TWWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time).IWA World Heavyweight Championship (Chicago version) (1 time).World Heavyweight Championship (Omaha version) (1 time).Atlantic Athletic Commission World Heavyweight Championship (1 time).Championships and accomplishments Carpentier in 2010. Carpentier had been in poor health for many years, battered from his acrobatic, high-flying style. He had also suffered a heart attack in 2000. On 30 October 2010, Carpentier died of a heart attack at his home in Montreal, aged 84. He was replaced by former Québécois wrestler Raymond Rougeau in 1992. They hosted the French edition of the WWF television show Superstars, sold to French-speaking countries.
He also operated in the early 1980s as a babyface colour commentator, alongside heel play-by-play host Guy Hauray, for the Montreal-based Lutte Internationale, and then, together for the World Wrestling Federation, when the WWF bought the Montreal territory in 1985.
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In solo matches at the Garden, he defeated Giant Baba, Skull Murphy, Magnificent Maurice, and Hans Mortier.Īfter his retirement, Carpentier operated a school for teaching professional wrestling skills. He teamed numerous times with Antonino Rocca, as well as with Vittorio Apollo. They had two main events against Buddy Rogers & Handsome Johnny Barend another against Rogers & Killer Kowalski. The Omaha *le was unified with the AWA World Heavyweight Championship in 1963.Ĭarpentier headlined Madison Square Garden three times in 1962 with tag team partner Bobo Brazil. He eventually dropped the belt to Verne Gagne. He was later recognized as the first holder of the Omaha version of the World Heavyweight Championship. This led to the split of the NWA and led to the creation of other organizations, all with their own world *les. Some NWA territories and officials recognized the disputed win as a legitimate *le change, while others did not. He won the *le in a disputed contest against Lou Thesz on 14 June 1957. The highpoint of his career was his NWA World Heavyweight Championship reign from 1956 to 1957. He was always a fan favourite in his bouts and was matched against numerous villains, perhaps the most well known of whom was the legendary Killer Kowalski. Professional wrestling career Carpentier (middle) being interviewed by Jack Curran while André the Giant looks on.Īt the outset of his career, Carpentier wrestled in Europe as "Eddy Wiechoski".Ĭarpentier was a crowd favourite, one of the first wrestlers to delight fans with acrobatic leaps from the turnbuckles and a variety of other aerial manoeuvres such as the rope-aided twisting headscissors. He also became an all around athlete with gymnastic skills. He moved to Montreal, Quebec in 1956 and became a Canadian citizen. He joined the French resistance during World War II under the German occupation and was awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Croix du combattant medals by the French government at the close of the war. Weiczorkiewicz was born in 1926 in Roanne, Loire, France to a Russian father and a Polish mother. Nicknamed "The Flying Frenchman", Carpentier was known for his athletic manoeuvres including "back flips, cartwheels and somersaults". Over the course of his career, Carpentier held multiple world heavyweight championships, including the NWA World Heavyweight Championship and the WWA World Heavyweight Championship. But because I was most important athlete in the country and best fighter in the world, they let me do training for my Greco-Roman wrestling instead of me beind a soldier who kill people," he explained.Édouard Ignacz Weiczorkiewicz (Russian: Эдуард Виецз J– October 30, 2010) was a French-born Canadian professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Édouard Carpentier. So I have to go to Army, which make me pay my dues so I leave the country. This make me very nervous because I was behind him, number two, and he teach me and help me become best wrestler in the world. (.) I believe somebody important kill him. He was wrestler and he was most important athlete, celebrity, human being in the country. I have to leave the Iran because at the time the Reza Takhti was the Michael Jordan of Iran. "I had to go to the Army for me to leave the Iran. In an interview with Vice, the 80-year-old spoke about his time in the military, disclosing that he had to go to the Army to be able to leave his home country. He grew up in a working-class family before later joining the Iranian Army. The Iron Sheikh was born in Iran in 1942. Although he is one of the most legendary performers in WWE history, some fans may not know that The Iron Sheikh has legitimately served in the Iranian Army.
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