Bob Roop was a state champion high school wrestler in Michigan and then wrestled at Michigan State, which he entered on a football scholarship. His college career was interrupted by military service, where he worked as a Special Forces medic. He finished college at Southern Illinois University, making the US Olympic team in Greco-Roman while a student there. After college Roop turned to professional wrestling, making that his career from 1969 to 1988, when a neck injury from a car accident ended his wrestling. He wrestled with Mid-South Wrestling and the Army of Darkness stable of wrestlers. Roop was inducted into the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame in July 2006.
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