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The only ursine grappler with a more famous list of foes than Terrible Ted was Victor the Wrestling Bear. Billed as being anywhere from 400 to 800 pounds, Victor reportedly went on a winning.
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1981 was a bad year for Victor the Wrestling Bear. After thousands and thousands of matches with nary a single serious injury, two finally occurred within a few weeks of each other. A 24-year-old came away with a fractured ankle and damaged cartilage and ligaments after Victor started wailing on him for no explicable reason.
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A short bout with Victor the Bear. Written by George Ellison. Wednesday, November 07, 2012. This is a bear story. Unlike many bear stories, this one is true. Tourism started in Western North Carolina during the post-Civil War era, but it wasn't a huge factor in the region's economy until the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was founded.
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It turns out that bear wrestling is a pretty old past time. This 1960 Sports Illustrated profiles of Tuffy Truesdell's wrestling bear Victor. At io9, they point to these videos of various men.
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This was an event at the old Pardners nightclub (previously "The Indiana Club) around 1986.
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A wrestling bear came to Muncie IN in the early 80's. It was at the Armory downtown and offered a cash prize to anyone who could pin the bear. The star heavy weight wrestler from Delta High School beat the bear so badly that the bear's trainer was crying and begging him to let his bear go. I beleive the story was written up in the Muncie Star.
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Victor, the wrestling bear, takes on a challenger from the audience Feb. 15, 1978, during the 22nd annual Great Lakes of the South Outdoor show at the Municipal Auditorium in Shreveport, La.
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Victor the Wrestling Bear is the largest professional wrestler in history, and fought against humans. Yet shockingly the bear actually lost to a human wrestler.
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In 1977, an Olympic wrestler named Jeffrey M. Hunt pinned Victor for 10 seconds, causing Victor's trainer at the time, George Allen, to comment, "I can't believe it happened." In 1981, Wayne Boyd.
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Victor the Bear's stature keeps on growing. Jan 27, 2018. 1 of 2. Ted Kamatchus wrestles Victor the Bear at Madison East Center in Mankato in 1975. Submitted photo. Vern Bense, originally form St.
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Note that we know that the cartoon picture is taken from a different context, however all pictures of real wrestling bears have a certain unpleasant flavor about them which we would rather avoid. Known names of bears in wrestling: Andy The Bear; Bear. Trotski The Wrestling Bear; Trotsky; Vicious Victor; Victor The Bear;
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With that show came some rather novel and bizarre attractions, including wrestling bears. In 1978, then WHEN Promotion Director, Nancy Carpenter, asked if I'd like to take a ride out to the fairgrounds and meet "Victor The Rass'lin Bear" who was to be part of the entertainment at that year's show.
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Victor, arguably the most successful bear wrestler of all time, went on to appear on a number of high profile TV shows, wrestle against The Destroyer and Roddy Piper, among other pro wrestlers.
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The creature's name was Victor—or, rather, Victor the Wrestling Bear. Chet Coppock, the sports director at local CBS affiliate WISH-TV, was Victor's opponent that night. He wanted to give the interspecies bout more juice, so he came onto the court in a wrestling outfit pro wrestler Dick the Bruiser had given him, with a pair of Flas Gordon-esque "slave girls" at his side to emphasize his.
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That is the day that Ginger the Wrestling Bear died unexpectedly hours before her bout in Barrie, Ontario, at the local TV studio. The year was 1958. Pat Malone was Ginger's keeper, and the duo was on tour in Ontario, with many dates for Larry Kasaboski's Northland Wrestling Enterprises, which ran only during the summer when the hockey rinks had no ice — conveniently when bears are not.
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