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The Yukon Moose
by Scott Bird | June 2, 2007
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As you can see from the picture at left, Edward ‘the Yukon Moose’ Cholak was anything but a small man. Wrestling for nearly four decades he racked up an impressive 8,000 fights; most won by grim determination and a second-helping of strength endurance. Big, mean and seemingly unstoppable.
To give you a taste of his wrestling style, here he is in action with Dr Jerry Graham Jr (‘the most educated man in wrestling’) [streaming, 17.5mb .flv download]; probably in the mid-’50s. Want more? Check out part of a later bout with Blackjack Mulligan [streaming, 22.8mb .flv download].
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Comments
I watched “Yukon Moose” on “Stampede Wrestling” as a
much younger man in the 70’s and 80’s.He’d carry a moose hed to the ring which required seven atten-
dants to haul away from the squared circle.But
wasn’t Cholak something like 6’5”,450 lb.?
Posted by: BraystreetLad | September 3, 2008 2:39 AM
I think he was billed as that sort of height and weight, and probably wasn’t all that much smaller in real life. Certainly a big man.
Posted by: Scott | September 3, 2008 1:30 PM