Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nicknamed 'The Russian Lion' and born in 1877 Estonia, Hackenschmidt's talents extended beyond lifting: he was fluent in seven ...

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In the wake of Brock Lesnar’s win over Frank Mir at UFC 100 we are experiencing a focus on personality and theatrics in the fight game. Rather than allow this to simply be passed over as a product of ...

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt once stated, "If I wasn't president of the United States, I would like to be George Hackenschmidt." That is the type of respect that the grappler known as “The ...

A hundred years ago on September 4th 1911, the biggest rematch of the time in Professional Wrestling would take place in Comiskey Ball Park, Chicago, Illinois. Frank Gotch, a wiry farmboy from Iowa ...

Documents one of the most important wrestling matches of the early 20th century between the legendary Estonian strongman Georg Hackenschmidt and the American Joe Rogers. Originally filmed in February ...

You may not have heard of him, but George Hackenschmidt is considered as the pioneer of bodybuilding. But aside from his weightlifting efforts, Hackenschmidt was the first recognised World Heavyweight ...