| Toots Mondt | |
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| Birth name | Joseph Raymond Mondt[1] |
| Born | January 18, 1894[2] Garden Grove, Iowa, U.S.[2] |
| Died | June 11, 1976 (aged 82) St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.[2] |
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| Ring name(s) | Toots Mondt |
| Billed height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
| Billed weight | 260 lb (118 kg) |
| Trained by | Martin Burns[3] |
| Debut | 1912[3] |
| Retired | 1942 |
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Joseph Raymond "Toots" Mondt[2][4] (January 18, 1894[5] – June 11, 1976)[6] was an American professional wrestler and promoter who revolutionized the wrestling industry in the early to mid-1920s and co-promoted the World Wide Wrestling Federation.[7] Some of the stars Mondt helped create from the 1920s through the 1960s included Wayne Munn, Jim Londos, Antonino Rocca, Bruno Sammartino, Stu Hart and Cowboy Bill Watts.
- ^ Joe Toots Mondt profile, from WrestlingData.com
- ^ a b c d Hornbaker, Tim (2007). National Wrestling Alliance: The Untold Story of the Monopoly That Strangled Pro Wrestling. ECW Press. p. 95. ISBN 978-1-55022-741-3.
- ^ a b Obsessed With Wrestling profile
- ^ "Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame: Joe "Toots" Mondt". Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum. Archived from the original on December 15, 2014. Retrieved August 29, 2014.
- ^ Social Security Death Index
- ^ Online World of Wrestling: Promoting the Promotors
- ^ Wrestling Perspective: The Founding Father