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Scott Beekman, "The Last Gladiator: William Muldoon and the Making of American Sports" (U Texas Press, 2025)

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Why Muldoon Disappeared from History

Paul asks when he vanished; Scott traces posthumous repeal of rules, negative portrayals, shifts in health science, and wrestling's decline.

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