Issue 93 (July 17th, 2025) Tragos\Thesz Hall of Fame Weekend in Waterloo, Iowa, Birthdays, RIP Salute, MORE

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It's late and I just got to Waterloo...I'm tried...details below once we do our wrestler salutes for today.

July 17th in the Time Tunnel:

Happy Birthday to those who have passed on and to those great wrestlers still with us:

In Memoriam:

Frankie Talaber 1912

Edouard Carpentier 1926

Jean Antone 1943

Randy "Pee Wee" Anderson 1959

Shannon Sprull\Daffney 1975

Happy Birthday:

Michael Hettings\Mike Knox (47)

Dean Muhtadi\Mojo Rawley (39)

Lacey Adkisson\Lacey Von Erich (39)

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.

Gus Schoenlein\Americus 7-17-1958 at the age of 74

Paul Bowser 7-17-1960 at the age of 74

Frank Goodish\Bruiser Brody 7-16-1988 at the age of 42

Al "King Kong" Kashey 7-17-2005 at. the age of 75

Dale Mann 7-17-2017 at the age of 78

George Tragos\Lou Thesz Hall of Fame in Waterloo, Iowa

I got into Waterloo last night right about 8pm, checked in, took my bags upstairs, found my parking for the vehicle, stopped by the bar and ordered some dinner and brought it to the room and now its 10pm.

I met some friends in the bar while I was waiting on my food.

I plan on doing a video update tomorrow morning from here on the schedule and the things that I am looking forward to this year, so be looking for that.

I do feel a little nostalgic thinking back to 1948 when Pinkie George suggested the six booking offices meet at the Hotel President to discuss forming a cooperative organization that became the NWA.

I'll be writing more about the meeting and some other things while I'm here.

One Thing I Learned Today About Pro Wrestling History

Gus Schoenlein, also known as Americus, wrestled George Hackenschmidt in Baltimore, Maryland on Saturday, March 21st, 1908 and Hackenschmidt failed to throw Americus in fifteen minutes. Hackenschmidt weighed 208 to Americus' 174.

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