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The Shire Brothers, Ray and Roy. Ray later went on to become Ray “The Crippler” Stevens and is one of only two people to wrestle in Madison Square Garden in the ‘50s, ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s. Roy later went on to muscle out Joe Malcewicz to become the boss of the San Francisco wrestling office.
#Ray Stevens#Roy Shire#Shire Brothers#tag team#brother tag teams#old school wrestlers#San Francisco wrestling#Big Time Wrestling
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Karol Krauser
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1923: (Left to right) Former World Heavyweight wrestling champion Stanislaus Zbyszko, former World Heavyweight boxing champion Jess Willard, and current World Heavyweight wrestling champion Ed “Strangler” Lewis (who had beaten Zbyszko for the title).
#Stanislaus Zbyszko#ed strangler lewis#strangler lewis#Jess Willard#old school wrestlers#old school boxer#World Heavyweight Champion#great white hope
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Ed “Strangler” Lewis in the military, 1919
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Bobby Managoff, former NWA World Heavyweight Champion, takes on Angelo Poffo, father of Randy “Macho Man” Savage, in Chicago’s International Amphitheatre, early 1950s.
#Angelo Poffo#randy savage#Bobby Managoff#World Heavyweight Champion#National Wrestling Association#old school wrestlers
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Martin “Farmer” Burns and his greatest protege, Frank Gotch
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Dr. Benjamin Franklin Roller and his wife, 1916
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Eddie Graham and Gordon Solie
#Eddie Graham#Gordon Solie#old school wrestlers#wrestling announcer#Championship Wrestling from Florida
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Dan Koloff’s NY state wrestling license
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Sputnik Monroe
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William Demetral and Mike Yokel
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Lana Lamar
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Josef Steinbach
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Bruno Sammartino
#Bruno Sammartino#Italian American#Italian sports hero#Living Legend#WWWF#wwe#World Heavyweight Champion
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Larry “The Axe” Hennig (father of “Mr. Perfect” Curt Hennig, grandfather of Curtis Axel)
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A rookie Harold Sakata, a.k.a. Oddjob, fresh off his 1948 Olympic medal win
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Baron Michele Leone
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