Eulogy for wrestler, 12: He died doing what he lovedJohn Gilardi
Died June 3, 1933 b. 1845 American wrestler, 1880 heavyweight champion, inventor of the medicine ball. He was undefeated for his Greco-Roman Championship. Muldoon got John L. Sullivan back in shape for his famous 75-round win against Jake Kilrain for the world heavyweight bare-knuckle boxing...
French giant, wrestler. Billed as 7-foot-4, 520-pounds, and "The Eighth Wonder of the World". He portrayed Fessick the gentle giant in the 1989 movie The Princess Bride. He was the first inductee into the WWF Hall of Fame (1993). Read More 6 2 Copy to Share This Entry Malcol...
To oppose in competition: a wrestler who took on all comers. 2. To hire; engage: took on more workers during the harvest. 3. To assume or acquire as one's own: Over the years he has taken on a doleful look. 4. To display violent or passionate emotion: Don't take on so! take ...
“Most teams ran around the mat for ten minutes; we ran for eleven just to have that minute edge.” One of his boys remembers running around the mat listening to Carly Simon’s “Nobody Does It Better,” on Dick’s boombox. He made clear to his wrestler’s that “shape is your ...
One guy, a dead-ringer for a Sumo wrestler, had inscribed in large letters over the length and breadth of his great pendulous pouch of a stomach, “LOVE YOURSELF.” Now that was a man on a mission. Right on, Bro! If riding a bike stark-naked down the Benjamin Franklin Parkway is a...
That happened over the July Fourth holiday, when President Trump tweeted a video of him tackling a wrestler whose face had been replaced with CNN's logo. The source of the video: a Reddit user with a history of posting racist and anti-Semitic comments. ...
The grandchild who knew him best, Margaret Stanley Lewis, remembers James as a bright-eyed, erect, muscular man of medium height who was into physical exercise so far that he had the build of a wrestler. He habitually wore a big mustache that turned from black to white over the years. ...
Kat doesn't work at Jester's on Saturdays very often, but she agreed to work tonight in place of Eric because he is a professional wrestler, and he has a show in VT tonight. I just finished doing a decent little 30-minute workout in my bootleg gym, and I just shovelled in a litt...
The French-Swiss director, who had “multiple disabling pathologies,” died on Sept. 13 via assisted suicide. He was 91. Sara Lee YouTube Sara Lee The professional wrestler and winner of Season 6 of WWE Tough Enough died on Oct. 6. She was 30. Jody Miller YouTube Jody Miller The famed...