Tom Jenkins (wrestler)

Tom Jenkins (wrestler)

Infobox Wrestler
name = Tom Jenkins
names = Tom Jenkins


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birth_date = August 3, 1872
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death_date = 1957
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billed = Bedford, Ohio
trainer = Luke Lamb of Clevelandcite web|title=Wrestler Profiles: Tom Jenkins|publisher=Online World of Wrestling|url=http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/t/tom-jenkins.html|accessdate=2008-05-06]
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Tom Jenkins was an American catch wrestler who held the American Heavyweight Championship three times around the turn of the twentieth century. He later taught at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Championships and accomplishments

*American Heavyweight Championship (3 times)
*George Tragos/Lou Thesz Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame - inducted in 2006
*Pioneer Era inductee to the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame (2008)

*Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards
**Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (Class of 1996)

References

External sources

* [http://www.wrestlingmuseum.org/people/jenkins_tom.html Tom Jenkins from the IWIM Website]
* [http://www.100megsfree4.com/wiawrestling/pages/other/titles.htm American Heavyweight Title History]
* [http://0-search.eb.com.sciron.cuyahoga.lib.oh.us:80/eb/article-9037482 Cited with Frank Gotch on Encyclopædia Britannica Online]
* [Who's Who of Sports Champions by Ralph Hickok. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company -- Jenkins is mentioned in an article about Frank Gotch]

ee also

*American Heavyweight Championship
*Frank Gotch
*Farmer Burns


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