7 best careers of wrestlers after winning King of the Ring

#4 Kurt Angle - 2000

It's true, it's damn true

As mentioned earlier, Brock Lesnar has probably the best rookie year in the history of WWE. If anyone else comes close to having the best, it would have to be Kurt Angle.

In between a winning streak and being WWE Intercontinental and European Champion at the same time and winning the WWE Championship at No Mercy 2000, Kurt Angle would win the King of The Ring. Kurt Angle would go onto have one of the best professional wrestling careers of all-time.

After winning his first WWE Heavyweight Championship four months after winning the crown, Angle would have excellent matches and feuds with The Rock, Triple H, Stone Cold Steve Austin and many more. He had a brief spell as WCW Champion in 2001, and also held the WCW United States and WWE Hardcore Championships. Angle won his second WWE Championship in 2001 and third in 2002. He would also become the inaugural WWE Tag Team Champion (today's RAW Tag titles) with Chris Benoit.

Angle won his fourth WWE Championship in 2003 and also headlined WrestleMania XIX. Over the next three years he would win the WWE World Heavyweight Championship and have many epic matches with The Undertaker, Brock Lesnar, Eddie Guerrero, Shawn Michaels and many more. Angle controversially parted ways with WWE in 2006 and would join TNA Wrestling for a near decade long run, which saw him become a 6 time TNA World Champion, as well as a X Division, and Tag Team Champion.

Kurt Angle would be inducted into the TNA Hall of Fame in 2013 and WWE Hall of Fame in 2017.