Kurt and Karl Von Steiger were the

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Lorne Corlett (died November 8, 2022) and Arnold Pastrick worked under for most of their careers. The Von Steiger

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was that of two German villains, called

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, despite both wrestlers hailing from

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, Canada. Arnold Pastrick used the name Kurt Von Steiger, and Lorne Corlett worked as Karl Von Steiger. The Von Steigers are best known for competing in

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between 1968 and 1973 but also competed in Tennessee, San Francisco,

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, Australia, the American Wrestling Alliance and the Carolina territory.

Professional wrestling history

Arnold Pastrick made his professional wrestling debut in 1959 in his native

, Canada and worked for the local Madison Wrestling Club promotion as a solid mid-card

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. Lorne Corlett made his debut in 1960, working for the Madison Wrestling Club under the ring name "Butcher Boy" Corlett. In 1965, Corlett won the MWC Heavyweight Championship and held it for over 6 months. When the Madison Wrestling Club folded in 1968, the two men formed a

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and adopted a German gimmick — not an overtly

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ring persona, but instead playing off the imagery of

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Germany complete with spiked helmets. The gimmick was a strange choice for Pastrick because his parents were Polish and had been held in a

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during

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Von Steigers

The Von Steigers first became noticed as a team in the

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-based

, where they won the

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in 1967, their first title as a team. After working in the Stampede Territory for a while, the duo moved on, leaving Canada to begin working for the promotion most synonymous with the Von Steigers,

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in Portland. In Portland, the team really came into their own and they found success as the Von Steigers; the fans despised the duo, and the partners quickly rose up the card. Their fellow wrestlers held the team in great respect because they were good "ring generals", in other words they were good at controlling the flow of the match, keeping the pre-planned story on track. While working in Portland, the Von Steigers engaged in several storylines with other Portland based teams, such as

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("Lord"

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and

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) and the team of

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and

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. The Von Steigers held the

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seven times, defeating such teams as Moondog Mayne and Beauregarde,

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and Johnny War Eagle and the pairing of Tony Borne and Moondog Mayne. Kurt Von Steiger also saw singles success in Portland, winning and holding the

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briefly in 1970 and again in 1971. In early 1971, Portland territory owner Don Owen and Mad Dog Vachon, who were close friends, planned to have the Vachon Brothers (

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and

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) lose the

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to the Von Steigers. Although the Von Steigers won the championship, the title change was never officially recognized by the AWA. The problem was that the Vachons had not gotten permission from

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(AWA) owner

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to lose the titles to the Von Steigers. The Vachons lost the AWA titles to the Von Steigers on February 23, 1971 and then went on a tour of the Orient; when they returned three weeks later, the Vachons "regained" the titles on a technicality. The team kept working for NWA Pacific Northwest but also did the occasional tour of other promotions, such as the NWA Mid-Pacific promotion in

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. On September 10, 1969, the Von Steigers defeated

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for the

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, but lost the title belts back to Morales and Francis a month later. In 1971 the team toured Australia working for the Australian version of

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, where they defeated

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and

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for the

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and held the titles until they were replaced with the

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. In 1972 Kurt Von Steiger bought a share of a wrestling promotion in

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and decided to settle down there. Karl Von Steiger, on the other hand, decided to keep on traveling the world while wrestling, which led to the Von Steigers splitting up.

Singles career - Kurt Von Steiger

Kurt Von Steiger remained in Phoenix and took part in running the local wrestling promotion called "Universal Wrestling Federation" (later changed to "Universal Wrestling Alliance") and also training people to become professional wrestlers. In 1973 Von Steiger defeated Chris Colt to win the UWF Arizona Heavyweight Championship. In Arizona Von Steiger trained several notable wrestlers;

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, "Big" Bill Anderson and

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. After the Phoenix promotion folded Kurt Von Steiger returned to the NWA Pacific Northwest promotion where he held the NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team Championship two more times, with

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and Mati Suzuki. He later retired from wrestling and started up a septic tank business in Oregon.

