Professional Wrestling History
Arnold Pastrick made his professional wrestling debut in 1959 in his native Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and worked for the local Madison Wrestling Club promotion as a solid mid-card face. 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 tag team and adopted a German gimmick — not an overtly Nazi ring persona, but instead playing off the imagery of World War I Germany complete with spiked helmets. The gimmick was a strange choice for Pastrick because his parents were Polish and had been held in a Concentration camp during World War II.
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