The '60s and '70s were a great time to be a fan of professional wrestling. It was right when the sport was getting huge in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Tributes have today been paid to a legend of Tyneside's 1960s wrestling scene. Frank Robinson, who was better known as Frank Robb, passed away last month after battling bowel cancer for two years. He ...