Maurice Catarcio, 76, who earned his place in Guinness World Records by pulling a boat with 125 passengers as he swam 300 feet across a lake when he was 69, died Thursday of cancer in Del Haven, N.J.
Catarcio, a former professional wrestler and longtime chairman of the Cape May County Bridge Commission in New Jersey, took his personal fitness crusade public after undergoing surgery for prostate cancer in 1991. He had been a bodybuilder and weightlifter since age 11, and from 1957 to 1960 competed in the World Wrestling Federation as "The Matador."
