Provided photo. With Regis and Kathie Lee. A born and bred New Yorker, Philbin was no stranger to wrestling shows, making a number of appearances at Madison Square Garden, long known as the Mecca of professional wrestling. More than a mere casual fan, Philbin was a longtime Wrestling Observer newsletter subscriber who faithfully kept up with the wrestling scene.

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Carvings and drawings estimated to be between 15, and 20, years old, found in caves in southern Europe, illustrate wrestlers in hold and leverage positions. Sumerians cast wrestlers in bold relief on stone slabs at least 5, years ago, antedating all other artifacts of ancient sport. A small bronze statuette of wrestlers, apparently used as a vase, was unearthed in the ruins of Khafaji, miles from Baghdad. This artifact, dated B. Wrestling also reached a high stage of development in Egypt, where paintings of wrestlers dating to approximately B.

No archaeological excavation or historical document has depicted wrestling so completely and so technically correct as have drawings in the temple-tombs of Beni Hasan in middle kingdom Egypt. Hundreds of drawings there demonstrate clearly that most contemporary wrestling holds were performed in ancient Egypt. In fact, the maneuvers depicted are more closely related to the present-day sport than are those of such modern variants as sumo, kokh, glima, et al. Wrestling matches were described by the Greek poet Homer, and wrestling became the final and decisive event of the pentathlon, the five-fold contest of the Greek public games.

The poet Pindar describes how the gods Zeus and Cronus wrestled for possession of the universe along the river Alpheus at Olympia. Zeus was victorious, and Olympic festivals dating from the Eighth Century B. Wrestling was the most popular event in the ancient Greek Games, and lists of Olympic wrestling winners have been recorded since B.

One of the most famous of the Greek wrestlers was the philosopher, Plato, who won many prizes for wrestling as a young man.