Angelo Poffo

Angelo John Poffo was an American professional wrestler and wrestling promoter, born in Downers Grove, Illinois on April 10, 1925 and died on March 4, 2010. The son of Italian immigrants, he served in the United States Navy in World War II, where he began weight training and set a world record in July 1945 by completing 6,033 sit-ups in four hours and ten minutes. After attending DePaul University, where he caught for the baseball team and played competitive chess, he started wrestling in 1948 and won the Chicago version of the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship in 1958. He later wrestled in a mask as the Carpet Bagger, ran International Championship Wrestling in Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkansas, and was inducted into the WCW Hall of Fame in 1995. He was the father of Randy Savage and Lanny Poffo.