Édouard Carpentier

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Édouard Carpentier was a Canadian professional wrestler who garnered several world championships in a career that spanned the 1950s into the 1970s.

[edit] Career

Born Edouard Wiercowicz on July 17, 1926 in Rouannes, Loire, France to a Russian father and a Polish mother, he joined the French underground resistance during the period of German occupation during WW2, and was subsequently awarded medals by the French government at the close of the war.

He moved to Montreal, Canada and became an all around athlete with great gymnastic skills. An early proponent of "scientific" wrestling, Carpentier was a crowd favorite who delighted fans with acrobatic leaps from the turnbuckles and a variety of other aerial manoeuvres such as "flying head scissors." He was always a face, or "good guy," in his bouts, and was paired with numerous villains, perhaps the most well known of whom was the legendary Killer Kowalski.

After his retirement, Carpentier operated a school for teaching professional wrestling skills.

[edit] Championships and Accomplishments

• Atlantic Athletic Commission

• World Heavyweight Champion (Boston version) (1 time)

• Independent

• World Heavyweight Champion (Omaha version) (1 time)

• International Wrestling Alliance

• IWA World Heavyweight Champion (Chicago version) (1 time)

• Montreal Athletic Commission/International Wrestling Alliance

• International Heavyweight Champion (Montreal version) (5 times)

• National Wrestling Alliance

• NWA World Heavyweight Champion (1 time; unofficial)
• NWA America's Heavyweight Champion (1 time)

• World Wrestling Association

• WWA World Heavyweight Champion (2 times)
• WWA World Tag Team Champion (1 time) - with Bob Ellis

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