Karen Angle

Karen Angle (nèe Smedley) (born October 12, 1972) is a professional wrestling valet and personality currently working for TNA Wrestling. She is the real life wife of professional wrestler and Olympic gold medalist Kurt Angle.

Karen Angle was introduced in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) in the summer of 2007 when Samoa Joe and Kurt Angle were feuding for an all-at-once Triple Crown Championship (Kurt held the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, and Joe held the TNA X Division and TNA World Tag Team Championship). Karen was supposedly wanting to divorce Kurt, claiming that he was emotionally abusive toward both her and their children. At the Hard Justice pay per view, however, Karen betrayed Joe during his match with her husband, resulting in Kurt winning the Triple Crown.

In the following weeks, her character began to develop into a manipulative vamp, such as when Karen claimed that Sting slapped her at No Surrender when, in fact, he had not. This led to Kurt and Sting losing the Tag Team titles to Team Pacman after Kurt executed the Olympic slam on Sting. Another feud then erupted between Kurt Angle and Sting in which Sting had Karen arrested for violating a restraining order and Kurt stalking Sting's son. At Genesis, Karen persuaded A.J. Styles and Tomko into helping Kurt retain the TNA World Heavyweight Championship during the tag team match for the title.

In late 2007, Karen began to have issues with Booker T's wife Sharmell, claiming there was only room for one "queen" in TNA (a direct reference to Booker T's and Sharmell's last WWE gimmick, where they were self-believed royalty). This led to a catfight at the December 12 iMPACT! tapings.Karen suffered a broken foot after jumping from the apron after an in-ring segement. She did not miss any time as a result of TNA's taping schedule.