Kenny Monday
Kenneth Dale " Kenny " Monday ( born November 25, 1961 in Tulsa, Oklahoma ) is a former American professional wrestler.
Career
Monday Kenneth grew up in Tulsa where she started six years ago in a YMCA "after- school" program with the rings. His great example was the Olympic champion from 1972 Wayne Wells. He then attended the Tulsa Washington High School and was four times the schoolmaster of Oklahoma 1977 he won the U.S. Junior Championship in freestyle wrestling. At Oklahoma State University, which he attended after high school, he continued his success in the university rings. In 1985, he won his first U.S. championship in the seniors became internationally but only in 1988 used because, the Olympic champion from 1984, a very good and successful competitors had in David Schultz in his weight class. By David Schultz " wrestled " he literally until the mid- 1990s to the supremacy welterweight in the U.S. and thus practically in the world. Kenneth Monday failed to qualify for three Olympic Games, winning a gold and a silver medal. In addition to these achievements he won against the toughest competition many international tournaments such as 1988 in Tbilisi, 1991 in Istanbul, in 1992 in Paris and 1996 in Sofia. For his contributions to the sport wrestler he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2001.
Kenneth Monday now lives in Garland, Texas and has three children.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Cup, We = welterweight, then to 74 kg body weight, F = Freestyle )
National success
(NCAA = federation of american. University sports association )
- United States Champion, We, F, in the years 1985, 1988, 1991 and 1996
- NCAA Division I champion he was in 1984, 1982 and 1983, he took 2nd place, We, F