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The Amputee Wrestler: Rohan Murphy Can Take You Down

To say that Rohan Murphy is strong would be an understatement: With his brawny shoulders, arms and chest, the East Islip, N.Y. man can bench press three times his own body weight and was a star wrestler in high school and college. Murphy, 26, is such a magnificent physical specimen, you can almost forget the one thing that truly sets him apart: He has no legs. Murphy was born with birth defects so severe -- he was missing a hip joint on his right side and half a joint on the other -- that, at...Full Story
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