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Wrestler, icon 'Captain' Lou Albano dies

Surrounded by bleached blond muscle men, 7-foot giants and crossover celebrities - a short, round New Yorker with scraggly hair and rubber bands dangling from his face became one of the most recognizable stars of the 1980s pro wrestling explosion.

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"Captain" Lou Albano, whose career as a wrestler, wrestling...

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