Update on this previously posted photo: This is not The Great Malenko as the note with the print led me to believe but after a heads up by Vintage Jacksonville viewer LP Steve who is obviously more knowledgeable about vintage professional wrestling than I am, it looks like it it actually Jose “El Grand” Lothario.
Lothario’s professional wrestling career started in the early 1960′s and continued into the early 1980′s. He fought tag team with Eddie Graham and Jacksonville wrestler Don Curtis and won the NWA Florida Brass Knuckles title in 1968 by defeating Boris Malenko. A full profile of his career can be found here.
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This is actually a photo of Jose Lothario, a popular babyface in Jacksonville during the late ’60s and early ’70s. Chances are not bad that he had just fought Malenko when this shot was taken.