Throughout the 1970s, Patera worked AWA, NWA and WWE primarily as a heel, focusing much of his draw and appeal on his prestige as a strongman. (Patera competed in the World's Strongest Man ...

Ken Patera shared a frightening story of what he witnessed during a terrorist group's deadly attack at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany.

An American weightlifter, Ken Patera, was training for a rematch against a Russian superheavyweight, Vasiliy Alexeev, at the 1972 Olympics. In an earlier competition, Mr. Alexeev had narrowly beat ...

In 1987, the WWF put a returning Ken Patera and Billy Jack together in a tag-team. They were affectionately known as ‘The Oregon Lumberjacks’, but several behind the scenes wanted things to be ...

Partial Source: Pwinsider-- WWE.com currently has a "Where are They Now" feature up on Ken Patera.-- Joey Styles posted this tweet recently: "What's the big… ...

Sadly, Ken Patera had about as much natural charisma on the mic as Eli Cottonwood's worst day. Physically, Ken was a beast. He was the first guy to hit the 500lbs mark on a clean and jerk ...

Apollo astronaut Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II, known for helping the crew of Apollo 13 safely return to Earth after an explosion doomed their lunar mission, has died at the age of 87, NASA announced.

Ken Dilanian will be part of the MSNBC team as the network prepares for its spinoff from Comcast, while Erielle Reshef will join as national correspondent and fill-in anchor. MSNBC President ...

Big Ken Mcclelland of Cedar Rapids was used to throwing cars around and pulling semi’s and competing in World’s Strongest Man competitions all over the world, but that all came to a screeching ...

Senator John Cornyn of Texas believes he can win a no-holds-barred Republican primary next year with his state’s hard-charging attorney general, Ken Paxton, by making the race all about the ...

Ken Langone is set to retire from his role as chair of NYU Langone Health’s board of trustees at the end of August 2025, the renowned hospital system announced Thursday.