This retired Mankato journalist changed professional wrestling

MANKATO - In the late 1960s, Norm Kietzer stood inside an armory in Marshall, Minn., across from a man who could've popped Kietzer's eye out of its socket with just a thumb. That man was Harley Race, a fearsome hulk of a professional wrestler known for his toughness and his bad behavior. Race once beat up three men in a Minneapolis diner after he spotted one of them slapping a woman — then went to the hospital to get a knife removed that he'd been stabbed with. And Race wanted...