Don Zalesky

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Don Zalesky
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Ring name(s)	Curly Moe Diesel Don
Billed height	6'0
Billed weight	394 lbs.
Born	April 3, 1962 Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada
Resides	Belleville, New Jersey, United States
Trained by	Johnny Rodz
Retired	1994

Don Zalesky is an American professional wrestler best known as Curly Moe, a "gimmick" or in ring character he played based on the Three Stooges. A major independent wrestler throughout New England and the East Coast area, he was well known for many of his feuds against top independent wrestlers including Tony Rumble, Mondo Kleen and Big Bill De Mot as well as future ECW wrestlers such as Tazz and Tommy Dreamer during the late 1980s and early 1990s in International World Class Championship Wrestling.

Although weighing in at around 600 lbs. during his career, he retired due to health problems shortly after IWCCW folded and began teaching ESL (English as a Second Language) to adults in Newark, New Jersey. In 2005, his weight dangerously reaching 730 lbs., Zalesky eventually had to undergo a gastric bypass surgery resulting in a significant weight loss of 340 lbs.

In January 2006, after false reports of his death had circulated the internet, Zalesky issued a public statement to editor Bill Apter regarding his life following his retirement and appeared on 1Wrestling.com.