Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Mae Young, R. I. P.

Mae Young dies at age 90; the WWE Hall of Fame wrestler had a career spanning eight decades | FOX Sports on MSN: Hall of Fame professional wrestler Mae Young has died, WWE confirmed Tuesday. She was 90. Young was reportedly hospitalized on Dec. 31, then moved to hospice care. Her death had been erroneously reported in the days after, and WWE did not give a cause of death. 

 Born Johnnie Mae Young in Oklahoma in 1923, Young began her professional wrestling career in the 1940s and remained active into late last year, making her the only wrestler to believed to have competed in eight different decades. In a statement, WWE called Young the "oldest living squared circle personality." 

Hat tip to Mel Odom.

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