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Jim Ross on Superstars with amateur backgrounds: photos
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" H* {) Q4 I; z, D& C, } eBefore WWE, Brock Lesnar won the 2000 NCAA heavyweight title in amateur wrestling.
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' ?* |9 x ^4 @: N% vVerne Gagne was a member of the 1948 United States Olympic wrestling team at 191 pounds.
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Arguably, the most talented and skilled amateur wrestler to migrate to the professional level was Danny Hodge.- v! {( P1 ]) [ P, y7 R4 }
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Canadian amateur wrestler Maurice "Mad Dog" Vachon became a major star in Verne Gagne's AWA., ^% m- T5 U, z6 Z7 o
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Kurt Angle won the Gold Medal in the 1996 Olympic Games before signing with WWE and launching a superbly successful career.
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9 }) p4 p, `. Y# _) ` ~Masa Saito represented Japan in freestyle wrestling at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
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0 L! r- P* Q4 pBaron Von Raschke from Nebraska was a Greco-Roman great before launching an amazing career in the pros.
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Bad News Brown medaled in the Olympics in judo before becoming a main event star for Stampede Wrestling in Calgary, Alberta, and WWE.
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Steve “Dr. Death” Williams was a four-time amateur wrestling all-American who also lettered and started four years on the football team at Oklahoma.
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Riki Choshu wrestled for South Korea in the 1972 Olympics and later popularized the Sharpshooter in Japan.
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" O4 V" d& G7 Y( |Former Olympic wrestler Brad Rheingans competed in the AWA and later trained Brock Lesnar.+ ?1 F0 k$ |8 A+ s& Q
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$ C0 Y' S! A* p1 D# [One of Japan's great grapplers, Jumbo Tsuruta first competed in the 1972 Olympics in Munich.
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Freestyle wrestler Earl McCready is considered one of the greatest athletes to ever come out of Canada.2 y# [) D0 N/ o, Q. a) W
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' a) ^/ o- J0 Y7 JMr. Togo won a silver medal in weightlifting for America in 1948 before gaining fame as Oddjob in the James Bond film "Goldfinger."5 S `4 M4 m4 R9 U
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Milwaukee's Dale Lewis wrestled in the 1956 and 1960 Olympics before entering the squared circle.1 _2 V- B( d+ j! d3 W: \$ f
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Mark Henry represented the USA in the Olympic Games and went on to become one of the most dominating competitors in WWE.
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9 F+ ]5 x, C& `* v) |7 |( P' \7 |Yoshiaki Yatsu represented Japan in wrestling at the 1976 Olympics and later competed for All Japan. |
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