Greece: 1940-1949
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1940
Greece
This year "was similar to 1939 in that there were still shows going on, but seemingly things were slowing down in terms of the number of events being run. Harry Karpozilos and Paraschos Boras were the two main headliners during the year. Jim Spanos as well, but only during the first few months of the year.
...
Guys like Christos Kadas and Christos Melissovas were also around and building up their reputations. Who wasn't around, however, was Georgios Kleitomachos as 1940 saw him wrestling in Argentina and I don't have any mentions of him wrestling in Greece at all post-1939." - Phil Lions
Greece
This year "was similar to 1939 in that there were still shows going on, but seemingly things were slowing down in terms of the number of events being run. Harry Karpozilos and Paraschos Boras were the two main headliners during the year. Jim Spanos as well, but only during the first few months of the year.
...
Guys like Christos Kadas and Christos Melissovas were also around and building up their reputations. Who wasn't around, however, was Georgios Kleitomachos as 1940 saw him wrestling in Argentina and I don't have any mentions of him wrestling in Greece at all post-1939." - Phil Lions
FEBRUARY 1940
FEBRUARY 25, 1940 (SUNDAY)
Perroke Theatre, Athens, Greece
1 - Jim Spanos Vs. Aldo Spinelli (of Italy),
Result Unknown
FEBRUARY 1940
FEBRUARY 25, 1940 (SUNDAY)
Perroke Theatre, Athens, Greece
1 - Jim Spanos Vs. Aldo Spinelli (of Italy),
Result Unknown
SEPTEMBER 1940
SEPTEMBER 22, 1940 (SUNDAY)
Athens, Greece
1 - Harry Karpozilos def. Elias Panagos
Notes:
Karpozilos was a middleweight.
Panagos a heavyweight.
OCTOBER 1940
OCTOBER 6, 1940 (SUNDAY)
Athens, Greece
1 - Greek Championship
Paraschos Boras def. Harry Karpozilos
OCTOBER 1940
OCTOBER 6, 1940 (SUNDAY)
Athens, Greece
1 - Greek Championship
Paraschos Boras def. Harry Karpozilos
1941 (no results)
1942 (no results)
1943 (no results)
1944 (no results)
1945
Greece
"Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find any Greek newspapers from January 1941 through May 1945 and because of that I have no idea what was going on in Greece during that time. I would imagine not a whole though, these being the years of WWII and all.
Our story picks back up again in May of 1945. Not much seemed to be happening until July and then in July a series of big shows started in Thessaloniki. While the shows in the capital Athens were still relatively small ones, wrestling in Thessaloniki (the second biggest Greek city) seemed to have caught fire.
One notable name was missing from Athens and that was Boras. Shortly after his bout with Lambrakis in Thessaloniki Boras went to wrestle overseas in Egypt, where he would spent several months. Jim Spanos, another one of the top Greek names during this time, wasn't around either. " - Phil Lions
Greece
"Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find any Greek newspapers from January 1941 through May 1945 and because of that I have no idea what was going on in Greece during that time. I would imagine not a whole though, these being the years of WWII and all.
Our story picks back up again in May of 1945. Not much seemed to be happening until July and then in July a series of big shows started in Thessaloniki. While the shows in the capital Athens were still relatively small ones, wrestling in Thessaloniki (the second biggest Greek city) seemed to have caught fire.
One notable name was missing from Athens and that was Boras. Shortly after his bout with Lambrakis in Thessaloniki Boras went to wrestle overseas in Egypt, where he would spent several months. Jim Spanos, another one of the top Greek names during this time, wasn't around either. " - Phil Lions
JULY 1945
JULY 30, 1945 (MONDAY)
PAOK Stadium, Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece
Attendance: 8,000
1 - Andreas Lambrakis def. Harry Karpozilos
JULY 1945
JULY 30, 1945 (MONDAY)
PAOK Stadium, Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece
Attendance: 8,000
1 - Andreas Lambrakis def. Harry Karpozilos
SEPTEMBER 1945
SEPTEMBER 21, 1945 (FRIDAY)
PAOK Stadium, Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece
Attendance: 12,000
1 - Paraschos Boras def. Andreas Lambrakis
(01:18:00)
SEPTEMBER 1945
SEPTEMBER 21, 1945 (FRIDAY)
PAOK Stadium, Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece
Attendance: 12,000
1 - Paraschos Boras def. Andreas Lambrakis
(01:18:00)
OCTOBER 1945
OCTOBER 15, 1945 (MONDAY)
PAOK Stadium, Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece
Attendance: 10,000
1 - Andreas Lambrakis def. Meintanis
(01:24:00)
Notes:
Possibly happened on October 16, 1945.
