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Jack Taylor Born 1887
Ontario , Canada Died (1956-05-19 ) May 19, 1956
Edmonton ,
Alberta , CanadaBilled height 6 ft 1 in (185 cm) Billed weight 212 lb (15 st 2 lb; 96 kg) Debut 1911 Retired 1942
Jack Taylor (1887 – May 19, 1956) was a Canadian successful
amateur and
professional wrestler . Considered to be Canada's first great wrestling superstar
[1] in his time he was the childhood idol of wrestling icon
Stu Hart
[2]
[3] and trained
Toots Mondt .
Biography
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(October 2018 )
Championships and accomplishments
Amateur Wrestling
Canadian Heavyweight Championship
[4]
[5]
Professional Wrestling
References
^ Meltzer, Dave (2004).
Tributes II: Remembering More of the World's Greatest Professional Wrestlers .
Sports Publishing LLC .
ISBN
1-58261-817-8 .
^ van Herk, Aritha (2002).
Mavericks: An Incorrigable History Of Alberta .
Penguin Canada .
ISBN
978-0140286021 .
^ Hatton, Nathan (April 3, 2016).
"Jack Taylor: Canada's first great heavyweight" . Slam! Wrestling .
Canadian Online Explorer .
^ Waddell, Christopher; Taras, David (2016).
How Canadians Communicate V: Sports .
Athabasca University Press . p. 195.
ISBN
978-1771990073 .
^ Thomas, Lewis Herbert, and T. C. Douglas. The Making of a Socialist: The Recollections of T.C. Douglas (1984). p, 37.
online edition
^
"Canadian Wrestling Hall of Fame" . Slam! Wrestling .
Canadian Online Explorer . April 3, 2016. Archived from
the original on January 16, 2018.
^ Whalen, Ed (host) (December 15, 1995). "Stampede Wrestling Hall of Fame: 1948-1990".
Showdown at the Corral: A Tribute to Stu Hart . Event occurs at 15:38.
Shaw Cable .
Calgary 7 .
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