Kenny Monday to be Inducted into United World Wrestling Hall of Fame

Kenny Monday will be inducted into the United World Wrestling Hall of Fame later this month at the World Championships in Budapest, Hungary.

To date, I don’t believe UWW has had a release on the inductees for this year, but Monday posted what he plans to wear to the induction to Instagram on Friday.

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This is the “Hall of Fame of Hall of Fames” when it comes to wrestling. They have the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater that many are aware of — and a number of Cowboys have been inducted into — but this one is on an even higher level. It is probably the most elite club when it comes to the sport of wrestling.

Only six American male wrestlers — John Smith, Leroy Kemp, Bruce Baumgartner, Kevin Jackson, Dave Schultz, and Dan Gable — along with one American female wrestler, Patricia Saunders, have been inducted into the UWW Hall of Fame. A few referees and coaches have made their way in, but only six American men purely for wrestling. Monday will make it seven.

Monday was already a pretty big deal, but as he said in his Instagram post this puts him amongst the elite of the elite in wrestling.

He’ll join John Smith and Yojiro Uetake as former Cowboy wrestlers in the UWW Hall of Fame, with Smith and Uetakes’ inductions occurring in the inaugural 2005 class.

Here’s Monday’s 1988 Olympic Gold Medal match