Ike Eakins was born in Evansville, Indiana and traveled the entire USA. Though he had a number of southwestern matches, he received his biggest boost in the southeast, where he often teamed with Eddie Graham.
Style and appearance wise, he would have been apt to remind more modern fans of the late Dick Murdoch.
Eakins died in 1968 from one of the most horrendous deaths in all of wrestling. After wrestling a match, he complained of major pain in his side, but chose to return to his hotel room rather than go to the hospital. He had broken ribs and did not know it. One of these punctured a lung and caused violent, fatal hemorrhage, where he choked and coughed up blood all over his hotel room before dying. He was found dead the next day in a room that looked like something form a horror movie, as defined by one of those who saw it.
Born in Webster Co, Kentucky 3 Sept 1916, died in Dekalb, Georgia on 20 Oct 1967.
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