H. Allen Smith wrote an article for True magazine in 1964, collected in Low Man Rides Again (1973), about a gentleman named O'Rourke whom he dubs the "Father of Octopus Wrestling".
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Afterwards, the octopuses were either eaten, given to the local aquarium, or returned to the sea.
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