Legendary catch wrestler Martin “Farmer” Burns is remembered as one of the greatest grapplers of his era. He competed in thousands of documented matches winning almost all of them, and captured world titles at Middleweight, Light Heavyweight and Heavyweight despite never weighing more than 170 pounds. He served as mentor and coach to wrestling icon […]
“This camp is for fighters, not wrestlers”. That’s what boxer Billy Papke once told Farmer Burns. Martin “Farmer” Burns was a multiple times Catch as Catch Can Wrestling World Champion, once described by Dan Gable as “One of the True Legends of American Sports”. On May 1910 he was helping World Heavyweight Boxing Champion James Jeffries to prepare for […]
At only 165 pounds Martin “Farmer” Burns took on the true elite of submission fighters of his day. This is a short biography of the Grand Master of American Wrestling and in my opinion the Toughest Man to ever live. The video was produced for the DIDOS YouTube Channel as part of my Catch Wrestling […]
