Canadian Olympian and Pro Wrestling Legend dies

[bkraus]

Maurice "Mad Dog" Vachon passed away last night at the age of 84.   One of the last pro wrestlers when wrestling still had a little to do with the "sport".  I didn't know he represented Canada in the 1948 games.

http://www.winnipegsun.com/2013/11/21/famed-wrestler-mad-dog-vachon-dies

[TomM]

Mad Dog Vachon dead at 84
http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2013/11/21/21283811.html

I remember watching him on TV.

[bigG]

He owned a pub in Omaha. My brother took me there and I met and chatted with him. Not so mad Doggy in person. Really nice guy.

When I was a kid, though, I loved his pro rasslin' schtick.

[maggie]

LOL..Funny G, while working in Omaha a few yrs back one of the guys took us all down there, yes, he was a very nice person in person, i couldn't help but ask him about all the bol's Crusher gave him... ....RIP MAD DOG...

[badgerjohn]

Vachon had a leg amputated following a 1987 hit-and-run incident while out for a walk in Iowa.

"They spent so much time working on his shattered leg that a blood clot formed in his good leg and they had to amputate his good leg," Holliday said.

"I remember talking to him in the hospital and he said 'Doc, I'm so lucky. There are people here with no arms and no feet. They are much worse than me.'"