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Jim Ross on Superstars with amateur backgrounds: photos
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Before WWE, Brock Lesnar won the 2000 NCAA heavyweight title in amateur wrestling.) `$ ]/ K/ j5 H
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Verne Gagne was a member of the 1948 United States Olympic wrestling team at 191 pounds.
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: `0 |* S" |' V. I; p1 S" TArguably, the most talented and skilled amateur wrestler to migrate to the professional level was Danny Hodge.
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Canadian amateur wrestler Maurice "Mad Dog" Vachon became a major star in Verne Gagne's AWA.
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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.( l& P* m6 p8 p6 O- k7 d0 y4 K8 {
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Masa Saito represented Japan in freestyle wrestling at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
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6 m" ~3 K+ ` b8 W1 IBaron Von Raschke from Nebraska was a Greco-Roman great before launching an amazing career in the pros.
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5 L. C" ^, B6 w) P2 X( A; c! H: \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.. O/ Q5 q6 l6 M: ?6 H2 Q) u0 A
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; |* X* h5 t" E7 \- H6 wFormer Olympic wrestler Brad Rheingans competed in the AWA and later trained Brock Lesnar.
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9 e- a, W/ \2 gOne of Japan's great grapplers, Jumbo Tsuruta first competed in the 1972 Olympics in Munich.
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X4 R: {3 {0 R: d: A' CFreestyle wrestler Earl McCready is considered one of the greatest athletes to ever come out of Canada.* }0 i3 u' o4 |; |; P7 Q
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Mr. Togo won a silver medal in weightlifting for America in 1948 before gaining fame as Oddjob in the James Bond film "Goldfinger."1 C0 {" d& N' V5 L2 s
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Milwaukee's Dale Lewis wrestled in the 1956 and 1960 Olympics before entering the squared circle.
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9 T* W+ x! P/ Q* g7 X: sMark Henry represented the USA in the Olympic Games and went on to become one of the most dominating competitors in WWE./ g7 q. M. f( t2 ?4 i
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Yoshiaki Yatsu represented Japan in wrestling at the 1976 Olympics and later competed for All Japan. |
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