BODYBUILDER / WRESTLERS
Featured in "Health & Strength" magazine

Numerous bodybuilders, weightlifters and physical culturists enjoyed successful careers in the Professional Wrestling ring.
Here are some of them, featured in the magazine "Health & Strength".

In some cases there are few or no pictures here of their wrestling careers. If you have any, please send them in!

Where available, pictures of them wrestling, or posing in their wrestling gear, are featured on their individual gallery pages
(follow the links adjacent to the 'thumbnail' pictures).

EARL MAYNARD

Barbados
"Mr Universe" 1964 & 1965
Bodybuilding pictures
Wrestling pictures

   SPENCER CHURCHILL

Kew, London
Bodybuilding pictures
Wrestling pictures

JOHN LEES

Stalybridge
Amateur Mr Universe 1957
Bodybuilding & Wrestling pictures

   TED GUTTERIDGE

Whitley Bay
"Mr Britain" 1963
Bodybuilding pictures

ERNIE COATES

Nottingham
Bodybuilding & Wrestling pictures

   BILL STEVENS

Essex
Bodybuilding pictures

RON OAKLEY

Middlesbrough
Bodybuilding pictures

   JOHNNY YEARSLEY

Dartford
Bodybuilding pictures
Wrestling pictures

ANDRE DRAPP

Paris
Bodybuilding & Wrestling pictures

   JACK TAYLOR

Loughborough
Physical Culturist

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DAVE PROWSE

"The Green Cross Code Man"
Bodybuilding pictures

Supporter of the British Wrestlers' Reunion

"Health & Strength" also had occasional articles, from a physical culturist's perspective, about bodybuilders in professional wrestling.

19th October 1947
Charles Rigoulot - French weightlifter/wrestler

16 July 1959
Shirley Crabtree (later known as "Big Daddy")

Please e-mail any bodybuilder/wrestler information and photographs to The Wrestling Furnace