Historical Wrestlers' Names

This is to separate out wrestlers names based on history from those topical names based on current or recent characters.

So we can start with Ron's cowboys but I am not sure of any injun who actually had a name based on a real chief? Come to think of it, Jack Cassidy wasn't a cowboy! Maybe he is for the (tomahawk) chop?

Another hanging on by the skin of his teeth is Pancho. A google doesn't convince me he was based on anyone. Please defend him, someone, or he's out.

Mustapher Nasser is another dodgy one. Who's he based on? Not the Suez Canal man.

There were only five to start with but more controversy than a riotous tag match.

Here's the updated list:

El Greco

Genghis Khan

Jean Ferré (Was Géant Ferré a real person; or as a legendary character does he go below?)

Rasputin

Mark Antony

Robert Bruce

John Dillinger (Hack saw the wrestler)

Ivan the Terrible (nobody seems to know who this wrestler was)

Iron Duke (magnificently showcased by Ron and Main Mask below)

The Black Prince

Guy Lombardo

Jack London

Tony Zale

Wat Tyler (Eddie Rose incarnation)

General Belgrano (Hack knows a wrestler)

Blue Angel

Karl Marx

Historical inasmuch as based on literary creations, but fictional:

Le Petit Prince

Le Bourreau de Béthune

Casanova

The Wild Man of Borneo

Robin Hoode

Black Knight (from King Arthur)

Under review

The Moonraker Kid (30s wrestler, 1952 civil war novel)

Chris Adams. From The Magnificent Seven, perhaps. Anyone know if this was the wrestler's real name?

Special Mention.

Mitzi Mueller. Because she is.

DQ'd so far:

Cowboy Jack Cassidy

Mustapher Nasser

Pancho Zapatta

Taras Bulba

Ultimate Warrior. Did not appear on UK bills (WWF bills in UK do not count by executive decree.)

I suppose I should broadly define what I mean by historical: characters from more than 40 or so years previously.

Are there any more?