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Euro Catch Festival
Euro Catch Festival was an annual professional wrestling event produced by Catch Wrestling Association (CWA) between 1991 and 1999. The event was hailed as the company's flagship event and the biggest event of the year. Two editions of the event were held once a year; the July event was held in Graz, Austria and the December event was held in Bremen, Germany. The 1999 edition of the event was the final CWA show as the promotion closed after that event. Luc Poirier, Rambo headlined all of the events with the exception of the July 1996 edition which was headlined by Tony Halme, Ludvig Borga and August Smisl. All the events were headlined by a match for the promotion's top Professional wrestling championship, title, the prestigious CWA World Heavyweight Championship, with the exception of the 1999 event, which was headlined by a CWA World Middleweight Championship match between Franz Schumann and El Zorro (wrestler), Jesus Cristobal, which would be the final match in CWA history. Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Wanz
Otto Wanz (June 13, 1943 – September 14, 2017) was an Austrian professional wrestler and Boxing, boxer. He made his professional wrestling debut in 1968. He is a one time American Wrestling Association champion and former operator of the Catch Wrestling Association, where he was the promotion's inaugural CWA World Heavyweight Championship, World Heavyweight Champion, winning the title CWA World Heavyweight Championship#Title history, four times. He is overall a five-time World Heavyweight Championship (professional wrestling), world champion and the longest reigning world champion in Europe. Professional wrestling career Born in Nestelbach bei Graz, Nestelbach, Austria on June 13, 1943, Wanz made his professional wrestling debut in 1968 in his native Austria. Later on he would work as "Bulldog" Otto in Japan, primarily working for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). In the early 1970s he created the Catch Wrestling Association (CWA) based in Austria but promoting shows in the surrou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |