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Hodge vs. Akbar: a 30-Year Feud Still on the Line

Posted: Oct 19th 2006 By: CMBurnham

Two-time Olympic Medalist and legendary wrestler Danny Hodge will settle an on-going 30 year feud with the infamous General Skandar Akbar. Will this feud finally be put to rest? Nobody knows until they meet on October 28th!!!

In Oklahoma City on Saturday Oct 28th at 7:30pm, All American Championship
Wrestling is proud to present two legends with an on-going, unresolved, 30 year feud. Two-time Olympic Medalist Danny Hodge and the infamous Skandar Akbar. Will their feud finally come to an end or is it only the beginning?

Danny Hodge has made many achievements in this sport and will be in the corner of the AACW Heavyweight Champion Glen Steel with the famous manager of champions StepStool Tommy D vs. Mustafa Sharmoot or Kareem Sadat with Danny Hodge's enemy Skandar Akbar in the corner of one of the two Arab's. This will also be a free show to the kids who have on costumes and a prize will be given out for the best costume. The children must be accompanied by a paid adult.

History of Danny Hodge:
In the collegiate style of wrestling, he had no no challengers. He won every one of his 46 bouts for the University of Oklahoma, 36 of them by fall, an astonishing 78 percent. During his junior and senior years, he pinned 22 consecutive opponents. And no collegiate foe ever took him to the mat from standing position. (Still Holds the record today!)

Three times a National Collegiate champion at 177 pounds, he twice was voted the outstanding wrestler of the NCAA tournament.

In one 10-day span in 1956, his junior year, Hodge won the NCAA title and National AAU championships in both Greco-Roman and freestyle, winning every bout in those tournaments by fall.

Twice he was an Olympic wrestler, placing fifth in 1952 in Helsinki, Finland before his college career started, and winning the silver medal in the 1956 Games at Melbourne, Australia. In the championship bout, he led his Bulgarian opponent by a wide margin when a controversial rolling fall was called against him.

Over five years starting in 1952, his only three defeats in any style of wrestling were administered by three Olympic champions, a Russian, an American, and a Bulgarian.

After his collegiate wrestling career, Hodge won national Golden Gloves and National AAU championships in boxing, becoming the first athlete in more than 50 years to win national titles in both sports.

For his legendary achievements as a wrestler, Hodge was honored as a Distinguished Member of the US National Wrestling Hall of Fame. (by courtesy of USA Wrestling).