Tag: Abe Jacobs

A Kiwi Role: Remembering Mat Historian Dave Cameron

Posted by Steven Johnson | Mar 26, 2025 | Featured Home Page, Obituaries

Dave Cameron, who died March 24, was a legend in New Zealand as a sportswriter, photographer, publicist and historian.

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Abe Jacobs, pride of New Zealand, dead at 95

Posted by Steven Johnson | Aug 23, 2023 | Interviews, Obituaries

You’d be hard-pressed to name a better guy, in and out of the ring, than Abe Jacobs. An...

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Mat Matters: An appreciation for the wonderful Abe Jacobs

Posted by Rusty Loudermilk | Jan 24, 2022 | Interviews, Opinion

Abe Jacobs and I first met when I was a child going to the NWA Mid-Atlantic Wrestling shows, put...

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Piper, Saito, Jacobs enter Tragos/Thesz HOF

Posted by Greg Oliver | Jun 28, 2008 | Interviews, Tragos/Thesz HOF

WATERLOO, Iowa – It was an international event Saturday, as the lives of two Canadians...

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Golden Era star Don Curtis dies

Posted by Greg Oliver | Mar 7, 2008 | Interviews, Obituaries

Right off the bat, Don Curtis faced the best. As an amateur wrestler at the University of Buffalo...

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Abe Jacobs’s fantastic wrestling voyage

Posted by Richard Kamchen | Dec 13, 2007 | Interviews, Tragos/Thesz HOF

Abe Jacobs took a decades-long ride on the strange torpedo called professional wrestling that...

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