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Birth name
  
Brad Rheingans

Billed from
  
Height
  
1.77 m

Ring name(s)
  
Brad Rheingans

Debut
  
1980

Weight
  
112 kg

Name
  
Brad Rheingans

TV shows
  
AWA All-Star Wrestling

Billed weight
  
248 lb (112 kg)

Role
  
Professional wrestler


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Born
  
December 13, 1953 (age 70) (
1953-12-13
)

Residence
  
Appleton, Minnesota, United States

Similar People
  
Jerry Blackwell, Adnan Al‑Kaissie, Bobby Heenan, Lou Albano, Ernie Roth

Billed height
  
5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)

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Brad Rheingans (born December 13, 1953) is an American retired Greco-Roman wrestler and professional wrestler. Rheingans was a member of the United States' Greco-Roman wrestling teams for the 1976 and 1980 Summer Olympics, as well as winning two gold medals in the 1975 and 1979 Pan American Games and a bronze medal in the 1979 World Wrestling Championships.

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Early life

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Rhenigans was born in Appleton, Minnesota. While in high school, he won honours in football, wrestling and track and field. His high school friends included fellow future professional wrestling personality Eric Bischoff. After graduating high school, Rhenigans enrolled in North Dakota State University.

Amateur wrestling career

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Originally from Appleton, Rheingans was an NCAA Division II champion in 1975 for North Dakota State University and wrestled in the 1976 Olympics, placing fourth. He qualified for the Olympic team in 1980, but did not compete due to the United States boycott. Between Olympics, he placed third for a bronze medal at the 1979 World Wrestling Championships. He was later inducted into the Tribune Hall of Fame. Rhenigans also won gold medals in the 1975 and 1979 Pan American Games.

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From 1976 to 1977, Rhenigans served as assistant wrestling coach for the University of Minnesota. He went on to serve as a coach for the Minnesota Wrestling Club, where he trained Jeff Blatnick for the 1980 Summer Olympics.

Professional wrestling career

Rheingans entered professional wrestling in 1980, training under Verne Gagne and Billy Robinson. He debuted in Gagne's American Wrestling Association.

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He also wrestled briefly for the WWF as an enhancement talent in 1986, occasionally for New Japan Pro Wrestling from 1989 to 1991, and for various independent promotions in the Minnesota area during the early half of the 1990s.

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In the mid-1990s, Rhenigans began touring Japan with New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW).

Rhenigans retired in 1995 after undergoing major reconstructive surgery on both knees. After recovering, he began working as a trainer and as the American booker for NJPW, hiring wrestlers to tour Japan with the promotion. In the early 1990s, Rhenigans helped broker a working agreement between NJPW and World Championship Wrestling.

After retiring, Rhenigans opened the World Wide School of Professional Wrestling in Hamel, Minnesota.

Rheingans was inducted into the George Tragos/Lou Thesz Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2004.

In wrestling

  • Finishing moves
  • Bridging cradle suplex
  • Signature moves
  • Cutter
  • Kimura
  • Wrestlers trained
  • Big Van Vader
  • Wayne Bloom
  • Mike Enos
  • Don Frye
  • Tony Halme
  • Brian Knobbs
  • John Layfield
  • Brock Lesnar
  • Jerry Lynn
  • Scott Norton
  • Jerry Sags
  • Rick Steiner
  • Tom Zenk
  • Amateur wrestling

  • Alan & Gloria Rice Greco-Roman Hall of Champions
  • Class of 2014
  • Amateur Athletic Union Greco-Roman National Championships
  • Winner, 220 lbs class (1979)
  • National Collegiate Athletic Association
  • NCAA Division I All-American (1975)
  • NCAA Division II Champion (1975)
  • Olympic Games
  • United States Greco-Roman wrestling team member (1976, 1980)
  • Pan American Games
  • Gold medal, 220 lbs class (1975, 1979)
  • World Cup of Amateur Wrestling
  • Winner, 220 lbs class (1976)
  • World Wrestling Championships
  • Bronze medal (1979)
  • Professional wrestling

  • American Wrestling Association
  • AWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Ken Patera
  • George Tragos/Lou Thesz Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame
  • Class of 2004
  • Pro Wrestling America
  • PWA Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Baron von Raschke
  • Wrestling Observer Newsletter
  • Rookie of the Year (1981) shared with Brad Armstrong
  • References

    Brad Rheingans Wikipedia