America's love for professional wrestling dates back many years before Wrestlemania, Hulk Hogan and Vince McMahon. The merchandising of professional wrestling had to be as exciting as the show itself because it sold the tickets.
In real life, he was Harold Watanabe, a native Hawaiian. In the ring, he was Tojo Yamamoto, tough Japanese wrestler who was one of the South's best wrestling draws from the early 1960's to the mid 1980's.
Nick Gulas operated what was at once the largest wrestling promotion in the South. Fans returned week after week to his wrestling cards from the 1940's until the late 1970's.
Dating back to 1939, the Angels were a group of enormously successful wrestling characters. Maurice Tillet, the French Angel, was a main stream celebrity in his day. Another, Tor Johnson, has become a modern day cult figure.
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