After back-to-back national championships in 1958 and '59, Oklahoma State expanded its dominance on the mat to an international level. During the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, Doug Blubaugh, 160.5 ...

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Bruno Sammartino, an Italian immigrant who was heavyweight champion of the World Wide Wrestling Federation for a record 11 years in the 1960s and ’70s, long before the federation admitted that its ...

Channel 2 was the first television station in the nation to originate live studio wrestling, back in 1950. The original announcer, Neal Van Ells, became an instant local celebrity as narrator of the ...

Dominic DeNucci, a professional wrestling star who teamed with Bruno Sammartino, lived in Western Pennsylvania for 50 years and trained several top pros at his Freedom wrestling school, died Thursday.