[Meintanis debuted in 1933 and was one of the more established names in Greek pro-wrestling]
OCTOBER 1945
OCTOBER 15, 1945 (MONDAY)
PAOK Stadium, Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece
Attendance: 10,000
1 - Andreas Lambrakis def. Meintanis
(01:24:00)
Notes:
Possibly happened on October 16, 1945.
[Meintanis debuted in 1933 and was one of the more established names in Greek pro-wrestling]
NOVEMBER 1945
NOVEMBER 4, 1945 (SUNDAY)
Athens, Greece
Attendance: 2,000
1 - Nikolaos Iliopoulos def. Harry Karpozilos
(00:35:00)
NOVEMBER 1945
NOVEMBER 4, 1945 (SUNDAY)
Athens, Greece
Attendance: 2,000
1 - Nikolaos Iliopoulos def. Harry Karpozilos
(00:35:00)
1946
Greece
"As best as I can tell 1946 was the year when the Athens scene somewhat returned to how it was before 1939, i.e. there were somewhat regular weekly shows and sometimes even two shows per week. They were still running mostly theater and cinema halls, usually on Sundays. The biggest venue was probably Perroke Theater, which could hold up to 3,000 fans. As of 1946 the main Greek stars were Harry Karpozilos, Andreas Lambrakis, Paraschos Boras, Nikolaos Iliopoulos and Jim Spanos, with guys like Elias Panagos, Meintanis, Georgios Papadakis, Christos Melissovas and Christos Kadas right below them. All of them were wrestlers who got their start in the 1930s. Most of the Athens shows in 1946 were headlined by Karpozilos.
...
There were a lot of shows outside of Athens in 1946. More than any other year up to that point. At least based on my records. Thessaloniki, Chios, Alexandroupolis, Chalcis, Nicosia, Komotini, Limasol, etc. were some of the places that had wrestling shows in 1946. The island of Chios was an interesting one. It seems that Jim Spanos had settled there and was headlining a number of shows at a local stadium there.
...
Meintanis and Melissovas headlined some shows in Thessaloniki as well." - Phil Lions
Greece
"As best as I can tell 1946 was the year when the Athens scene somewhat returned to how it was before 1939, i.e. there were somewhat regular weekly shows and sometimes even two shows per week. They were still running mostly theater and cinema halls, usually on Sundays. The biggest venue was probably Perroke Theater, which could hold up to 3,000 fans. As of 1946 the main Greek stars were Harry Karpozilos, Andreas Lambrakis, Paraschos Boras, Nikolaos Iliopoulos and Jim Spanos, with guys like Elias Panagos, Meintanis, Georgios Papadakis, Christos Melissovas and Christos Kadas right below them. All of them were wrestlers who got their start in the 1930s. Most of the Athens shows in 1946 were headlined by Karpozilos.
...
There were a lot of shows outside of Athens in 1946. More than any other year up to that point. At least based on my records. Thessaloniki, Chios, Alexandroupolis, Chalcis, Nicosia, Komotini, Limasol, etc. were some of the places that had wrestling shows in 1946. The island of Chios was an interesting one. It seems that Jim Spanos had settled there and was headlining a number of shows at a local stadium there.
...
