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Hi,

here are the results of the Catch Europe Tour 1978

- the fight between Bock and Inoki on 25.11.1978 in Stuttgart was booked as "WWU vs. WWA Championship"

Bock won the VDB Title on 09.04.1978 in Stuttgart. WWU and WWA are fictional Titles, which was created my the management himself (Bock and VDB Manager Paul Berger). Berger was the matchmaker of this tour and i think he created some "Storys", that will be published ...

Hi,

i have published for a few months the European Matches of Karel Istaz ("Karl Gotch") for legacyofwrestling.com. He wrestled in Europe under his real name.


Karel Istaz ("Karl Gotch")

10.03.1951 – Manchester
Karel Istaz def. Big Bill Benny

04.04.1951 - Manchester
Karel Istaz def. Jack Pye

07.04.1951 - Manchester
Karel Istaz def. Dave Armstrong

11.04.1951 - Manchester
Karel Istaz vs. Ernest Baldwin

04.05.1951 - Liverpool
Karel Istaz def. Dave Armstrong

12.05.1951 – Manchester
Karel ...

Hi,

in the 1980s Scotish Historian James Craig and German Historian Gerhard Schäfer worked together and published the Bert Assirati Record Book. In germany Schäfer published this under the name "Wrestling Archives No. 18 - Bert Assirati".

According to these record Assirati made his debut as a professional wrestler on 28.10.1928 in London against Robert Cook. He defeated Cook. First he trained under Coach Guido Ronga in the Ashdown Club. At this time he was ...

Hi,

following I will published some Infos about the german promotion IBV; so you can written this on your Page under "Austria and Germany"

This is really complicated, so i have published this in an easy way, did you can understand this

IBV stands for:

Internationaler Berufsringkämpfer Verband

founded: 20.09.1947
incorporated as IBV in Hamburg on 20.02.1948
closed around 1997

Main-Promoters:

Gustl Kaiser (1947-76)
Nicola Selenkowitsch (1965-86)
Gerd Völlink (1988-97)

Co-Promoter under Kaiser was Georg ...

Hi,

i have found this on wrestling-titles.com:

Georg Hackenschmidt 05/05/04 New York, NY
Has been recognized as world greco-roman champion in Europe as of 1900/04; also has won the world championship tournaments in Vienna, Paris, Hamburg, St. Petersburg, Elberfield, and Berlin in 1901; wins European Greco-Roman title from Tom Cannon on 02/09/04 in Liverpool, GBR; wins recognition as World champion on 04/01/30 in London, GBR, defeating Ahmed Madrali; defeats American title holder Tom Jenkins on ...

David Ditch of Inside Pulse recently interviewed me:

Part 1

http://www.puroresu.com/forum/general/5 ... -area.html

Hey,

here is a information about the german promoter Edmund Schober. For a few months a don't know the exact debut of his shows in Hannover. But in 1971 Schober had written a newspaper article. He said himself that he debuted in Hannover in 1964. I think that was right, because after 1955 there were no wrestling in Hannover. Promoter Rudolf Kalweit held his last tournament here in 1955. Then in 1964 Schober took over ...

Former JWA & New Japan wrestler Kantarō Hoshino passed away on 2010/11/25.

RIP...

Was there a tournament for this title when it was vacant in 1980 or was Bret Hart vs. Kengo Kimura a top contenders match? If it was a tournament do you have the full results?