Our guy Michael David Smith over at AOL Fanhouse has some comments from Frank Trigg on Kurt Angle’s MMA aspirations:

There have long been rumors that Kurt Angle, the Olympic gold medalist and professional wrestling star, was going to give mixed martial arts a try. But for all the talk, Angle has never actually set foot in the cage.

So is Angle really serious about it? Today I asked his friend, the MMA fighter Frank Trigg, who has a Strikeforce fight this weekend. Trigg said despite his own skepticism, his buddy Angle is serious about it.

“He says he is going to do it,” Trigg said. “Against my better judgment, he started training for MMA about a month ago. He’s going to work at it and see if he can fight in a year or so.”

I asked Trigg why he described Angle’s pursuit of MMA as “against his better judgment,” and Trigg said it was because Angle is going to turn 40 in December.

“At 40 years old you don’t really want to make a change in careers,” Trigg said. “Going from wrestling to MMA is like going from basketball to baseball, like Michael Jordan did.”

Still, Trigg wasn’t ready to completely shut the door on the possibility of it: “If Kurt’s dedicated to it and spending the time over the next 12 months he could do very well,” he said.

Our position is the same–we’ll believe it when we see it. Angle, who was an amateur wrestling monster, certainly has the fundamental background for it but the combination of his age and the wear and tear from his pro wrestling career greatly increases the degree of difficulty. Consider the trouble that Brock Lesnar had early on with his transition, and he’s younger and healthier than Angle…

Trigg on Angle @ AOL Fanhouse