Singles career - Karl Von Steiger

Karl briefly worked in Phoenix and held the UWA Western States Tag Team Championship with Tito Montez, losing it to Chris Colt and one of Kurt Von Steiger's students Bobby Jaggers, who worked as Bobby Mayne at the time. After leaving the Phoenix Territory he started working in

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's NWA Western States territory based out of

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. In 1972 Von Steiger teamed up with

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to win the

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, a title he would also hold in 1974, this time with Siegfried Stanke. Karl also won the

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from

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and held it for six months before losing it to

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. In April 1973 Killer Karl Krupp chose Kurt Von Steiger to replace

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as one half of the

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. When the promotion closed shortly after Von Steiger and Krupp took the belts with them to Texas and gave them to Dory Funk to use. In 1974 Karl Von Steiger engaged in a prolonged storyline with future World Champion

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centering on the Western States Heavyweight Championship. Von Steiger would win the title from Backlund on two occasions in 1974. In 1975 Von Steiger moved on to

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, where he began to work for

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' NWA Mid-America territory. In NWA Mid-America Von Steiger would team with another "German", Otto Von Heller, like Steiger he too was only pretending to be German. The team defeated George Gulas and

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to win the NWA Mid-America Tag Team Championship on May 26, 1975. Soon after, the team of Von Steiger and Von Heller defeated Fargo and Gulas once again, this time for the NWA Mid-America U.S. Tag Team Championship and held it until August 1975 when they lost to the team of

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and

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. The team's biggest success came when they won NWA Mid-America's main tag team title, the NWA Mid-America Southern Tag Team Championship from the team of

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and Tojo Yamamoto, a title they would win once more in 1975. After breaking up with Von Heller Karl worked various other southern territories, never settling down in one particular place long enough.

Von Steiger reunion

In 1977 the Von Steigers reunited for one more run as a tag team. They worked in the NWA San Francisco territory where they won the vacant San Francisco version of the

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in a tournament. They would lose the titles to longtime rival Moondog Mayne and local star

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but quickly regained the titles. On January 12, 1978, the Von Steigers lost the titles for good as the team of Black Gordman and Goliath defeated them. Following the loss Kurt Von Steiger retired while Karl wrestled for another couple of years, semi-retiring at the end of 1979, but would return for tours of All Japan during 1980, 1981, 1984, 1986, and 1987.

Championships and accomplishments

Kurt and Karl Von Steiger

* Big Time Wrestling ''(San Francisco)'' :* NWA World Tag Team Championship (''San Francisco version'') (

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) * NWA Mid-Pacific :*

( 1 time) *

( 7 times) *

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( 1 time) *

(Australia) :*

( 3 times)

Kurt Von Steiger and Arnold Pastrick

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ESA International Tag Team Championship Eastern Sports Association The Eastern Sports Association, often referred to in the business simply as "the Maritimes," was a Canadian professional wrestling promotion based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It ran during the spring and summer months fro ...

( 1 time) - with Fred Sweetan *

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( 1 time) - with Tito Montez *

(

) :*

(

) - with

(1), and Mati Suzuki (1) *Universal Wrestling Federation (Arizona) :*UWF Arizona Heavyweight Championship (1 time) *UWA/WSWA :*UWA/WSWA Western States Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Tito Montez

Karl Von Steiger and Lorne Corlett

( 1 time) - with Killer Karl Krupp *Madison Wrestling Club :*MWC Heavyweight Championship (1 time) * NWA Mid-Pacific :*

NWA Hawaii Heavyweight Championship The NWA Hawaii Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling championship sanctioned by the National Wrestling Alliance and is defended in the US state of Hawaii. The title, which is still currently defended, began in 1935. From February ...

( 1 time) *

NWA Mid-America NWA Mid-America was a professional wrestling promotion territory under the umbrella of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) that promoted shows in Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama from the 1940s until 1981. The company was founded in the 1940s by N ...

NWA Mid-America Tag Team Championship The NWA Mid-America Tag Team championship was a tag team title promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion NWA Mid-America that ran more or less exclusively in Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky, United States, from the 1940s until 1 ...

( 1 time) - with Otto von Heller :* NWA Mid-America Southern Tag Team Championship (

) - with Otto von Heller :*

NWA United States Tag Team Championship (Mid-America version) The Mid-America version of the NWA United States Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling tag team championship and promoted by the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA)'s NWA Mid-America territory from 1962 until 1976. The title was intende ...

(1 time) - with Otto von Heller *

( 3 times) :*

( 4 times) - with Hans Mueller (1),

(1), The Patriot (1) and Zeigfried Steinke (1)

References

External links

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