I was doing my normal daily thing today. I got home from work, and started going on the wrestling websites like I normally do. I noticed something today, something that made me question a lot of things in the wrestling community. As I tuned into the newest video on www.tnawrestling.com, they were hyping the rematch between the newly crowned TNA world champion Samoa Joe and Kurt Angle. Near the end of the video they said that Kurt Angle will be going for his thirteenth world championship. So I checked my sources, and realized that he has been the world champion 10 times between WWE, TNA and IWGP. But this is not the first time I've noticed a wrestling promotion giving a wrestler more championships between the respective brands that they have been a part of.

Kurt Angle won his first world title in the WWE from The Rock in October 2000. He won the WCW title from Booker T in July 2001. Later in his career he defeated Steve Austin, The Big Show and Brock Lesnar for his third, fourth and fifth championship respectively. His last World Title in the WWE was won in a 20 man over the top rope battle royal on smackdown, eliminating Mark Henry last.

He later jumped ship to TNA. Very early on in his TNA career, he won the NWA world title against Christian Cage and Sting. He would go on to win the newly fashioned TNA world title in the King of the Moutain match in June of 2007. He lost the TNA world title at Bound for Glory against Sting, only to win it back on the next addition of iMPACT! Also in his recent time in TNA, he won the IWGP world title from Brock Lesnar, in Japan.

Another one that has me baffled is Ric Flair. Their is no doubt in my mind that Ric Flair will go down as one of the greatest of all time. He has defeated some of the greatest of all time for world titles. His list of casualties includes the likes of Dusty Rhodes, Harley Race, Kevin Von Erich, Hulk Hogan, Sting, Ricky Steamboat amongst others. He also won the 1992 Royal Rumble to win his first of two WWE world title's. However, at the end of WCW, he was billed as a fifteen time world heaviweight champion. When Flair made his return to the WWE, he was magically billed as a sixteen time world champion.

I checked my sources, and did my homework. If you do not want to count the one world title he won in a small promotion in Missouri, he is actually a Twentyone time world champion between NWA, WCW and WWE. If you do not believe me here's a link....

http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/r/ric-flair.html

I am going to end this blog with a couple of questions. Why would they say Kurt Angle has more championships than actually recorded? Does TNA not have enough faith that he is over as a legitimate veteran of the business? Also, why not mention that Ric Flair, on of the greatest of all time, is actually a Twentyone time world champion? Why would TNA make false accusations to put over their top heels?

I think that Kurt Angle is an extremely credible champion, and I see no need to put out false claims that he has won more world titles than he actually has. I also think that Ric Flair's twentyone title reigns is untouchable, and that could help to put him more over as THE greatest of all time.

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