By Evan Mcgarvey
Original Source: slate.com
If you watched World Wrestling Entertainment’s October and November pay-per-view events, you saw a remarkable sight: Kurt Angle, a 49-year-old wrestler and recovering opioid addict, returning to compete in the sport/spectacle that almost killed him.
Angle’s path through addiction and into a WWE-approved redemption story shows how far wrestling has come in the past 20 years. It also demonstrates how the WWE, now a publicly traded company and multimedia conglomerate, wants to amend its own history.
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