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Posted by WRESTLING NEWS on 7/29/2007, 10:26 am He ended up becoming a legend in Japan, where he was eventually nicknamed "The God of Professional Wrestling."
Karl Gotch, born in 1924, passed away at 9:45 p.m. Eastern time tonight. He was a few days shy of 83 years old. A former place-winner in the 1948 Olympics in London, Gotch went to the famed Wigan school where he learned submission wrestling. He migrated to the U.S. where he had a reputation in some circles as the toughest man alive.
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