Jack Brisco

Jack Brisco, born Freddie Joe Brisco in Seminole, Oklahoma, in 1941, was an American amateur and professional wrestler who died in 2010. A member of the Chickasaw Nation, he was a three-time Oklahoma high school champion and then wrestled for Oklahoma State, where in 1965 he became the first Native American to win an NCAA Division I national wrestling championship. He turned professional in 1965 under the promoter Leroy McGuirk and worked in the territories of the National Wrestling Alliance, becoming a two-time NWA World Heavyweight Champion and a multi-time NWA World Tag Team Champion with his brother Gerald Brisco. Lou Thesz called him one of the toughest and most highly skilled wrestlers of the last 50 years, and the Brisco brothers also introduced the future Hulk Hogan to his trainer Hiro Matsuda.