Brief bio: NCAA champion wrestler at "a prominent collegiate wrestling program in the Big 8 Conference".
First week on campus, the guy who was the starter at the weight Danny Hodge was going to compete at was sitting at the lunch table in the dorm, in front of the girls and everyone. (This was b4 Wilkinson hall was built...) Danny Hodge walks by, so the starter dude yells out at him: Hey, Hodge, come here! Danny Hodge walked over to the guy's table, where he proceeds to tell him all about how he's going to pin his @$$ in eliminations next week. In front of the girls and everything. Cool as ice, Hodge just reached down and took the apple off the guy's plate, and squished it in his hand, down to the core right there in front of him.
After the olympics, (not sure if it was 1956 or 1960), Danny Hodge turned pro rassler, and teamed up as a good guy with Gorgeous George, Jr. (Son of the famous bad guy rassler from the 40's, Gorgeous George, Sr.)
Many Friday nights were spent by OKSooner waiting for Championship Wrestling to come on at 10:30, which alternated between the resident bad guys with the Arab promoter (Skandar Akhbar) maiming some innocent soul, or being matched up against "Hodge and George" the next week for paybacks.
No matter who the bad guys were, Danny Hodge and G.J. Jr. always won, but for some reason they never did quite get those masks off of them. Usually because Skandar Akhbar slipped some kind of weapon under the rope to one of them. Once the ol' redneck chick who hung out with S.A. snuck a COKE BOTTLE in to the bad guys in her purse.
Seriously, though, Danny Hodge was a real wrestler who had been to the olympics and was one of the first to bring some true athletic talent to the show. At one point he even went to Japan and did some sumo wrestling, just for the fun of it, and did collegiate WRESTLING clinics at local grade skools and YMCA's.
I'll always remember the local announcer, Danny Williams signing off from Channel 4: "...AND WATCH OUT FOR FLYING CHAIRS!"
http://www.wrestlingmuseum.com/pages/bios/halloffame/hodgebio.html Also this:
http://www.dddynamo.com/
VOA, this will be of more interest to you - the dddynamo.com page has some pictures and stuff of an aged Danny Williams and a very well-preserved Danny Hodge with some character called "The Godfather".