We've seen them on television screens, jousting with opponents, holding them in a vice like grip, writhing on the floor and breaking bones. Outside the ring, however, Total Nonstop Action's (TNA) star wrestlers love their peace and even their fat-laced butter and tandoori chicken
We've seen them on television screens, jousting with opponents, holding them in a vice like grip, writhing on the floor and breaking bones. Outside the ring, however, Total Nonstop Action's (TNA) star wrestlers love their peace and even their fat-laced butter and tandoori chicken.
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"When we are inside the wrestling ring, our job is to engross people and to entertain them. We have to showcase extreme anger and use various tactics for this. At times some fights get really violent, resulting in fractures or even permanent injuries some times," says leading wrestler Kurt Angle.
Olympic gold
"But once we are outside the ring, we are normal human beings spending time with family and friends," pointed out Angle, 40, who won the Olympic gold medal in wrestling for the US in 1996.
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He's overwhelmed by Indian hospitality. It's simply amazing. I had never seen such a warm reception as the one we got at the Mumbai airport."
Indian spice
As for Indian food, it's so good that he's even given up his diet. "These days I have also altered my diet chart and have started eating a lot of Indian spicy food and I am really enjoying tandoori chicken." His colleagues Foley and Lethal "I have discovered that Indians are very passionate and full of energy. I liked their food very much, especially the butter chicken," Lethal, the youngest wrestler, added enthusiastically.
"I have also started listening to Indian music and watching cricket... unfortunately this game is not that popular in the US."
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