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NHT Audio - In Alabama it is illegal to wrestle a bear. The only human who has any business wrestling bears is Vladimir Putin, judo black belt and master of all creatures.
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In this 1996 photo, a man wrestles a bear named Terrible Ted at the Ponderosa Club in New Hope, Ala. Bear wrestling was, for many years, considered by many to be an
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