Famous Athletes

Famous Athletes

Rulon Gardner. A gold medalist in the 2000 Olympic games, Gardner is also known as a man who cheated death on multiple occasions. He's been shot with an arrow and survived subzero temperatures. We're assuming he wrestled the Grim Reaper and won.

Kurt Angle. Angle won the gold medal in Atlanta in the 1996 Olympics and in the 1995 World Championships in Atlanta. Don't fight the Angle in Atlanta is what we're trying to say. He later parlayed that into a career in professional wrestling.

This is the most casual picture that exists of Kurt Angle. (Source)

Brock Lesnar. One of the only people to have success in both professional wrestling and MMA, Lesnar had an astonishing 106-5 record in collegiate wrestling.

Cain Velasquez. A decorated wrestler at ASU, Velasquez also became the first Mexican-American heavyweight champ in the UFC.

Bobby Lashley. A three-time national champion, Lashley went on to wrestle in the WWE and later in MMA. Wow.

Carla Esparza. Nicknamed "Cookie Monster," Esparza probably has a strange understanding of what that character was all about. After wrestling in college, she became the inaugural women's Strawweight champion in the UFC.

Jordan Burroughs. A gold medalist in the 2012 games, Burroughs did his college wrestling at the University of Nebraska.

Daniel Cormier. He wrestled in college. He wrestled in the Olympics. He wrestled in Strikeforce and the UFC (in two different weight classes). This is a guy who likes to wrestle, and he is extremely good at it.