Stan Stasiak

Stan "the Man" Stasiak, born George Emile Stipich in 1937 in the village of Arvida, Quebec, was a Canadian professional wrestler who died in 1997. He trained in Montreal, debuted in 1958 and took his ring name in 1960 from an earlier wrestler named Stanley Stasiak who had died in 1931. Through the 1960s he worked across Canada and the United States, including Stampede Wrestling in Calgary and Pacific Northwest Wrestling, where he won the NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Championship five times, and he toured Japan with International Wrestling Enterprise in 1969. He is best known for his appearances with the World Wide Wrestling Federation in the 1970s, where he won the WWWF Heavyweight Championship in 1973, and he was inducted into the Legacy wing of the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2018.