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Frank Gou

American professional wrestler

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ127277846 ↗
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Frank Gou was an American professional wrestler that most notably took part in the EMLL 1st Anniversary Show on September 21, 1934. During the event he was defeated by La Maravilla Enmascarada,

Gou continued to wrestle in Mexico throughout the 1930s, including a loss to Tony Canales in 1935. Gou's last recorded match took place on January 1, 1940, at a Wrestling In Guadalajara event, where he was defeated by Luis Robles.

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This entry incorporates text from “Frank Gou” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.