October 10th in the Time Tunnel:
Happy Birthday to those who have passed on and to those great wrestlers still with us:
In Memoriam:
The Great Antonio 1925
Ripper Collins 1933
Giant Haystacks\Loch Ness 1946
Happy Birthday:
Gene Ligon (75)
Tony Khan (43)
Ilja Dragunov (32)
RIP Memorial: We stop & remember those who have passed on this day and gave themselves to the business for us, the fans. We salute you and thank you.
Tony Stecher 10-10-1954 at the age of 65
One Thing I Learned Today About Pro Wrestling History
Independently wealthy from his decades in the wrestling business, Stecher began a wrestling office as a promoter in Minneapolis. He was taken by the city after a trip in the early 1930s and relocated his family from Nebraska to Minnesota in 1933. His first program was on February 21, 1933, with the wrestling debut of football star Bronko Nagurski. Stecher achieved great success and became the nation’s top wrestling promoter. He formed business relationships with various promoters in neighboring states and aided an upstart Sam Muchnick in created his territory in St. Louis, sending him wrestlers to help the outfit grow and was one of the founding members of the National Wrestling Alliance in Waterloo, Iowa in 1948.
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