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Statues of wrestlers


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Several wrestlers have been immortalised, in both portable and fixed form. Let's see which ones we've come across.

 

Danno O'Mahoney in Ballydehob, County Cork:

 

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Rikidozan, Ikegami, Japan:

 

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El Santo, Mexico City:

 

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Two wrestlers (Roman recreation of lost Greek original), Uffizi Museum, Florence, as seen in opening of Memphis TV:

 

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Frank Gotch, Humboldt, Iowa:

 

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Steve 'Crusher' Casey, Sneem, County Kerry:

 

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Hercules the Wrestling Bear, somewhere in Scotland:

 

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Bruno Sammartino, portable WWE statue:

 

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Andre the Giant, portable WWE statue:

 

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I've recently come to find out that apparently there's three in Bulgaria. All of guys who wrestled professionally way back in the day (Koloff in the 1920s and 1930s, and the other ones in the late 19th/early 20th century).

 

"The Balkan Lion" Dan Koloff in Sennik, Bulgaria

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"The Terrible Turk" Yusuf Ismail in Cherna, Bulgaria

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Nicolai Petroff in Gorna Oryahovitsa, Bulgaria

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And also, apparently there's a statue of Kurtdereli Mehmet (another late 19th/early 20th century pro) somewhere in Turkey. Not sure where exactly.

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