Birth name Brad Rheingans 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 ) 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
- Amateur wrestling career
- Professional wrestling career
- In wrestling
- Amateur wrestling
- Professional wrestling
- References
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Early life
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
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.
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.
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.
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.