Personal Life
Mark Schultz is the brother of the late Dave Schultz, who also won a Freestyle Wrestling Gold Medal at the 1984 Olympics. The Schultz brothers and the Banach brothers became the first brothers in U.S. history to win Olympic Wrestling titles in the same Olympics. However the Schultz brothers are the only brothers in U.S history to win Olympic and World titles. The Schultz brothers won more NCAA, U.S. Open, World, and Olympic titles than any American brother combination in history. On January 26, 1996 Dave Schultz was murdered by multimillionaire paranoid schizophrenic John E. duPont, the founder of Team Foxcatcher. Four months after Dave's murder Mark competed in UFC 9 and won. Then Mark wrote an autobiography which has been turned into a major motion picture called "Foxcatcher" directed by Academy Award Nominated Director Bennett Miller starring Channing Tatum as Mark Schultz, Mark Ruffalo as Dave Schultz, and Steve Carell as John E. duPont.
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