Dead at the age of 47, Halme is another one of those only-in-America (or rather, only-in-Finland) pro wrestling stories: Halme competed in the mid-'90s WWF as Ludvig Borga, and then returned to his native Finland and was elected to Parliament as part of a far-right nativist party. He made headlines a few years ago for claiming in an interview that Finnish president/Conan O'Brien lookalike Tarja Halonen was a lesbian.
Posted by Stephen Silver at January 11, 2010 06:35 AM