Personal Life
Poffo's parents were Italian immigrants. Poffo was a catcher for the DePaul University baseball team. In college, he studied physical education and was a competitive chess player. While serving in the US Navy in 1945, he set a world record for sit-ups. He completed 6,033 sit-ups in four hours and ten minutes. (According to his son Lanny, after 6,000 sit-ups he did 33 more, one for each year of Jesus Christ's life).
In college he met his future wife Judy, whom he married on June 6, 1949. They were married for more than sixty years, and together they had two sons, Randy and Lanny.
After retiring from professional wrestling, Poffo taught physical education in Illinois.
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