He was a wrestler, he was a con artist, he was a tackler of bears, he was a drunken crime baron, and possibly...a murderer?
This is the "Are you kidding me? This can't be real!" story of a man who pushed the credulity of wrestling to the breaking point, until the press was forced to out wrestling as a predetermined scam. It's the story of Thiebaud Bauer!
Sources:
-Library of Congress digital newspaper archive
-Biography of Professor Thiebaud Bauer
Author: Jimmy Wheeler. Published on prowrestlinghistoricalsociety.com
-Fakirs At Work: Chapter Two.
Authors: Harry Grover, Published on prowrestlinghistoricalsociety.com
