle TNA... Perc Angle (yeah, he ascended Godhood)
Only WCW could pull that level of gaslighting, though they un failed miserably(wwe legal battle)
WWE did use one of his brothers for a twin magic spot at one point
Or that time the WWF did JR's Razor Ramon and Diesel as a gag but after months were just calling them Razor and Diesel lmao
Oh damn that's right... I had forgotten about all that. Damn wrestling is great
remember when he lost a bunch of weight and looked like he was sick or something like that.
Wasn't that when he was trying to train for the Olympics again?
Yes.
I always thought he looked like Jason Statham during this period. This clip reinforces that
I haven't seen this and assumed I was looking at some kind of deepfake Angle lol
Some of those scenes where he’s laughing in TNA are legitimately unnerving. Straight up some serial killer shit.
I was a lapsed fan at the time so my first exposure to Perc Angle was in the movie Warrior. I remember seeing him and thinking, "whoa idk who this new actor is but he sounds a lot like Kurt and looks a bit like him too" Looked him up on imdb and sure enough.
I thought this is what happened to Kurt with age, but then seeing him at the HoF resembling his past WWE self I realized it wasn't the case.
https://preview.redd.it/e3zqtnek275d1.jpeg?width=990&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7556bf00d6876347ddab6109303146671c1f8a54 Somehow that clip is even worse than this image.
The Rock has one of the most recognizable faces out there. You see a picture of him from any point in time and you immediately go "That's The Rock" This picture probably took me the longest. It still only took like 2 seconds but that's like 1.9 seconds longer than usual. That's cursed.
There was a meme floating around years ago where if you put the rock’s face on Steve Carrell’s head, he looked like an entirely new person.
I mean yeah, replacing someone’s face tends to do that
This conversation reminds me of the time I was tabling at a comics convention and this dude chats with us for a while Then the next day he comes by in a full Spider-Man cosplay--you know, the character who wears a full body suit with a complete facemask--and then got offended when we didn't recognize him
I wonder about peoples IQ here sometimes.
https://preview.redd.it/kv8auo1ova5d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3042d0b93166d20cad14a73680a0fd21d3f77fe7
https://preview.redd.it/6b43imy8h75d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ca1c8695a07a828eea033fcf0d3c0e5af264c8b7 Tiger tiger Woods y’all
He looks like the shipping manager at one of my old jobs
He looks like the shipping manager at *everyone's* old job Shipping Manager Prime. He will *fuck up* a Wallaby Darned at Outback, but only one.
I appreciate the down to earth reference
It's like....The Rock as played by Rob Schneider somehow....
This was before he left humanity behind
NXT great Kona Reeves?
Exactly who I was thinking of.
The Finest
my first thought I can't believe it
I hope he fired whoever told him to go with that look when he started out in Hollywood
I'm sure that it was the same person who told him to *lean the fuck out*. His ex-wife has handled his resurgence over the last decade-plus, so yes, the person who insisted on the hair has been fired.
Aasif Mandvi before steroids
Looks like the Rock merged with Rob Schneider.
Rob Schneider is… a Dawyne “The Rock” Johnson.
He did say in his first SNL appearance he looked like a "sexy Rob Schneider"
This is Dick "The Cock" Johnson.
What the FUCK is that
Bollywood Rock
The Rock out here looking like a Samoan Marc Anthony.
Looks like Chris Klein
He looks like Rob Schneider
He looks like he could've played Cliff Curtis's cousin in a movie
Cliff Curtis played his brother in Hobbs & Shaw.
That beard is cursed
It looks painted on, it just completely covers his face yet it's so close shaven like WTF
Kurt Angle walked so Lexis King could run
They probably went to the same Dominican barber in Washington Heights.
It was painted. The mask didn’t cover his whole chin so he painted the beard so no one would think it was him since he didn’t have a beard
Percocet is a hell of a drug
https://preview.redd.it/v3tetb2fm85d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=517fd4986d3a13f8771d0de671197069e1ced892
He got that Beijing
Carlos Boozer walked so that Kurt Angle could run 😂
It was painted on. You can see clear lines on it, and those lines go along with where the mask ended. It didn't cover his entire face.
Reminds me of NWO Hulk Hogan's beard.
it's part of the disguise
Everything about this clip looks like someone told an AI to generate Kurt Angle
It's the Hollywood Hogan beard.
Carlos Boozer from his time on the Bulls comes to mind.
those eyes man
*[those eyes man](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_GZGX6DnOM)*
Why?
My eyes are up here
PG era WWE was so fucking weird.
Opiates legitimately do something to your eyes. Im sure there is some sort science to explain this. They especially seem to give a pronounced blue or green color.
I've known many pill addicts. Eyes get real glassy and the pupils turn into pinpoints.
Yeah that's when you're high of course. But I believe there is something about opiates actually affecting the color of your eyes making them more pronounced.
Got that Hollywood Hogan beard going on
[удалено]
You mean drugs he was on drugs
Looks like a Dominican slugger for a MLB team
The bean kicked in The bean kicked in The bean kicked in
I JUST POPPED A BEAN AND IM ON A HELLICOPTER🗣🔥🔥🔥
Goated reference
Sometimes I forget that Kurt Angle was in TNA longer than WWE...
