Jacob "Jaap" Grobbe, better known as Hans Mortier, was a Dutch professional wrestler best known for his stint in the World Wide Wrestling Federation and his feud with WWWF Champion Bruno Sammartino in the 1960s.
10 Facts About Hans Mortier
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Hans Mortier was a world-class bodybuilder before he entered the ring and was known by many as "The Great".
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Hans Mortier's first wrestling match was in Tacoma in 1946 against Abe Yourist.
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Hans Mortier later wrestled out of Columbus, Ohio, in the late 1940s and early 1950s using under the ring name Dutch Howlett.
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Hans Mortier feuded with Bruno Sammartino for Samamrtino's WWWF Championship.
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Hans Mortier returned to the WWWF in the mid-1960s, and upset Bobo Brazil in less than a minute in Madison Square Garden with "the guillotene" submission.
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Hans Mortier again faced Sammartino for the title, ultimately losing.
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Hans Mortier became a police officer for six months in Tacoma, Washington.
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Hans Mortier died on December 15,2010, in the Netherlands due to natural causes, he was 85.
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In 2015 Hans Mortier was posthumously inducted into the Dutch Wrestling Hall Of Fame.