Also, just because a wrestler has some legit background in amateur wrestling (or any form of grappling) doesn't necessarily mean someone wouldn't try to take advantage of them. You mention Kurt Angle, and even with his amazing amateur pedigree, i think you forget that Daniel Puder still saw fit to take advantage of Kurt and likely would've made him tap if the ref hadn't have saved him. So that's not the safest assumption either.
Again the thing about that was that the objective was a pinfall. Angle was not expecting to get put in a kimura because it really had no place in that competition, because it was a freestyle wrestling exhibition. Were circumstances different who knows what would have happened.
As far as Regal and Show's incident, Show said something disrespectful to either Regal or someone Regal was friends with and then cut a lockerroom promo about how he'd be a star if he "ever got his fat ass in any kind of shape other than round".
We've mentioned the Johnny Valentine-Jay York issue before, but never the WHOLE story so here it is.
After a show in NY, Johnny and Jay are out drinking till about 5 am. Valentine had just bought himself a new car. So York fills the car with water. So its the winter time and the water in the car freezes. Valentine is dead drunk and opens the car and sees its a block of ice inside that he needs to let melt.
To get York back, Valentine waited for Jay York to go out for his match. York had asthma, so Valentine took his inhaler and filled it with lighter fluid and almost killed Jay. Well that was too much for the Alaskan who wanted revenge, so he goes out to his car and grabs a sawed off shotgun and to this day swore he was going to kill Valentine. He walks up to Johnny in the shower and has the gun ****ed and ready to blow Valentine to hell, so he thinks about it, and then just blows a hole in Valentine's haliburton briefcase.
So Valentine and York make up and take it upon themselves to work the boys with their little heated rivalry that they've gotten over. So they're outside of the arena and York fires off his gun, and Valentine stumbles into the locker room clutching his chest with fake blood and everyone thinking York shot him.
One of the guys who happened to be on the card that night was Harley Race. So Harley walks in with his gun ready to shoot Jay York if he has to, before York damn near shits his pants and him and Valentine let everyone in on it.