Meintanis and Melissovas headlined some shows in Thessaloniki as well." - Phil Lions
JULY 1946
JULY 14, 1946 (SUNDAY)
Stadium, Chios, North Aegean, Greece
1 - Jim Spanos Vs. Nikolaos Iliopoulos,
Result Unknown
JULY 1946
JULY 14, 1946 (SUNDAY)
Stadium, Chios, North Aegean, Greece
1 - Jim Spanos Vs. Nikolaos Iliopoulos,
Result Unknown
AUGUST 1946
AUGUST 4, 1946 (SUNDAY)
Stadium, Chios, North Aegean, Greece
Attendance: 6,000-10,000
1 - Jim Spanos Vs. Nikolaos Iliopoulos,
Result Unknown
Alexandroupolis, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
Attendance: 4,000
1 - Christos Melissovas Vs. Vasileiadis,
Result Unknown
AUGUST 1946
AUGUST 4, 1946 (SUNDAY)
Stadium, Chios, North Aegean, Greece
Attendance: 6,000-10,000
1 - Jim Spanos Vs. Nikolaos Iliopoulos,
Result Unknown
Alexandroupolis, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
Attendance: 4,000
1 - Christos Melissovas Vs. Vasileiadis,
Result Unknown
OCTOBER 1946
OCTOBER 6, 1946 (SUNDAY)
Perroke Theatre, Athens, Greece
Attendance: 2,000
1 - Andreas Lambrakis def. Harry Karpozilos
OCTOBER 27, 1946 (SUNDAY)
Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece
1 - Andreas Lambrakis def. Harry Karpozilos
OCTOBER ??, 1946 (????)
Stadium, Chios, North Aegean, Greece
1 - Jim Spanos Vs. Melissovas,
Result Unknown
Notes:
This took place around October 28, 1946
OCTOBER ??, 1946 (????)
Alexandroupolis, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
Nikolaos Iliopoulos tours here
Notes:
Possibly goes into Novemeber.
He wrestled against Turkish wrestlers.
Iliopoulos is sporting what was referred to as "the gold medal of Central Europe"
OCTOBER 1946
OCTOBER 6, 1946 (SUNDAY)
Perroke Theatre, Athens, Greece
Attendance: 2,000
1 - Andreas Lambrakis def. Harry Karpozilos
OCTOBER 27, 1946 (SUNDAY)
Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece
1 - Andreas Lambrakis def. Harry Karpozilos
OCTOBER ??, 1946 (????)
Stadium, Chios, North Aegean, Greece
1 - Jim Spanos Vs. Melissovas,
Result Unknown
Notes:
This took place around October 28, 1946
OCTOBER ??, 1946 (????)
Alexandroupolis, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
Nikolaos Iliopoulos tours here
Notes:
Possibly goes into Novemeber.
He wrestled against Turkish wrestlers.
Iliopoulos is sporting what was referred to as "the gold medal of Central Europe"
NOVEMBER 1946
NOVEMBER ??, 1946 (????)
Komotini, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
Nikolaos Iliopoulos tours here
Notes:
He wrestled against Turkish wrestlers.
Iliopoulos is sporting what was referred to as "the gold medal of Central Europe"
NOVEMBER 1946
NOVEMBER ??, 1946 (????)
Komotini, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
Nikolaos Iliopoulos tours here
Notes:
He wrestled against Turkish wrestlers.
Iliopoulos is sporting what was referred to as "the gold medal of Central Europe"
DECEMBER 1946
DECEMBER 22, 1946 (SUNDAY)
Perroke Theatre, Athens, Greece
1 - Harry Karpozilos Vs. Andreas Lambrakis,
Result Unknown
DECEMBER 1946
DECEMBER 22, 1946 (SUNDAY)
Perroke Theatre, Athens, Greece
1 - Harry Karpozilos Vs. Andreas Lambrakis,
Result Unknown
1947
Greece
This "was an odd year in a sense that I was able to find mentions only of about a dozen or so shows in Athens and one show outside of Athens. I'm not sure whether this means that they weren't running shows as regularly or that the press just wasn't reporting on the shows. Still, there were some interesting events during the year.
...
