Walter Miller (wrestler)

Walter Miller c. 1915 – 1919

Walter Miller was the middleweight wrestling champion in 1919.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

Biography

He was born in Poland and contracted rheumatic fever as a child.[12][13]

Championships and accomplishments

External links

References

  1. "Championship Wrestling Match on Card for Thursday". Los Angeles Times. 6 May 1919. Retrieved 12 December 2008. This wrestling bird, who will light into Walter Miller for the middleweight title at the Los Angeles Athletic Club Thursday night, reached the city at 11:30 ...
  2. "Miller Is Still Champion". Los Angeles Times. 9 May 1919. Retrieved 12 December 2008. Walter Miller is still the middleweight wrestling champion of the world. Last night at the Los Angeles Athletic Club the peerless mat expert and grappling ...
  3. "Walter Miller Wrestling History". legacyofwrestling.com. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
  4. "09 Jul 1927 - WRESTLER RETURNS. - Trove". trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
  5. "01 Aug 1927 - WRESTLING - Trove". trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
  6. "American wrestler Walter Miller posing shirtless outside the entrance to a bar, Sydney, ca. 1928 [picture].". nla.gov.au. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
  7. Hewitt, M.S. (2005). Catch Wrestling: A Wild and Wooly Look at the Early Days of Pro Wrestling in America. Paladin Press. ISBN 9781610047333. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
  8. "Wrestlingdata.com - The World's Largest Wrestling Database". wrestlingdata.com. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
  9. "Wrestling on radio in 1920s Melbourne - ABC Melbourne - Australian Broadcasting Corporation". abc.net.au. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
  10. "The Masked Marvel, wrestler Walter Miller (image, 1929) [WorldCat.org]". worldcat.org. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
  11. Hornbaker, T.; Snuka, J. (2012). Legends of Pro Wrestling: 150 Years of Headlocks, Body Slams, and Piledrivers. Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated. ISBN 9781613213148. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
  12. Greyvenstein, Chris (1981). The Fighters. ISBN 9780909238629. Walter Miller was considered the middleweight wrestling champion of the world. This remarkable man suffered from rheumatic fever as a child and until he ...
  13. Georgakis, Steve. Sport and the Australian Greek. ISBN 0-949203-67-X. Due to the rise of the sport in the USA, Dick Lean imported Walter Miller, middleweight champion of the world ...
  14. "Wrestlingdata.com - The World's Largest Wrestling Database". wrestlingdata.com. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
  15. "Wrestlingdata.com - The World's Largest Wrestling Database". wrestlingdata.com. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
  16. http://wrestlingdata.com/index.php?befehl=titles&titel=494
  17. http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/wi/wi-h.html
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