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IN 1965, WRESTLER and actor Mike Mazurki established The Cauliflower Alley Club as a fraternal organization for professional wrestlers, boxers, and Hollywood “tough guys.” The name came as a reference to the mangled cauliflower ears: Mazurki and many other wrestlers of his era sported, visible testimonies to the punishment they endured in the ring; ears mauled by years of stiff headlocks and blunt force trauma.
Mazurki’s left ear was selected as the official logo of the club, which eventually moved away from boxing and acting
