Bruce Baumgartner (center) poses for photos during a fundraising dinner in his honor hosted by his hometown of Haledon at the town’s recreation center, Friday, August 15, 2025. Bruce Baumgartner, an ...

Bruce Baumgartner never aspired to any of this. And yet, that’s exactly the point. Baumgartner, who grew up on Mason Ave in Haledon as the younger of two brothers, did as all younger brothers do and ...

HALEDON — Bruce Baumgartner, the heavyweight wrestling star and Olympic gold medalist, will return to his hometown for a charity dinner to raise money for upgrades to the recreation center. The ...

Two-time Olympic wrestling champion Bruce Baumgartner speaks to a group of wrestlers from Pierz, Minnesota after signing his wall display at the National Wrestling Hall of Fame Dan Gable Museum in ...

Erie News Now’s Mike Ruzzi has been spending time at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, talking about one of the greatest Olympians of all time and president of USA Wrestling , a man who ...

North Jersey has produced the baseball player who broke the color barrier in the American League in Larry Doby (Paterson), one of the greatest U.S. wrestlers of all-time in Bruce Baumgartner (Haledon) ...