Dick the Bruiser

William Fritz Afflis was an American professional wrestler, promoter, and National Football League player, better known by his ring name, Dick the Bruiser. During his NFL days he played four seasons with the Green Bay Packers. In addition to that he was also hugely successful in professional wrestling, being a sixteen-time world champion, having held the AWA World Heavyweight Championship once, the WWA World Heavyweight Championship thirteen times, the World Heavyweight Championship once, and the WWA World Heavyweight Championship once. He also excelled at tag-team wrestling, having won 20 tag team championships, having held the AWA tag team championship five times and the WWA tag team championship a record 15 times in his career. Eleven of these championships were won alongside his long-time tag-team partner Crusher Lisowski.

27 June 1929

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