Ernest Roeber

{{Short description|German-American professional wrestler}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2024}} {{Infobox professional wrestler | name = Ernest Roeber | image = Ernest Roeber.JPG | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = Roeber, c. 1890 | birth_name = | birth_date = September 1861<ref name="data">{{cite web|url=https://www.wrestlingdata.com/index.php?befehl=bios&wrestler=13185 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211022153542/https://www.wrestlingdata.com/index.php?befehl=bios&wrestler=13185 |archive-date=October 22, 2021 |title=Ernst Roeber |work=Wrestlingdata.com |last=Saalbach |first=Axel |access-date=February 25, 2023}}</ref>

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'''Ernest Roeber''' (September 1861 – April 30, 1944) was a German-American professional wrestler who held the European Greco-Roman Heavyweight Championship from 1894 to 1900 and from 1900 to 1901. Roeber also held the American Greco-Roman Heavyweight Championship and the German World Heavyweight Championship.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://prowrestlinghistoricalsociety.com/roeber-ernst1.html |title=Ernst Roeber Biography - The Home of Historical Wrestling |website=prowrestlinghistoricalsociety.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150418154811/http://www.prowrestlinghistoricalsociety.com/roeber-ernst1.html |archive-date=2015-04-18}}</ref>

==Championships and accomplishments== * '''Greco-Roman wrestling''' ** European Greco-Roman Heavyweight Championship (2 times)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wrestling-titles.com/europe/euro-greco.html|title=World Graeco-Roman Heavyweight Title (Europe)}}</ref> ** American Greco-Roman Heavyweight Championship (2 times)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wrestling-titles.com/world/greco-h.html|title = World Graeco-Roman Heavyweight Title (United States)}}</ref> * '''Professional wrestling''' ** German World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Sources== *Sprechman, Jordan and Bill Shannon. ''This Day in New York Sports''. Champaigne, Illinois: Sports Publishing LLC, 1998. {{ISBN|1-57167-254-0}}

==External links== *{{IMDb name|0736256|Ernst Roeber}}

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