I first thought Fighting Bertosh could be Billy Bartush but apparently Bertosh was a thing from 1936-1938 in Scotland

At Wrestlingdata we have a nice internal feature where we can see when something was edited, and for him we set the birthdate more than 15 years ago. So we (in this case, me) just didn't want to just kill him off randomly. There will be a lot more cases like this. Or should we just kill off anyone over the age of 90? There will also be other cases. Like, I find a wrestler called James William Harrison, from Wigan, born in 1927 and he did emigrate to Canada in the mid 1950s. So I thought that had to be Bill Harrison. Well, I need to correct that quickly.

I have to admit that Tommy Kiki was certainly not on my mind. Funny enough, I stumbled over the site because of Bobby Palmer. Once you find a searchable homepage it is advisable to use google , for instance here it was "wrestler site:whippfamily.co.uk" . This would be quite possibly Davids entry http://whippfamily.co.uk/FH%20Website3/ind4791.html

Would this be the family? If so, who is Isaac Kiki Mercado? http://www.whippfamily.co.uk/FH%20Website3/fam1698.html http://www.whippfamily.co.uk/FH%20Website3/fam1701.html

It wasn't even taken seriously. When it was at the height of popularity in the late 40s the main appeal was the "hetz", which you could translate as something of "an entertaining farce". And why would you have to tour? If you are dormant, you don't have to tour. Imagine you are Felix Miquet and the promoter gives you two options. #1 is one or two months in Vienna, where you can rent something and afterwards you can go to whichever country your want. #2 is three to six months where you earn the money in Vienna, have crappy travel and hope that the small towns don't go bust. Most things are likely open air so hopefully whole weeks won't be a financial catastrophe. Wanz emerged in Graz, yet he was for a whole decade a non-factor in Vienna. He was more of a threat to Blemenschütz. In Linz you had the Olympian Wiesberger. So Blemenschütz had two potential rivals who could have stolen his territory. But Blemenschütz wanted to be the #1 guy in Vienna and thus Austria. Vienna is like London, everything else is like not-London. So why would he risk his attractive business model? TV? How will that help fill the Vienna hay market day in, day out? If anything you can point out how tv and later cable/satellite tv were responsible for an attendance downturn. You only had state run tv. Why would they air the divisive "hetz"?

I believe to have seen a version of the Stanislawow and his debut claim in a German propgram, would be interested to know if they just copied that pr piece. I did look into it as there are two instances of the towns name and I wanted to figure out which one it was. Made me find some Pro-German and Anti-Russian propaganda from (Jews for Jews) from World War 1 and I thought to myself it was basically a compilation of all the worst pogroms in Eastern Europe throughout the ages. It was brutally depressing... I think the claim was that it was a Lodz tournament, but the description of it was a very popular wrestling angle in it's day. He met his wife in Vienna in 1937 during a tournament that was probably stopped because he was about to be the winner (so it's basically the Jim Wango situation but it escalated, Rudolf Zurths son was adamant that it was a natural death for Wango and no outside interference). They settled in a farm in Upstate New York

I recently found out that Sulo Kokko from Finland was a victim of the Red Terror. But he likely only wrestled in the Canadian wilderness in the 1920s Post Scriptum for ruslan: the granddaughter of Roman Waniek wrote us, he was born in Orenburg in 1914. I guess he was a Mennonite

Most Canadian research is seemingly grandfathered in and curated by wrestler Vance Nevada. For this card his file just says "Calgary, AB: June 1, 1962 – No wrestling" . The Stampede Corral was where they had their big shows, so you have peaked my curiosity. But I can't find nothing on Newspapers.com, sadly. Outside of someone from Alabama we are mostly Europeans, so we use the usual online resources.

Seems to be a rather weird case. Not sure if he is legit Animal defeated Bobby Eaton Mike Rotundo & Norman the Lunatic defeated Dutch Mantell & Kevin Sullivan Bam Bam Bigelow defeated Joey Colbin Mike Rotundo defeated Bruce Martin NWA World title: Ric Flair defeated Hawk by disqualification (World Championship Wrestling; Metro Centre) Halifax, NS: May 8, 1990 Eddie Watts & Pat Brady defeated Paul Peller & Wayne Gillis Steve Casey defeated Super Destroyer Stephen Pettipas defeated Gerry Morrow Ron Starr defeated Leo Burke The Beast defeated Cuban Assassin (Atlantic Grand Prix; Halifax Forum) Halifax, NS: July 27, 1989 Referee: Bruce Martin Sinn defeated Kingman to win the ACW Heavyweight title Jason Bates defeated Flesh Gordon by DQ Mixed Tag Team: Stevie Lee & Tracy Brooks defeated Elvis Elliot & Shiva Fabian Stokes defeated Gavriel Brimstone (Atlantic Coast Wrestling) Moncton, NB: July 23, 2002 Bobby Rude vs. Mike Hughes Stephen Pettipas & Buddy Lane vs. Corporal Chaos & UFO Scottish Pub Match: Duke MacIsaac vs. Custom Made Man Kingman vs. Sinn El Fuego vs. Flesh Gordon (Real Action Wrestling; Halifax Forum) Halifax, NS: Oct 20, 2001 the UFO in Chilliwack, British Columbia in 1993 is probably Dellaserra. And this is probably someone unrelated Saguenay, QC: June 27, 2014 (Top of the World Wrestling) Paul Goliath defeated Sylvain Grenier to win the Top of the World title Spark & Toxique defeated Markus Blade & Emilio Alextreme defeated Dgenerate Dann Damage defeated Barabas Johnny the Star & Mac Storm defeated Jim Harrison & Scottish UFO Jean Frais defeated Boris Sadikoff 4-way: Matt Angel defeated Buxx Belmar, Eddy Hunter & Volkano