Ivan Poddubny

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Ivan Poddubny

Ring name(s)	The Champion of Champions, Ivan The Terrible, The Russian Hercules
Billed height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Billed weight	260 lb (120 kg)
Born	(1871-09-26)September 26, 1871 Krasenivka, Zolotonosha uezd, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire (now Chornobai Raion, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine)
Died	August 8, 1949(1949-08-08) (aged 77) Yeysk, Yeysk region, Krasnodar Krai, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Debut	1896
Retired	1947

Ivan Maximovich Poddubny also spelled Piddubny (Russian: Ива́н Максимович Подду́бный; Ukrainian: Іва́н Максимович Підду́бний; October 8, 1871 - August 8, 1949) was a Russian wrestler.^[1]^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] He began his sports career around 1900 and his career lasted for about forty years.

Poddubny was born into a Zaporozhian Cossacks^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] family in the village of Krasenivka, Zolotonosha Uyezd, Poltava Governorate (now in Chornobay Raion of Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine). As a young man, Poddubny worked as a fitter in the ports of Sevastopol and Feodosiya for seven years, and in 1898 he started traveling with circus tours.

In November 1939, he was given the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR, and in 1945 that of Honored Master of Sports.

During the Nazi German occupation, he refused to leave the Soviet Union to train German wrestlers.^[6]

Piddubny maintained a lifelong professional rivalry with wrestler Stanislaus Zbyszko. He died undefeated on August 8, 1949, in the town of Yeysk, in the Kuban region in Southern Russia.

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Name	Poddubny, Ivan
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Short description	Russian wrestler
Date of birth	October 8, 1871
Place of birth
Date of death	August 8, 1949
Place of death

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