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Gorilla Monsoon

alexandergartley — 2008-04-28T21:08:23Z

Renamed to "Robert Marella"

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- Gorilla Monsoon was a professional wrestler born in Rochester on June 4, ["1937"]. His real name was Robert Marella and played 3 sports (["wrestling"], track and field, and football) for ["Thomas Jefferson High School"]. - - In college, he set school records in both the shot and the discus for Ithaca College. He still holds the school record for fastest pin, at 18 seconds. He came in second place in the NCAA heavyweight tournament in 1959, but was beat out for the 1960 olympic team. - - Monsoon made his professional wrestling debut in 1959 at the ["Rochester War Memorial"]. He spent most of his career with the WWF, and held the tag titles twice, once with [wiki:wikipedia:Bill_Watts Bill Watts], and once with [wiki:wikipedia:Killer_Kowalski Killer Kowalski]. His most famous moment in the WWF was an angle that was shot with Muhammed Ali in the mid 70's. - - As one of the few educated men in wrestling back then, he held a variety of backstage jobs, including becoming part owner of the WWF until he sold his share of the company to Vince McMahon. - - After retiring, Gorilla became an announcer for the WWF (now [http://www.wwe.com WWE]). He died in 1999. - - [wiki:wikipedia:Gorilla_Monsoon Monsoon's Wikipedia page]	+ #redirect Robert Marella

alexandergartley — 2008-04-28T21:07:20Z

added wiki link to 1937

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peteb — 2007-04-25T22:19:18Z

Removed Dan Millibrand link-not relevant to rochester

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MichaelChmielowiec — 2007-04-25T19:40:36Z

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MichaelChmielowiec — 2007-04-25T18:41:38Z

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DanMilbrand — 2007-04-25T18:22:29Z

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peteb — 2007-02-09T03:56:10Z

Wikified Killer Kowalski/Bill Watts

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- Monsoon made his professional wrestling debut in 1959 at the ["Rochester War Memorial"]. He spent most of his career with the WWF, and held the tag titles twice, once with Bill Watts, and once with Killer Kowalski. His most famous moment in the WWF was an angle that was shot with Muhammed Ali in the mid 70's.	+ Monsoon made his professional wrestling debut in 1959 at the ["Rochester War Memorial"]. He spent most of his career with the WWF, and held the tag titles twice, once with [wiki:wikipedia:Bill_Watts Bill Watts], and once with [wiki:wikipedia:Killer_Kowalski Killer Kowalski]. His most famous moment in the WWF was an angle that was shot with Muhammed Ali in the mid 70's.

peteb — 2007-02-09T03:54:36Z

Linked WWE/Wikified Gorilla

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- After retiring, Gorilla became an announcer for the WWF. He died in 1999.	+ After retiring, Gorilla became an announcer for the WWF (now [http://www.wwe.com WWE]). He died in 1999. + + [wiki:wikipedia:Gorilla_Monsoon Monsoon's Wikipedia page]

HuffaMoose — 2007-02-07T21:37:06Z

I used to be able to write.

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	+ Gorilla Monsoon was a professional wrestler born in Rochester on June 4, 1937. His real name was Robert Marella and played 3 sports (["wrestling"], track and field, and football) for ["Thomas Jefferson High School"]. + + In college, he set school records in both the shot and the discus for Ithaca College. He still holds the school record for fastest pin, at 18 seconds. He came in second place in the NCAA heavyweight tournament in 1959, but was beat out for the 1960 olympic team. + + Monsoon made his professional wrestling debut in 1959 at the ["Rochester War Memorial"]. He spent most of his career with the WWF, and held the tag titles twice, once with Bill Watts, and once with Killer Kowalski. His most famous moment in the WWF was an angle that was shot with Muhammed Ali in the mid 70's. + + As one of the few educated men in wrestling back then, he held a variety of backstage jobs, including becoming part owner of the WWF until he sold his share of the company to Vince McMahon. + + After retiring, Gorilla became an announcer for the WWF. He died in 1999.