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 | | Over the years, Gagne feuding against Gene Kiniski, Dr. Bill Miller, Fritz Von Erich, Dr. X (Dick Beyer under a mask), The Crusher, Ray Stevens and Nick Bockwinkel, he won the AWA World Heavyweight Championship a record 10 times before retiring from full-time competition in 1981. |
 | | He would go on to wrestle a few matches a year until his final match at WrestleRock '86 against Sheik Adnan El Kassey. |
 | | Gagne was a former amateur-wrestling champion who had earned a spot on the U.S. team at the 1948 Summer Olympics, and he ran the AWA with a traditionalist sensibility, firmly believing that good wrestling, not flashy entertainment, should be the basis of a pro-wrestling company. |
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