Category: Tragos/Thesz HOF

How Ray Gunkel’s death changed wrestling

Posted by Steven Johnson | Jun 27, 2008 | Interviews, Tragos/Thesz HOF

Rows of wrestling photographs encircle heavy-duty gym equipment wedged into the first floor of...

Flood won’t stop Tragos/Thesz HOF ‘Super Weekend’

Posted by KYLE KLINGMAN | Jun 20, 2008 | Interviews, Tragos/Thesz HOF

WATERLOO, Iowa — The flood of the century has severely damaged the Dan Gable International...

Iowa wrestling museum flooded

Posted by KYLE KLINGMAN | Jun 14, 2008 | Tragos/Thesz HOF

What has been labeled the worst flooding in nearly 50 years in Waterloo, Iowa, has caused...

Abe Jacobs’s fantastic wrestling voyage

Posted by Richard Kamchen | Dec 13, 2007 | Interviews, Tragos/Thesz HOF

Abe Jacobs took a decades-long ride on the strange torpedo called professional wrestling that...

Emotions run high at Tragos/Thesz induction

Posted by Steven Johnson | Jul 14, 2007 | Interviews, Tragos/Thesz HOF

WATERLOO, IA — The subject was wrestling, but the watchword was definitely...

Wrestling stars find recognition, not defeat, at Waterloo

Posted by Steven Johnson | Jul 6, 2007 | Interviews, Tragos/Thesz HOF

Napoleon met his end at Waterloo. But for an elite group of wrestling’s finest, Waterloo is...

Mat Matters: Saying goodbye to Jim Melby

Posted by Bill Fernow | Feb 11, 2007 | Gary Howard Memorial Library, Obituaries, Opinion, Tragos/Thesz HOF

At a workplace Christmas function, nine years ago, a co-worker familiar with my love of pro...

Family & faith dominates Tragos/Thesz induction

Posted by JAMES C. MELBY | Jul 17, 2006 | Interviews, Tragos/Thesz HOF

NEWTON, Iowa – The Eighth Annual George Tragos/Lou Thesz Professional Wrestling Hall Of Fame...

Memories will haunt at Tragos/Thesz inductions

Posted by Greg Oliver | Jul 3, 2006 | Interviews, Tragos/Thesz HOF

It’s going to be a bittersweet induction weekend at the George Tragos/Lou Thesz Professional...

Tragos/Thesz HOF announces Class of 2006

Posted by Greg Oliver | Nov 30, 2005 | Interviews, Tragos/Thesz HOF

The Funks, Harts, DiBiase’s, Hennigs were all great pro wrestling families. Come this July,...

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