Martin “Agricola” Burns

Martin “Agricola” Burns erat a professio-quod-capere possunt capere et ad corporis luctari luctator sicut et culturae trainer. Quamvis magna victoria luctator, et conciliandos American Heavyweight Championship, he is more famous as a wrestling trainer.

Martin “Agricola” Burns natus Februarii 15, 1861 in Cedar County, Iowa. Et tunc et nunc, wrestling is in an Iowan’s blood. Burns was already wrestling at an early age. Cum patre pertransivit, Burns began to do farm work to help support his mother and siblings. Hoc opus adiuvisti eum develop tremendous corporalis vires ut cum suis colluctatione virtus.

At 19, he was already winning professional wrestling matches. Neck strength was one of Burns’ strongest assets. Burns worked to develop a 20 inch neck. Ad demonstrabo collum suum robore, Vellet adiutorem pendet in collum cum funem imprimere turbas et potentiale alumni. Burns semper abiit ab operibus pollicit.

Even though he weighed only 165 pondo, Burns won the American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship and was undefeated between 1890 et 1893. Saepe palaestrica multo maior hominum, Ardens usus ars et potestatem vincere omnes challengers in regno suo. He finally retired in the early 1900s after a second reign as champion between 1895 et 1897.

Burns started training other wrestlers in 1893. Frank Gothic erat clarissimi. Burns defeated his future student in 1899, when Gotch was 21. Imprimitur Gothic tali aetate, Ardens praesertim managed et eruditus GETH, who won the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship from George Hackenschmidt in 1908, from 1899 on.

In 1914, Burns would publish an almost hundred page course on lessons in both physical culture and wrestling. Besides Gotch, Et “Strangulatam” Lewis also followed Burns’ training methods.

Burns passed away on January 8, 1937 at 75 years of age in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Burns and his wife had three children, two sons and a daughter. Burns’ wife passed away in 1930. After his daughter passed away in 1932, Burns’ health began to deteriorate quickly. Dolor est solum adversarium impetro superiorem manum in “Agricola” Burns.

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