Local Wrestlers (appearing On Studio Wrestling)
The list of wrestlers who appeared on the show reads like a who's who of American Pro Wrestling. Bruno Sammartino was undoubtedly the most popular and was able to help the WWWF to claim Pittsburgh as part of its territory as far as the NWA was concerned. Giant Baba wrestled on the show. George Steele (The Animal) got his start on the east coast by appearing on the show. Previously, Steele (real name: William James Meyers) had wrestled in his native Detroit in a mask as "The Student".
Killer Joe Abbey, real name Joseph Abbenante (who also wrestled as the masked Red Demon)
Billy Darnell
Jumping Johnny De Fazio
Dominic DeNucci
Frank "Slip Mahoney" Durso
Ace Freeman (real name: Zoltan Friedman)
Fred "The Tiger" Geiger
Frank "Carnegie Cop" Holtz
Bobby "Hurricane" Hunt
Zivko Kovacic
Tony "The Battman" Marino (wore a full Batman outfit taking off his cape when he wrestled)
Chuck Martoni (later became Mayor of a Pittsburgh suburb-Swissvale)
Ron Mattucci
Carlo Milano
"Polish" Pat Atlas
Bepo Mongol (real name: Josip Perusovic) (Nikolai Volkoff)
Geeto Mongol
Ron Romano
Bruno Sammartino (WWWF champ. In Pittsburgh, was announced as simply "World Champ".)
John Valiant (John L. Sullivan) (real name: Thomas Sullivan)
Chet Wallick
Chief White Owl, real name George Dahmer
Larry Zbyszko, real name Larry Whisler
Baron Mikel Scicluna
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