A comment from The Cadillac Evening News by Earl T. Huckle:

���� "His roughhouse tactics, however, left their toil on the sandy-haired, blue-eyed boxer and only four years after he lost his title, he was judged insane in Michigan (Wisconsin). He was only 26 at the time. Wolgast did fight again as late as 1920 in a losing cause in California and soon afterward was committed for the rest of his life in mental institutions. He died penniless, blind and all but forgotten in 1955 at the age of 67 of a heart ailment in Camarillo, Calf. His many brutal fights left him with severe brain damage. He spent most of his 35 years in a mental ward training for 'a phantom' rematch with fighter Rivers."