My sister found this great set of stories about a wrestler who ‘grappled’ in Lake Worth named George Romanoff. There were a couple points that I found particularly interesting about these stories, first that the haut monde newspaper, the Palm Beach Daily News reported on the story and thus has a history of covering wrestling news, that alone is enough to keep me laughing for a few days.
The really cool point though is that George Romanoff was the original silent film Tarzan. Yep, we had the first ever ape-man of the silver screen defending his middleweight title in our town. Gotta love it.



Point of disclosure, these article were retrieved from The Palm Beach Post’s Archives, one of the projects that I worked on earlier this year for them.