Beth Phoenix
Beth (real name Beth Kocianski) was a WWE Divas champion and a three-time WWE women’s champion. She was the first female varsity wrestler at Notre Dame High School in Elmira, NY. Phoenix works with numerous worthy causes, including the Eblen Charitable Foundation, Mission Hospital Volunteer Department and the “I Have a Dream” Foundation.
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Brian Blair
Brian wrestled with several of the top professional wrestling companies in the United States, included the WWE. He was best known as half of the Killer Bees tag team during the 1980’s (along with 2013 Frank Gotch Award winner Jim Brunzell). Blair has wrestled in over 5000 matches in 40 different countries, including appearances…
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Greg Wojciechowski
Greg was an NCAA champion at heavyweight for Toledo in 1971. He was also a 13-time national AAU champion (eight freestyle and five Greco-Roman), two-time World team member (1970 and 1978) and a member of the 1980 Olympic freestyle team.
“Anything associated with Dan Gable is an honor,” said Wojociechowski. “I’m proud of my amateur…
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Jim Londos
As a teenage Greek immigrant, Jim Londos had his face rubbed in the mat at the San Francisco YMCA. But he persisted to become the most successful and important wrestler of the first half of the 20th century. When he won the world championship in 1929-30, he shook the sport out of its doldrums…
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Matt Lindland
Lindland attended Gladstone High School in Gladstone, Ore. He was a junior college national champion for Clackamas Community College in 1991, then transferred to the University of Nebraska where he was a Big Eight champion in 1993. He went on to win a silver medal at the 2000 Olympics followed by a silver medal…
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Wade Keller
Keller has been a leading pro wrestling reporter and analyst since launching the Pro Wrestling Torch Newsletter in 1987 when he was 16 years old. He is the founder, owner, and editor of Pro Wrestling Torch, PWTorch.com, and the PWTorch App. Keller is also the host of the PWTorch Livecast, pro wrestling’s only live…