Kurt Angle Recalls The Genesis Of His ‘Three I’s’ WWE Gimmick

Kurt Angle came into WWE touting his “Three Is” of intensity, integrity and intelligence, and he recently recalled the creation of the gimmick. Angle talked on the True Geordie Podcast about how that character was taken from his own personality a little bit and how he was able to make it work.

“I think [WWE] looked at my personality because I am a little bit naive and I wander off,” Angle said (per Wrestling Inc). “I have some ADD. I’m just a really odd person. Brian Gewirtz, the writer for WWE, and Vince McMahon, they saw me, the person I was, and they came up with this character that they wanted me to be a milk-drinking nerd that claimed that he had the ‘three I’s,’ intensity, integrity, and intelligence, but I really didn’t have it because I would cheat to win. Even though if someone cheated and beat me, I’d accuse him of it, but when I won and I cheated it didn’t matter, like I didn’t cheat.”

He continued, “So it was a really, really cool, clever character that they came up with. I was able to portray it perfectly because they took it from part of my personality so it wasn’t that hard for me to do.”