8 WWE wrestlers who have trained and fought in MMA

#8 Daniel Puder

Daniel Puder executing a left-hand jab

The Tough Enough contestant put Kurt Angle in a Kimura Lock on national television, with Puder on his back and Angle's hands in the lock, the referees didn't have much of a choice but to count Puder out to end Angle's ordeal.

One of the two referees present on the spot made a pinfall count even though Puder's shoulders weren't fully touching the mat. Puder could have snapped Angle's arm, had it not been for the referee. Obviously, Kurt Angle wasn't too happy with this.

However, what he didn't know was that Puder was a trained MMA fighter. Puder then went on to win that year's Tough Enough competition with a whopping $1,000,000 prize money. Puder didn’t prove to be too successful in WWE, however.

His switch to MMA was way more yielding as his record at the time of his retirement from MMA in 2011 was an impressive 8-0-0.

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