#452 Mark Angle - 5x Fargo Champ & 3x All American

Wrestling Changed My Life (Wrestling Podcast)

Wrestling Changed My Life

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🗓️ 13 August 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Mark Angle is a 3x All-American and 5x Fargo champion. He was one of the dominant lightweight wrestlers in the late 1990s, battling the likes of Michael Lightner and Doug Schwab. Mark wrestled for Clarion and was a 1x PIAA state champ. His Uncle Kurt Angle was an Olympic Gold Medalist and WWE star. * This Episode is presented by CauseMatch. Fundraise smarter, and widen your donor base and inspire larger gifts with peer-to-peer fundraising provided by CauseMatch. Go to https://lp.causematch.com/wrestling-clubs-demo/ to schedule your first peer-to-peer fundraising campaign.

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0:00.0	I didn't live in a P.A. State Title. I think I went five or four longer titles before I
0:04.9	wanted a penance of the P.I.A. State Title.
0:07.0	We can adore anything and adapt and pivot and change.
0:15.8	Wrestling gave us that ability.
0:17.8	I would say nothing in life has impacted me or the things wrestling has taught me in
0:22.6	terms of self-reflection, resilience.
0:26.0	Toughness. Some guys have it, some guys don't.
0:28.8	Adversity, 100% how to pick myself up and be a man after I failed.
0:34.2	And everything that is shaped my life and where I'm at today would not be there without
0:39.9	the values and basically the lessons I've learned to the sport of wrestling.
0:44.5	For me, wrestling is saying my life because it allowed me to focus and channel my energy.
0:51.5	We're fortunate if you wrestled because if you wrestled, natural talent helps.
0:58.0	But it's 5% of the ingredient. It pales in comparison to heart and technique and effort.
1:06.3	It humbled me, taught me humility. Nothing can humble you more than wrestling.
1:11.6	I think it's the learning to adapt, right? You learn how to adapt, you learn how to solve
1:16.8	problems.
1:18.1	If I look back my time, that's good wrestling. If you give me one thing more than anything
1:21.9	else, it's toughness.
1:23.9	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the Wrestling Change My Life podcast.
1:28.5	This is your host, Ryan Warner, coming to you from Chicago, I.L.
1:33.8	Our guest today is Mark Angle, 3-10 All-American for Clarean in the 90s, 5-time Fargo champ,
1:43.4	his uncle Kurt Angle, Olympic gold medalist, really enjoyed having Mark on and I hope
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