Earl McCready

Canadian professional and amateur wrestler Date Of Birth : 1908-06-15T00:00:00Z Date Of Death : 1983-12-09T00:00:00Z

Earl Gray McCready (June 15, 1908 – December 9, 1983) was a Canadian amateur and professional wrestler. McCready competed in the U.S. collegiately for Oklahoma A&M, where he was a three-time NCAA champion, the first wrestler ever to do so. As a freestyle wrestler, he competed for his native country of Canada in the 1928 Summer Olympics. In 1930, he won a gold medal in the heavyweight class at the British Empire Games. He soon turned pro shortly after and became a three-time NWA British Empire Heavyweight Champion. McCready was nicknamed ‘The Moose’ during his wrestling career.

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