Kurt Angle Wins IWGP _title_
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Source: tnawrestling.com

By Bill Banks

On Friday in Tokyo, Japan, TNA Wrestling World Heavyweight Champion Kurt Angle defeated longtime rival Brock Lesnar for the IWGP Championship in a match for Antonio Inoki’s new IGF wrestling promotion.

TNA officials spoke by phone with Angle following the match, who had this to say:

“The IWGP Championship is the second _title_ to add to my growing collection,” Angle said. On July 15 at Victory Road, I’m going to add a third _title_ – the TNA World Tag Team Championship. Then after Victory Road, there will only be one more _title_ for me to win – and that’s to take the X Championship from that fat slob Samoa Joe!”

Angle finished up by saying…

“It's real...it's damn real...thank you!"

Kurt Angle will be returning to the United States with both his TNA World Heavyweight Championship as well as the IWGP Championship

Kurt won the belt, not the _title_.

Brock was stripped of the _title_ by New Japan (Inoki has severed ties with the Parent Company of NJPW...ironic since Inoki was the founder of NJPW), but refused to return the belt.

Kurt Angle is no more the IGWP Champion than I would be WWE Champion if I bought a replica belt.