Friday, April 18, 2008

  • Martin "Farmer" Burns

    • Iowa-born Martin "Farmer" Burns was a champion wrestler and America's premier grappler at the turn of the last century.

    The "Old Farmer" trained hard, and that made him hard to beat.

    Plenty of wrestler's bridges gave him a 20" neck at a bodyweight of only 165 pounds and his level of conditioning was legendary, regularly tiring out much larger and stronger opponents until they could easily be pinned.

    His top student, fellow-Iowin Frank Gotch, became arguably the greatest wrestler who ever lived, with Burns' training methods.    		Farmer BurnsMartin "Farmer" Burns

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    Posted by John Wood @ Friday, April 18, 2008

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