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Y ou don't see them much in today's wrestling, but back in the 1980s and 90s, a lot of wrestlers came to the ring with a female manager or valet. The most famous of them was Miss Elizabeth, who ...
You see the title of John Capouya’s biography of Gorgeous George – which claims the flamboyant wrestler “created pop culture” – and you are struck by its audacity. A w… ...
Savage used Gorgeous George as his last wrestling valet ; The Macho Man would continually tweak his character and evolution throughout his career. While Savage never changed the intensity, ...
George “Gorgeous George” Arena, a 1940s-era wrestler who pranced around in full-length silk robes and had his wavy platinum-blond mane set between falls, died on Thursday in Boca Raton after a ...
In professional wrestling first golden age, its top star was "Gorgeous George." His appearance at the State Fairgrounds in 1948 broke Syracuse wrestling attendance records.
WrestleMania has always been about glamour, celebrity and wrestling, and Gorgeous George could deliver all of those things. George Raymond Wagner was just born a few decades too early to be a part ...
Perhaps few of today’s fans saw him wrestle, yet most everyone has heard of Gorgeous George. Now author John Capouya presents “Gorgeous George: the Outrageous Bad-Boy Wrestler Who Creat… ...
Josh Gad is reportedly writing a Gorgeous George biopic for WWE Studios, who've decided to actually make a movie about pro wrestling. ... a movie about Macho Man Randy Savage’s WCW valet, ...
'Gorgeous George' Wagner became one of the most popular wrestlers of the 1940s and 1950s thanks to his athleticism, ... Curious about wrestling's Gorgeous George ... George has a valet, ...
Wrestling legend Gorgeous George had as many self-congratulatory nicknames—the Toast of the Coast, Sensation of the Nation, the Human Orchid—as he had lavish, ermine-trimmed robes, and he had ...