TNA champion Kurt Angle NOT on "Dancing with the Stars"

TNA champion Kurt Angle was NOT announced this morning as a cast member of "Dancing with the Stars," to no great surprise considering recent developments. Angle had been rumored as a potential candidate for the ABC reality series over the past several months, even reported by his agent to have made the show's shortlist.

It isn't clear that Kurt Angle would have made the final cut for DWTS even without his recent arrest on harassment and drug charges. With that arrest though, any chance of Angle being announced just two days later on "Good Morning America" dropped to nill.

UFC star Chuck Liddell was cast to the series instead, perhaps in the very show slot that could/would have been allocated for Angle. Considering that the mainstream sees mixed martial arts and pro wrestling as appealing to the same demographic, it would have been a redundancy to have cast both men. Angle likely had to lose for Liddell to win.