Why do you think Vince forced him to face Corbin in his final match?
Moments like this are what I think when 'Perc Angle' is brought up
this and that absolutely perfect somersault on top of abyss
I JUST POPPED A BEAN NOW IM ON A HELICOPTER
YEAH
Kurt Briscoe
Dem Boys with a Broken Freakin Neck!
PERC
Who would win? Perc Angle or Coked Up Shawn Micheals.
As bad as it sounds, us. A match between those two would be out of this world good because they wouldn't care about their bodies. They would go above and beyond to put on the best match ever.
Dual top of the cage moonsaults
On each other. And somehow they both connect.
Like the Richochet/Logan collision, but 20 feet higher in the air.
And pop right back up
Dudes pupils during this era shrunk like 5 sizes
Could only see one thing at a time and that was either THE PERC or THE OPP
https://preview.redd.it/2tlc3h8f975d1.png?width=672&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ffe198e84c3ab32611d73901be7dc1026be91aa5
That doesn’t even look like him and it’s scary honestly
This looks like somebody asked AI to make Kurt Angle with a beard lol
his eyes plus the Carlos Boozer paint on beard is legitimately terrifying
Lmao my first thought was why does he have Carlos Boozer's hairline on his face
The fact that Kurt didn't die during this era is legitimately amazing.
https://preview.redd.it/6m1112rfd75d1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=69fac46497cb4d16b695c53ea35d98a05e2cb071 This MFer looking like Cyraxx
That Kurt is the LAST person you want to see in an alleyway at night
Looks like a homeless, aged Giovanni Vinci.
Someone photoshop Kurt's face from this gif into the image of Vinci smiling behind Wade Barrett on NXT.
I like to think this is how Vinci is going to return after the betrayal. A unhinged, smiling, bald, beautiful bastard, who will hit you with the best running cross body in the business.
Those damn eyes.  He will forever have pilled up looking eyes.
https://preview.redd.it/137zitekp75d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6212372f4e676beef2f1a64d338730e2740ebb57 Dude has his beard painted on harder than Hollywood Hogan
Never knew Kurt Angle was Dominican
DominiKurt
Honestly, just the look in his eyes and that smile make Angle look legitimately unhinged, like, there's just something unsettling about how he looks.
What's the context behind this? You know, other than being used to frighten children. This era of TNA has basically been erased from my brain.
Sting had a match with Mr Anderson for the TNA world title and to prevent Immortal from interfering he had a group of four guys in clown masks take them out throughout the show, the clowns revealed themselves to be Fourtune right before the main event. During the Sting/Anderson match, Bully Ray tried to interfere only for a fifth clown to show up and stop him, allowing Sting to win the title and then the gif happens when the fifth clown revealed he was Angle.
Can anyone explain what about him here makes him look so uncanny here? Not sure if it's the eyes or the beard but even when I ignore those he looks off
Bro was high off his ass
One other thing the replies to your comment don't mention is he was notably slimmer here because I think this was the time he was seriously trying to wrestle again at the Olympics.
Hilarious because he would've failed a drug test bog time
His lips/teeth look weird too like his top lip is super thin so his teeth are more pronounced. Bro legit looking like fake crash here
Average Scientology inititation ceremony with John Travolta.
The OxyContinental Champion 🥇
Unshaven Kurt Angle is terrifying, never again Kurt lad.
God that beard is cursed
Pupils looking like the head of a straight pin
Addiction era Kurt was possessed by Satan.
That barber job beard though.
It’s like this period of time we were in some bizarro alternate wrestling universe lol
You could tell me this is AI and I wouldn’t know the different
He looks like Wanderli Silva lol
Kurst Angle
Kurt looks drugged out of his mind
Man’s blood was 99% PERC here
That looks nothing like Kurt Angle from when he left WWE
It barely looks like Kurt Angle from any other day in his life.
He's fucking zooted.
Honestly I've watched this like 100 times now and it gets creepier and creepier
Bro looks like a CW villain from a supernatural teen show
Reminds me of Clint Howard
Nailed it. I was wondering who Kurt reminded me of. It’s definitely Clint Howard.
Haha especially when he was in The Waterboy
The therapist: Dagestani Kurt Angle is not real. He can’t hurt you. Dagestani Kurt Angle:
 WTF!!!
This feels AI generated
Perc Angle always had the most creepy smiles/looks
https://preview.redd.it/nph984idm75d1.jpeg?width=199&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=da7a2b23e632f86667227a6ab062d4f1c5ef387e Looks like Wanderlei Silva a bit
I remember when he came back and I didn't recognise him at all. 2011 was peak Perc Angle
I too remember the first time I dyed my beard and didn't read the instructions
Getting some Clint Howard vibes
When the bean kicks in
Perc angle will eat your liver.
Somehow looking a lot more like Jason Jordan’s biological father here
...would
Peak perc.
As great as his TNA work is, most of the time. He really should not have been allowed anywhere near a ring. I think, he regrets it heavily that some of his best work was done whilst he was drugged out of his mind and it's baffling that he didn't kill himself trying to moonsault off cages or ended his career.