Eugen Sandow did wrestle a lion once, but he was not a wrestler. He was a “strongman,” body-builder, and fitness instructor, as famous in his day as Arnold Schwarzenegger or Charles Atlas in ours. “The greatest prize in bodybuilding,” the Sandow Trophy, is named after him. The confusion here may lie in the fact that two well-known wrestlers, Billy Sandow and Damien Sandow, adopted his name when they entered the ring as professionals.