Here I would like to make a quick sidenote about the championships in Greek pro wrestling. Up to this mention of Melissovas as champion the only other two guys that I know were billed as Greek champions were Boras and Kleitomachos in the 1930s. I've also seen a photo of Karpozilos from the 1930s where he's photographed with a championship belt, very similar in design to the belt Melissovas won. I have no idea if it was the same title or a title for a different weight class since Karpozilos was a middleweight in the 1930s. Either way, championships weren't a major part of Greek pro wrestling, as best as I can tell. They had their Greek title (or titles?), but also later on had an European and even a World championship. Neither of the belts was being defended on a regular basis.
...
But enough about the belts. Let's get back to 1947. From February though June there were a few shows in Athens, all headlined by Karpozilos.
Up to 1947 Greek pro wrestling had been very closed off from the world. 99.9% of the matches had been Greek wrestler vs. Greek wrestler. By all accounts very few foreign wrestlers had worked in Greece up to that point and if they had it was just for a match or two. A few years later that would change and the shows would feature a lot of foreign talent as the Greek hero slaying the foreign menace would become the main tool of Greek pro wrestling for drawing a crowd. 1947 was the first year where this began to change. Now, most of the shows were still Greeks wrestling Greeks, but in 1947 for the first time foreign wrestlers were brought in for an extended run of shows in Athens." - Phil Lions
Greece
This "was an odd year in a sense that I was able to find mentions only of about a dozen or so shows in Athens and one show outside of Athens. I'm not sure whether this means that they weren't running shows as regularly or that the press just wasn't reporting on the shows. Still, there were some interesting events during the year.
...
Here I would like to make a quick sidenote about the championships in Greek pro wrestling. Up to this mention of Melissovas as champion the only other two guys that I know were billed as Greek champions were Boras and Kleitomachos in the 1930s. I've also seen a photo of Karpozilos from the 1930s where he's photographed with a championship belt, very similar in design to the belt Melissovas won. I have no idea if it was the same title or a title for a different weight class since Karpozilos was a middleweight in the 1930s. Either way, championships weren't a major part of Greek pro wrestling, as best as I can tell. They had their Greek title (or titles?), but also later on had an European and even a World championship. Neither of the belts was being defended on a regular basis.
...
But enough about the belts. Let's get back to 1947. From February though June there were a few shows in Athens, all headlined by Karpozilos.
Up to 1947 Greek pro wrestling had been very closed off from the world. 99.9% of the matches had been Greek wrestler vs. Greek wrestler. By all accounts very few foreign wrestlers had worked in Greece up to that point and if they had it was just for a match or two. A few years later that would change and the shows would feature a lot of foreign talent as the Greek hero slaying the foreign menace would become the main tool of Greek pro wrestling for drawing a crowd. 1947 was the first year where this began to change. Now, most of the shows were still Greeks wrestling Greeks, but in 1947 for the first time foreign wrestlers were brought in for an extended run of shows in Athens." - Phil Lions
JANUARY 1947
JANUARY 6, 1947 (MONDAY)
Athens, Greece
1 - 1946-1947 Greek Championship
Melissovas def. Georgios Papadakis (of Crete)
NEW CHAMPION
JANUARY 1947
JANUARY 6, 1947 (MONDAY)
Athens, Greece
1 - 1946-1947 Greek Championship
Melissovas def. Georgios Papadakis (of Crete)
NEW CHAMPION
FEBRUARY 1947
FEBRUARY 2, 1947 (SUNDAY)
Athens, Greece
1 - Harry Karpozilos Vs. Nikolaos Iliopoulos,
Draw
FEBRUARY 1947
FEBRUARY 2, 1947 (SUNDAY)
Athens, Greece
1 - Harry Karpozilos Vs. Nikolaos Iliopoulos,
Draw
JUNE 1947
JUNE 6, 1947 (FRIDAY)
Athens, Greece
1 - Harry Karpozilos Vs. Andreas Lambrakis,
Result Unknown
JUNE 1947
JUNE 6, 1947 (FRIDAY)
Athens, Greece
1 - Harry Karpozilos Vs. Andreas Lambrakis,
Result Unknown
OCTOBER 1947
OCTOBER 12, 1947 (SUNDAY)
Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium, Athens, Greece
Attendance: 10,000-12,000
1 - Paul Leteurtrois def. Georgios Papadakis
2 - Andreas Lambrakis Vs. Rino Deon (of Italy),
Cancelled
3 - Nicko Mexis def. Harry Karpozilos
Notes:
Leteurtrois & Mexis were touring from France.
