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As a kid in about the 9th grade, my father took me to three or four matches. They were fake then, but things still happened in the ring. Once there was a tag team match between two "bad guys" and two "good guys." One of the good guys was a guy named Paul Anderson. He won the unlimited weight lifting in two or more Olympics - can't remember how many. He was 5'10" & weighed in at 350 lbs. & looked like a pretty fat guy with thighs maybe 45+ inches. The bad guys beat up on his partner pretty bad in one of the rounds. At the beginning of the next round Anderson went out, grabbed the other guy's wrist and reeled him in by the arm. He turned the guy around so that his back was to his chest, put his arms around him and hoisted him up on his chest and squeezed him until he went limp. He just dropped the guy on the mat and walked away. That cut the match short, but was pretty amazing & not fake. He was pissed.
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Marv Evans
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