Lloyd Keaser
Lloyd Weldon " Butch" Keaser ( born February 9, 1950 in Pumphrey, Maryland ) is a former American professional wrestler. He was world champion in 1973 and silver medalist at the 1976 Olympic Games in free style at lightweight.
Career
" Butch" Keaser grew up in Baltimore. He attended Brooklyn High School and then the United States Naval Academy. Already at school age he had begun with the rings, which he continued at the Naval Academy with coach Ed Peery. He wrestled exclusively in free style.
1970 and 1972 he won the championship of the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association ( Association of University wrestler lying in the eastern U.S. states ) in the welterweight division. In the United States Championship of the university sports association NCAA Keaser finished 1971 4 and 1972 3rd place at lightweight. His breakthrough came in 1973, when he was U.S. champion of the Amateur Athletic Union in free style at lightweight. He was then employed at the World Championships in Tehran and was there with six wins and a draw against the Soviet athletes Nasrula Nasrulajew at first world champion. Lloyd Keaser was the first African-American wrestler who became world champion.
In the next few years he was in 1974 Military World Champion of the CISM ( Military Sports Association, in which the NATO countries and some other Western states were organized ) in the lightweight and won the 1975 title at the Pan American Games in Mexico City.
Keaser drove in 1976 for the Olympic Games in the near Montreal and convinced there with six victories, but was defeated in the decisive battle for the gold medal to the Soviet defense artist Pawel Pinigin just on points.
1977 took Keaser as Captain ( Hauptmann ) in his resignation from the Marine Corps. He resigned after a further training then in 1985 a job as an engineer at IBM in Baltimore. For his contributions to the sport wrestler he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in 1996.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, F = free style, Fe = Featherweight, Le = Lightweight, We = welterweight, then until 62 kg, 68 kg and 74 kg body weight)