Toots Mondt

Toots Mondt
Birth nameJoseph Raymond Mondt[1]
Born(1894-01-18)January 18, 1894[2]
Garden Grove, Iowa, U.S.[2]
DiedJune 11, 1976(1976-06-11) (aged 82)
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.[2]
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)Toots Mondt
Billed height6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Billed weight260 lb (118 kg)
Trained byMartin Burns[3]
Debut1912[3]
Retired1942

Joseph Raymond "Toots" Mondt[2][4] (January 18, 1894[5] – June 11, 1976)[6] was an American professional wrestler and promoter who revolutionized the wrestling industry in the early to mid-1920s and co-promoted the World Wide Wrestling Federation.[7] Some of the stars Mondt helped create from the 1920s through the 1960s included Wayne Munn, Jim Londos, Antonino Rocca, Bruno Sammartino, Stu Hart and Cowboy Bill Watts.

  1. ^ Joe Toots Mondt profile, from WrestlingData.com
  2. ^ a b c d Hornbaker, Tim (2007). National Wrestling Alliance: The Untold Story of the Monopoly That Strangled Pro Wrestling. ECW Press. p. 95. ISBN 978-1-55022-741-3.
  3. ^ a b Obsessed With Wrestling profile
  4. ^ "Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame: Joe "Toots" Mondt". Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum. Archived from the original on 2014-12-15. Retrieved 2014-08-29.
  5. ^ Social Security Death Index
  6. ^ Online World of Wrestling: Promoting the Promotors
  7. ^ Wrestling Perspective: The Founding Father

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