"It's funny how your whole future can be determined by the most inconsequential little things." - Ed Don George

As a boy growing up in a small farming town in Western New York, Edward George dreamed of making his fortune and seeing the world. Wrestling made those dreams come true.

A collegiate champion who attended the University of Michigan and St. Bonaventure University, George represented the United States in the 1928 Olympic Games. After graduation, he decided to try his hand at professional wrestling, where showmanship and spectacle were just as important as grappling know-how. By the time he was 25 years old, he was the world heavyweight champion.

Ed Don George held the world title on three occasions during the 1930s, becoming one of wrestling's top stars and drawing more than 20,000 fans for clashes against legends like Jim Londos and Danno O'Mahoney. He hobnobbed with celebrities, appeared in a Hollywood motion picture, traveled the world, and established himself as one of the country's biggest sports stars during The Great Depression.

This book follows Ed Don George throughout his incredible wrestling career, into his days as a hand-to-hand combat Naval combat instructor during World War II, his time as a successful wrestling promoter, and beyond. Through newspaper accounts and interviews with his family, this book reintroduces the world to one of the most successful and respected wrestlers of the early 20th century . Ed Don George.