Strongmen and pro wrestling go hand in hand. Who can forget the muscled up 1980s?
Yet, the more things change, the more they stay the same. In the pioneer era of wrestling, your prototypical strongmen and bodybuilders were also featured alongside and inside professional wrestling.
This 1000 Hours episode of the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show continues to focus on the pioneer era of wrestling, taking a look at such pioneering strongmen and their relation to wrestling such as Eugen Sandow, Louis Cyr, and George Hackenschmidt.
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