Nicknamed "Big Thunder" and billed as being "Canada's Greatest Athlete" Gene Kiniski was a great big bear of a man who went on to become the top heel of the late 1960s. Kiniski came very close to ...

Gene Kiniski was a mean, nasty, vicious scoundrel. Fans threw shoes and chairs at him. One stabbed him in the back with a shiv. More than once, a Kiniski match began in the ring only to be settled ...

Sometimes introduced as the meanest man in Canada, the late professional wrestler Gene Kiniski remains the stuff of legend. The former world heavyweight champion became infamous as a brutish ...

Gene Kiniski in an undated photo. ((CBC)) Gene Kiniski, a former professional wrestler and member of the Edmonton Eskimos, died Wednesday morning. Kiniski, 81, succumbed to cancer in a long-term ...

WWE posted the following on the passing of Gene Kiniski? World Wrestling Entertainment has learned of the passing of Gene Kiniski and sends its condolences to the Kiniski Family. Mr. Kiniski ...

Sounds like a classic Gene Kiniski match. But then, Kiniski was such a great showman, any of his matches could be labelled a classic. This made him one of wrestling’s favourite bad guys from the ...

Legendary former professional wrestler Gene Kiniski has died at the age of 81. Kiniski, who also played in the Canadian Football League for the Edmonton Eskimos, passed away after a battle with ...

Eugene Nicholas Kiniski was a Canadian athlete who played football for the Edmonton Eskimos and later was a successful professional wrestler recognized as a multiple-time world heavyweight champion.

“Bobby was in a class by himself,” said Gene Kiniski, a friend and former professional world champion who wrestled Mr. Managoff many times. “He would have a wrist lock on you and all of a ...

the stadium managed to draw a packed crowd of 12,000 to see legendary North Texas wrestler and promoter Fritz Von Erich challenge NWA Champion Gene Kiniski for his title in a two-out-of-three ...

Sometimes introduced as the meanest man in Canada, the late professional wrestler Gene Kiniski remains the stuff of legend. The former world heavyweight champion became infamous as a brutish, ...