Animals in professional wrestling

[5] Usually declawed and muzzled, they often wrestled shoot matches against audience members, offered a cash reward if they could pin the bear.

[6][7] Hercules, another celebrated wrestling bear, appeared with Terrible Ted in Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto.

After quitting the sport, Hercules moved to Scotland and took up acting; he appeared in 1983 James Bond movie Octopussy and was named "personality of the year" by the Scottish Tourist Board.

Sammartino has expressed that he was under the impression that the ape would be a monkey and that he only took the match because he was relatively desperate for money at the time as a young newly debuted wrestler.

[18]On December 25, 2004, at DDT Pro-Wrestling's Never Mind 2004 event, Shoichi Ichimiya faced a Japanese macaque named Yatchan in a "Man vs. Monkey Mixed Martial Arts Rules Hair vs.

[21] In 1999 the Big Boss Man wrestled Al Snow for the WWF Hardcore Championship in a Kennel from Hell match at Unforgiven.