[This is the biggest known attendance in Athens for the 1940s]
Mexis (real name: Nikolaos Mexis) was a wrestler of Greek descent who got his start in wrestling in the French town of Saint-Etienne in 1937, where he and his two brothers (Ioannis and Georgios) were living at the time.
All three started off as amateurs and then turned pro later on.
Eversince the late 1930s every once in a while the Greek press would write about Nicko and his matches abroad so he was coming back home to Greece with an already established reputation and taking on one of the top local Greek names]
OCTOBER 19, 1947 (SUNDAY)
Perroke Theater, Athens, Greece
1 - Paul Leteurtrois def. Andreas Lambrakis
2 - Nicko Mexis def. Christos Kadas
OCTOBER 26, 1947 (SUNDAY)
Athens, Greece
1 - Central Europe Medal
Nicko Mexis def. Nikolaos Iliopoulos (c)
2 - Harry Karpozilos def. Paul Leteurtrois
Notes:
Iliopoulos never relinquished his medal.
OCTOBER 28, 1947 (TUESDAY)
Athens, Greece
1 - Paul Leteurtrois def. Christos Kadas
2 - Rematch
Harry Karpozilos def. Nicko Mexis
OCTOBER 1947
OCTOBER 12, 1947 (SUNDAY)
Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium, Athens, Greece
Attendance: 10,000-12,000
1 - Paul Leteurtrois def. Georgios Papadakis
2 - Andreas Lambrakis Vs. Rino Deon (of Italy),
Cancelled
3 - Nicko Mexis def. Harry Karpozilos
Notes:
Leteurtrois & Mexis were touring from France.
[This is the biggest known attendance in Athens for the 1940s]
Mexis (real name: Nikolaos Mexis) was a wrestler of Greek descent who got his start in wrestling in the French town of Saint-Etienne in 1937, where he and his two brothers (Ioannis and Georgios) were living at the time.
All three started off as amateurs and then turned pro later on.
Eversince the late 1930s every once in a while the Greek press would write about Nicko and his matches abroad so he was coming back home to Greece with an already established reputation and taking on one of the top local Greek names]
OCTOBER 19, 1947 (SUNDAY)
Perroke Theater, Athens, Greece
1 - Paul Leteurtrois def. Andreas Lambrakis
2 - Nicko Mexis def. Christos Kadas
OCTOBER 26, 1947 (SUNDAY)
Athens, Greece
1 - Central Europe Medal
Nicko Mexis def. Nikolaos Iliopoulos (c)
2 - Harry Karpozilos def. Paul Leteurtrois
Notes:
Iliopoulos never relinquished his medal.
OCTOBER 28, 1947 (TUESDAY)
Athens, Greece
1 - Paul Leteurtrois def. Christos Kadas
2 - Rematch
Harry Karpozilos def. Nicko Mexis
NOVEMBER 1947
NOVEMBER 1, 1947 (SATURDAY)
Missouri Theatre, Athens, Greece
1 - Georgios Papadakis def. Paul Leteurtrois
NOVEMBER 1947
NOVEMBER 1, 1947 (SATURDAY)
Missouri Theatre, Athens, Greece
1 - Georgios Papadakis def. Paul Leteurtrois
1948
Greece
This year "there were some shows in Athens, but most of the shows that I have a record of were outside of Athens and Karpozilos was headlining a lot of those shows. He had runs on the Greek islands of Rhodes and Corfu as well as Thessaloniki.
...
