[Japan news]
Popular ex-pro wrestler Richard 'The Destroyer' Beyer dies at 88
Richard Beyer, a former American pro wrestler who was popular in Japan in
the 1960s and 1970s, died at his home on the outskirts of Buffalo, New
York, on Thursday, his son said. He was 88.
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Beyer, once known by the ring name "The Destroyer," visited Japan for
the first time in 1963 to wrestle in Tokyo with Rikidozan, a postwar
wrestling legend in Japan. The televised bout garnered a huge 64 percent
rating and sparked an unprecedented wrestling boom in Japan.
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https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2019/03/08/more-sports/popular-ex-pro-wrestler-richard-destroyer-beyer-dies-88/
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