Missouri Wrestling Revival

By Mike Lano from February 1, 2010

After losing wrestling’s greatest friend (Georgiann Makropoulos) last week, today we’ve lost one of its greatest all-time stars, former NWA and NCAA champion Jack Brisco.

Brisco died at age 68 after undergoing triple-bybass surgery last week.

Until the arrival of Kurt Angle, Brisco was the most heralded of amateur wrestlers to make the move to the professional ranks. In 1965, he won the NCAA title without having a takedown scored against him the entire year. Eight years later, on July 20,1973, he beat Harley Race for the NWA World title. He lost the title in Japan to Shohei Baba in December 1974, but regained it after only a week and continued his reign until being beaten by Terry Funk a year later.

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