Sándor Szabó (wrestler)
| Sandor Szabo | |
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| File:Portrait of Sandor Szabo LCCN2004663601.jpg
Sándor Szabó (1933)
Photo by Carl Van Vechten |
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| Born | January 4, 1906 Hungary |
| Died | October 16, 1966 Los Angeles, California, US |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Debut | 1930 |
| Retired | 1963 |
Sándor Szabó (January 4, 1906 – October 16, 1966) was a Hungarian-born professional wrestler who emigrated to America.[1]
At first, due to his large size, he was promoted by Jack Pfefer and Jack Curley of New York City as a "freak talent", one of a number of foreign and extraordinary wrestlers booked to attract the curious.[2] In the early 1940s, Szabo held three world championships. In the 1950s, he was quite popular in Southern California, where he was assistant booker to Jules Strongbow,[3] and held tag team championships in Los Angeles and San Francisco. He also sang a song during the 1950s for Hammerlock Records called "Hold Me in Your Arms".[4] He wrestled his last match in 1963. In 2000, he was inducted into the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame. He died of a heart attack at the age of 60.
Championships and accomplishments
- 50th State Big Time Wrestling
- American Wrestling Association
- AWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- California State Athletic Commission
- Montreal Athletic Commission
- NWA Hollywood Wrestling
- NWA "Beat the Champ" Television Championship (8 times)
- WWA International Television Tag Team Championship (7 times) - with Wilbur Snyder (2), Bobo Brazil (1), Gene Stanlee (1), Billy Darnell (1) and Edouard Carpentier (2)[6]
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (Los Angeles version) (1 time) - with Billy Darnell
- NWA San Francisco
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (San Francisco version) (2 times) - with Primo Carnera (1) and Ron Etchison (1)
- National Wrestling Association
- Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum
- Class of 2013[7]
- Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards
References
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- ↑ The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: Heroes & Icons Steven Johnson, Greg Oliver, Mike Mooneyham - 2012 "SANDOR SZABO... — an amateur standout in or all his accomplishments in Europe, a multi-time world pro champion — it took a broken thumb to promote Sandor Szabo to the top rank of pop culture. In late 1952, Szabo, who left the word ““bashful” back in Hungary when he emigrated to the United States, announced he'd ' croon ““White Christmas” on a TV wrestling show in Los Angeles if he ..."
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- Hungarian professional wrestlers
- 1966 deaths
- 1906 births
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- Burials at Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery, Santa Monica
- Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum
- Hungarian emigrants to the United States
- 20th-century male professional wrestlers
- NWA "Beat the Champ" Television Champions