Karpozilos was more popular than he had ever been, but was still having trouble overcoming his archrival Lambrakis." - Phil Lions
Greece
This year "there were some shows in Athens, but most of the shows that I have a record of were outside of Athens and Karpozilos was headlining a lot of those shows. He had runs on the Greek islands of Rhodes and Corfu as well as Thessaloniki.
...
Karpozilos was more popular than he had ever been, but was still having trouble overcoming his archrival Lambrakis." - Phil Lions
MARCH 1948
MARCH 21, 1948 (SUNDAY)
Athens, Greece
1 - Greek Championship
Elias Panagos def. Andreas Lambrakis (c)
NEW CHAMPION
Notes:
One report said Panagos won the title for the second time, having previously won it in 1939.
JUNE 1948
JUNE 20, 1948 (SUNDAY)
Perroke Theatre, Athens, Greece
1 - Andreas Lambrakis def. Harry Karpozilos
JUNE 1948
JUNE 20, 1948 (SUNDAY)
Perroke Theatre, Athens, Greece
1 - Andreas Lambrakis def. Harry Karpozilos
AUGUST 1948
AUGUST 22, 1948 (SUNDAY)
Apostolos Niolaidis Stadium, Athens, Greece
Attendance: 5,000
1 - Harry Karpozilos Vs. Ahmet Kotch,
Cancelled
2 - Andreas Lambrakis def. Kasim Aslan (of Turkey)
Notes:
Kotch no-showed.
["Right after said show Karpozilos went on a tour of Thessaloniki and the Greek islands. He had toured the Greek islands earlier in the year too along with Iliopoulos and Kadas, but this new tour was bigger" - PhiL Lions]
AUGUST 29, 1948 (SUNDAY)
PAOK Stadium, Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece
Attendance: 8,000-10,000
1 - Kasim Aslan def. Harry Karpozilos
SEPTEMBER 1948
SEPTEMBER 5, 1948 (SUNDAY)
PAOK Stadium, Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece
Attendance: 12,000
1 - Harry Karpozilos def. Kasim Aslan
SEPTEMBER 12, 1948 (SUNDAY)
Diagoras Stadium, Rhodes, South Aegean, Greece
Attendance: 7,000
1 - Kasim Aslan def. Harry Karpozilos
SEPTEMBER 19, 1948 (SUNDAY)
Diagoras Stadium, Rhodes, South Aegean, Greece
1 - Christos Kadas def. Kasim Aslan
SEPTEMBER 26, 1948 (SUNDAY)
Diagoras Stadium, Rhodes, South Aegean, Greece
1 - Nikolaos Iliopoulos def. Kasim Aslan
SEPTEMBER 1948
SEPTEMBER 5, 1948 (SUNDAY)
PAOK Stadium, Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece
Attendance: 12,000
1 - Harry Karpozilos def. Kasim Aslan
SEPTEMBER 12, 1948 (SUNDAY)
Diagoras Stadium, Rhodes, South Aegean, Greece
Attendance: 7,000
1 - Kasim Aslan def. Harry Karpozilos
SEPTEMBER 19, 1948 (SUNDAY)
Diagoras Stadium, Rhodes, South Aegean, Greece
1 - Christos Kadas def. Kasim Aslan
SEPTEMBER 26, 1948 (SUNDAY)
Diagoras Stadium, Rhodes, South Aegean, Greece
1 - Nikolaos Iliopoulos def. Kasim Aslan
OCTOBER 1948
OCTOBER 15, 1948 (FRIDAY)
Corfu, Ionian Islands, Greece
1 - Harry Karpozilos def. Nikolaos Iliopoulos
OCTOBER 22, 1948 (FRIDAY)
Corfu, Ionian Islands, Greece
1 - Elias Panagos def. Harry Karpozilos,
Knockout
OCTOBER 1948
OCTOBER 15, 1948 (FRIDAY)
Corfu, Ionian Islands, Greece
1 - Harry Karpozilos def. Nikolaos Iliopoulos
OCTOBER 22, 1948 (FRIDAY)
Corfu, Ionian Islands, Greece
1 - Elias Panagos def. Harry Karpozilos,
Knockout
1949
FEBRUARY 1949
FEBRUARY 20, 1949 (SUNDAY)
Perroke Theatre, Athens, Greece
1 - Harry Karpozilos Vs. Ibrahim Memet (of Turkey),
Result Unknown
FEBRUARY 27, 1949 (SUNDAY)
Perroke Theatre, Athens, Greece
1 - Andreas Lambrakis Vs. Ibrahim Memet (of Turkey),
