Ivan Poddubny

Ivan Poddubny
Birth name Ivan Maximovich Poddubny
Born 26 September 1871
Krasenivka, Zolotonosha uezd, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire
(now Chornobai Raion, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine)
Died 8 August 1949 (aged 77)
Yeysk, Yeysk region, Krasnodar Krai, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Spouse(s) Antonina Kvitko-Fomenko (1909–1920), Mariya Mashoshyna (1927–1949)
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s) The Champion of Champions, Ivan The Terrible, The Russian Hercules
Billed height 185 cm (6.07 ft; 73 in)
Billed weight 120 kg (260 lb)
Trained by Eugène de Paris
Debut 1896
Retired 1947

Ivan Maximovich Poddubny (Russian: Ива́н Максимович Подду́бный, Ukrainian: Іва́н Максимович Підду́бний; 8 October 1871 – 8 August 1949) was a Zaporozhian Cossack-born Russian and a Soviet professional wrestler.[1][2][3][4][5] He began his sports career around 1900; his career lasted for about forty years and he lost only two times.

Ukrainian stamp with Poddubny

Poddubny was born in 1871 into a Zaporozhian Cossack[1][2][3][4][5] family in the village of Krasenivka, in the Zolotonosha Uyezd of the Poltava Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Chornobai 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.

Repeatedly Ivan won Greco-Roman wrestling "World Cups" among professionals, including the most authoritative of them — in Paris (1905—1908). In 1925—1927 years performed in Germany and USA.[1]

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]

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

Championships, Accomplishments and Awards

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Абсолютная сила Ивана. vokrugsveta.ru
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 ИВАН ПОДДУБНЫЙ (Ivan Piddubny). history.vn.ua
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Иван Поддубный в Екатеринославе позировал и дрался
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Nikolai Sukhomlin (16 March 2009) Богатырь Иван ПОДДУБНЫЙ: из грузчиков в чемпионы. h.ua
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Иван Поддубный (Ivan Poddubny). ote4estvo.ru. 6 July 2011
  6. ↑ Сильный мира сего: почему от Ивана Поддубного сбежала жена, и зачем борец работал вышибалой в баре. Argumenty i Fakty
  7. ↑ "Иван Максимович Поддубный -наш великий земляк (Ivan Maksimovich Poddubny – Our Great Countryman)". Tourism Website "My Eisk". Retrieved 9 September 2014.
  8. ↑ "3 россиянина, награждённые орденом Почётного легиона за необычные заслуги (3 Russians Awarded Légion d'honneur for Unusual Merits)". Russian Daily "Sobesednik". 16 August 2013. Retrieved 9 September 2014.

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