Jumping Joe Savoldi

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Okay, I just stumbled upon this guy's wikipedia page. And if it's true, he might be one of the most awesome wrestlers of all time, and it's amazing he's relatively unknown to 99.99% of fans.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Savoldi

I mean... Notre Dame fullback under Knute Rockne with a fairly successful career, secret marriage and divorce, solid but short-lived pro-football career, turned pro-wrestler, was in on a screwjob long before Bret or even Wendy, had his own SOFT DRINK and was a U.S. SPY just before WWII.

This man deserves his own fictionalized movie (since I sorta doubt there's many reliable sources), but until then... he at least deserves to be recognized as a badass dude.

[dropkick]

Saw your post via a Google alert set to Jumping Joe Savoldi's name. Jumping Joe was my grandfather and I'm working on a book/movie about his life story. All info. in the wiki post is 100% verified so no need for a fictitious portrayal of his life. If you guys have any questions about that era (wrestling, Chicago Bears or ND football etc.) I'll be glad to try to answer them. Take care. JG Savoldi

[Nacho STAYS Hyped]

Wow...sounds like a real life Forrest Gump. What a life.

[Parrish]

I remember reading about the name in the PWI mags

[rzombie1988]

Jun 4, 2010 0:00:48 GMT -5 dropkick said:

Saw your post via a Google alert set to Jumping Joe Savoldi's name. Jumping Joe was my grandfather and I'm working on a book/movie about his life story. All info. in the wiki post is 100% verified so no need for a fictitious portrayal of his life. If you guys have any questions about that era (wrestling, Chicago Bears or ND football etc.) I'll be glad to try to answer them. Take care. JG Savoldi

What exists in the Savoldi's tape library? Anything rare? Any full years of anything?