Wrestling legend Kurt Angle talks about fight happening outside the ring, helping his brother find a kidney donor

Eric Angle is in need of a life-saving kidney transplant, and his younger brother Kurt is desperate to help his best friend.

Eric Angle is in need of a life-saving kidney transplant, and his younger brother Kurt is desperate to help his best friend.

ANDR:EW TEAMMATES. >> IF I DID NOT HAVE MY OLDER BROTHER ERIC I WOULD NOT HAVE WON THE STATES I WOULD NOT HAVE WON THE NCA’'S I WOULD NOT HAVE WON THE OLYMPICS. ANEWDR: BEST FRIENDS. >> WE HA AVELWAYS HAD EACH OTHERS BACK ANYTHING GOES DOWN I AM GOING TO TAKE CARE OF IT FOR HIM. ANDREW: BROTHERS. >> HE WOULD STEP IN AND SAY HE IS MY LITTLE BROTH IERF ANYONE IS GOING TO STEP IN AND BEAT HIM UP I AM NOBODY ELSE. ANDR:EW KURT AND ERIC ANGLE, ALWAYS FACING CHALLENGES, TOGETHER. NOW FACING ERIC’S GREATEST CHALLENGE. IT STARTED AS A FAILING KIDN, EY >> THEY FOUND LESIONS ON MY KIDNEY WHICH TURNED OUT TOE B RENAL CELL CARCINOMA. ITS CANCER. >> I HAD AN IDENTITY BIG STRONG GUY WON BODYBUILDING CHAMPIONSHIPS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. I WAS MR PITTSBURGYEH AR 2000 . THAT IS NOT ME ANYMORE AND IT HARD TO DEAL WITH. >> HE IS MY BEST FRIEND AND I DO NOT WANT TO LOSEIM H IS SO HARD TO HEAR MHI STRUGGLING KNOWING THAT HE IS GOING THROUGH THIS AND THERES I NOTHING I CAN DO. ANDREW: HE’S NOT A MATCH, BUT KURT HAS BEEN ABLE TO SHARE HIS BROTHER’S STORY ON SIAOCL MEDIA, DIRECTING POSSIBLE LIVING DORSNO TO THE TRANSPLANT INSTITUTE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH. WHICH OFFERS BOTH TREATMENT, AND HO.PE >> ITS NOT SOMEONE IN YOUR FAMILY. ITS NOT YOUR HUSBAND AND WIFE ITS ACTUALLY PEOPLE FROM THE SAME FACEBOOK PAGE THE SAME GIN CLUB WORK EVEN. ANDREW: BUT THE AVERAGE WAIT IS FIVE YEARS, MAKING THE SUPPORT OF ERIC’S INNER CIRCLE CRITICAL TO ERIC’S PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL WELL BEING DUIRNG THE WAIT. >> I AM SO BLESSED TO HAVE HIM AND MY WIFE AND IF I DID NOT HAVE THOSE TWO PEOPLE I WOULD SCREWED. I WOULD BE LITERALLY SCREWED BECAUSE I COULD NOT DO THIS ALONE. >> HE IS NOT READY TO GO AND I DO NOT WANT TO SEE HIM GO YET HE HAS A LOT OF LIFE LEFT IN HIM AND HE HAS A LOT LEFT TO PROVE IN HIS LIFE SO I WANT TO BE THERE AND HELP HIM THE WAY HE HELPED ME. ANDREW: ERIC ALSO SAYS HE MAY HAVE BEEN ABLE TO PREVENT ALL THIS, HAD HE TAKEN THE BLOOD PRESSURE MEDICATION, PRESCRIDBE BY HIS DOCTORS YEARS EARLIER. NOW, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO HELP ERIC, OR ANYONE LOOKING FOAR KIDNEY, THIS IS THE ADDRESTOS UPMC’S LIVING DONOR PROGRAM, WE ALSO HAVE A LINK IN THE ON T.V. SECTION ON OUR WEBSITE, WTAE. M.CO IT’S THE FIRST STEP TO SE

Wrestling legend Kurt Angle talks about fight happening outside the ring, helping his brother find a kidney donor

Eric Angle is in need of a life-saving kidney transplant, and his younger brother Kurt is desperate to help his best friend.

Wrestling legend Kurt Angle and his brother Eric sat down with Pittsburgh's Action News 4 to talk about a fight happening outside of the ring. Eric Angle is in need of a life-saving kidney transplant, and his younger brother Kurt is desperate to help his best friend. Watch the full story in the video player above.This is a battle that started seven years ago. Only recently did it go from a failing kidney to kidney cancer. "If I did not have my older brother Eric, I would not have won the states, I would not have won the NCAAs, I would not have won the Olympics," Kurt Angle said. Kurt Angle said he is not a donor match for his brother but has been able to share his brother's story on social media. He is directing possible living donors to the transplant institute at the University of Pittsburgh. The average wait time is five years, making the support of Eric's inner circle critical to his physical and emotional wellbeing during the wait. "I am so blessed to have him and my wife, and if I did not have those two people I would be screwed. I would be literally screwed because I could not do this alone," Eric Angle said. "He is not ready to go, and I do not want to see him go yet. He has a lot of life left in him, and he has a lot left to prove in his life, so I want to be there and help him the way he helped me," Kurt Angle said. Eric Angle also said he may have been able to prevent all of this if he had taken the blood pressure medication prescribed by his doctors years earlier. If you would like to help Eric or anyone looking for a kidney, visit UPMC.com/LivingDonorKidneyTransplant. It's the first step to see if you are a match.

PITTSBURGH —

Wrestling legend Kurt Angle and his brother Eric sat down with Pittsburgh's Action News 4 to talk about a fight happening outside of the ring.

Eric Angle is in need of a life-saving kidney transplant, and his younger brother Kurt is desperate to help his best friend.

Watch the full story in the video player above.

This is a battle that started seven years ago. Only recently did it go from a failing kidney to kidney cancer.

"If I did not have my older brother Eric, I would not have won the states, I would not have won the NCAAs, I would not have won the Olympics," Kurt Angle said.

Kurt Angle said he is not a donor match for his brother but has been able to share his brother's story on social media. He is directing possible living donors to the transplant institute at the University of Pittsburgh.

The average wait time is five years, making the support of Eric's inner circle critical to his physical and emotional wellbeing during the wait.

"I am so blessed to have him and my wife, and if I did not have those two people I would be screwed. I would be literally screwed because I could not do this alone," Eric Angle said.

"He is not ready to go, and I do not want to see him go yet. He has a lot of life left in him, and he has a lot left to prove in his life, so I want to be there and help him the way he helped me," Kurt Angle said.

Eric Angle also said he may have been able to prevent all of this if he had taken the blood pressure medication prescribed by his doctors years earlier.

If you would like to help Eric or anyone looking for a kidney, visit UPMC.com/LivingDonorKidneyTransplant. It's the first step to see if you are a match.

Wrestling legend Kurt Angle talks about fight happening outside the ring, helping his brother find a kidney donor

Eric Angle is in need of a life-saving kidney transplant, and his younger brother Kurt is desperate to help his best friend.

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