Result Unknown
FEBRUARY 1949
FEBRUARY 20, 1949 (SUNDAY)
Perroke Theatre, Athens, Greece
1 - Harry Karpozilos Vs. Ibrahim Memet (of Turkey),
Result Unknown
FEBRUARY 27, 1949 (SUNDAY)
Perroke Theatre, Athens, Greece
1 - Andreas Lambrakis Vs. Ibrahim Memet (of Turkey),
Result Unknown
AUGUST 1949
AUGUST 4, 1949 (THURSDAY)
Goergios Kamaras Stadium, Athens, Greece
Attendance: 5,000
1 - Antonio Fusero (of Italy) def. Harry Karpozilos
[This is the biggest show of 1949]
AUGUST 15, 1949 (MONDAY)
PAOK Stadium, Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece
1 - Antonio Fusero def. Georgios Papadakis
AUGUST 20, 1949 (SATURDAY)
PAOK Stadium, Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece
1 - Antonio Fusero Vs. Elias Panagos,
Result Unknown
AUGUST 1949
AUGUST 4, 1949 (THURSDAY)
Goergios Kamaras Stadium, Athens, Greece
Attendance: 5,000
1 - Antonio Fusero (of Italy) def. Harry Karpozilos
[This is the biggest show of 1949]
AUGUST 15, 1949 (MONDAY)
PAOK Stadium, Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece
1 - Antonio Fusero def. Georgios Papadakis
AUGUST 20, 1949 (SATURDAY)
PAOK Stadium, Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece
1 - Antonio Fusero Vs. Elias Panagos,
Result Unknown
SEPTEMBER 1949
SEPTEMBER 21, 1949 (WEDNESDAY)
Theater Hall, Athens, Greece
1 - Elias Panagos def. Antonio Fusero
SEPTEMBER 1949
SEPTEMBER 21, 1949 (WEDNESDAY)
Theater Hall, Athens, Greece
1 - Elias Panagos def. Antonio Fusero
???? 1949
???? ??, 1949 (????)
Greece
"Midway through the year Boras reappeared in Athens and headlined some shows. Also, Melissovas was now wrestling abroad (Austria, for example), and in a couple of years he would go to the States and become known as Chris Averoff and thus he was no longer part of the local scene.
By the looks of it the 1940s was a decade where while there may not have been as many shows as there were in the 1930s Greek pro wrestling was definitely on the rise in terms of popularity. By now guys like Karpozilos and Lambrakis, along with a few others, were firmly established as the top stars of the local scene and their prime years were yet to come. In addition to this foreign wrestlers, which were soon to become a corner stone of Greek pro wrestling, were now being brought in and used to put over the local names." - Phil Lions
???? 1949
???? ??, 1949 (????)
Greece
"Midway through the year Boras reappeared in Athens and headlined some shows. Also, Melissovas was now wrestling abroad (Austria, for example), and in a couple of years he would go to the States and become known as Chris Averoff and thus he was no longer part of the local scene.
By the looks of it the 1940s was a decade where while there may not have been as many shows as there were in the 1930s Greek pro wrestling was definitely on the rise in terms of popularity. By now guys like Karpozilos and Lambrakis, along with a few others, were firmly established as the top stars of the local scene and their prime years were yet to come. In addition to this foreign wrestlers, which were soon to become a corner stone of Greek pro wrestling, were now being brought in and used to put over the local names." - Phil Lions
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Updated: July 7, 2019.
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