1929
Dick the Bruiser, American football player and wrestler (died 1991)
Dick the Bruiser, American football player and wrestler (died 1991)
Dick the Bruiser, American football player and wrestler (died 1991)
Dick the Bruiser
American football player and professional wrestler (1929–1991)
- Born
- 1929
William Fritz Afflis Jr. was an American professional wrestler, promoter, and National Football League player, better known by his ring name, Dick the Bruiser. During his NFL days he played four seasons with the Green Bay Packers. He was also a very successful professional wrestler: sixteen-time world champion, AWA World Heavyweight Champion once, WWA World Heavyweight Champion thirteen times, World Heavyweight Champion once, and WWA World Heavyweight Champion once. He also excelled at tag-team wrestling, with 20 tag team championships in his career. Eleven of these championships were won alongside his long-time tag-team partner Crusher Lisowski.