Little Beaver Little Beaver Lionel Giroux (1934–1995) was a Canadian professional wrestler who began his wrestling career in 1949, at the age of fifteen. He, and Sky Low, Low, became one of the most famous midget wrestlers team. Tacking a…
Rocky Johnson Wayde Douglas Bowles (1944-2020) was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, and is descended from Black Loyalists who fled a plantation in the United States. At 16, he moved to Toronto. Initially, he trained to be a boxer and…
Whipper Billy Watson Whipper Billy Watson, or William John Potts (East York, Ontario, 1915–1990) was a Canadian professional wrestler, stage name “Whipper.” Billy Watson was the world champion twice, winning the National Wrestling Association and National Wrestling Alliance titles. He started wrestling at…
Patrick O’Connor Middle name John, 1924–1990, New Zealand, meant to be a sheep farmer but served for six months in the New Zealand Royal Air Force in 1945, working as a blacksmith to pay the bills. To train before entering the…
Buddy Rogers 1921–1992 immigrants from Germany. American professional wrestlers with the ring name “Nature Boy” became one of the biggest professional wrestling stars at the beginning of the television era and influential future professional wrestlers. He held the top championship in NWA and the WWWF,…
Pro-wrestling is entertainment that has a simple story that is easily understood by the audience, with good versus evil resolving their issues through violence, a very popular and problematic concept. This form of entertainment appeals to a certain male adolescent…
Sweet Daddy Siki Reginald Siki, born 1940, is an American-Canadian professional wrestler and singer. Stage name Sweet Daddy Siki, the first African American to compete for the N.W.A. World Heavyweight Championship. Started wrestling in 1955 moved to Toronto in 1961…
Gene Kiniski Eugene Nicholas Kiniski, is a Canadian, successful professional wrestler, recognized as a multiple-time world heavyweight champion. Before that, he played football for Edmonton, his home town. Billed himself as “Canada’s Greatest Athlete.” It must have been hard to be the…
Gorgeous George George Raymond Wagner, 1915-1963, a professional wrestler known for his flamboyant effeminate Pretty-Boy, if not outright drag queen, who constantly implied homosexuality but never outright stated it. Crating archetypal, a gimmick that, because of his predilections using tactics of lying and cheating every dirty trick, inflaming the…
My friend said they were interested in writing a book. I volunteered to create artwork, being interested in creating. Unfortunately, the full story never came, just the outline. So these drawings represent events in the character’s timeline or development. Graphic…
