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George Cannon
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Last updated by Sean Sweeny on April 28, 2014
Title History
Los Angeles Beat the Champ TV title winning a tournament in 1968;
Career Highlights
George Cannon moved to Windsor and wrestled for Frank Tunney in Toronto from the mid-60s to 1974..
George Cannon was a wrestler, manager, and booker for Eddie Einhorn’s short-lived IWA in 1975..
George Cannon was a promoter and TV producer/announcer in Southwestern Ontario, Montreal, and Atlantic Canada in 1976..
George Cannon is most known as the manager of the Kangaroos (Al Costello & Don Kent) in The Sheik’s Detroit promotion..
George Cannon also managed the Mongols (Geeto & Bolo) in the IWA..
George Cannon made a deal with Vince McMahon to bring the WWF into Detroit in 1983..
~~~He heard that Ole Anderson’s Georgia Championship Wrestling was planning to invade the territory..
~~~Ended up regretting the deal with McMahon, and was very bitter about the way he was treated by the WWF..
George Cannon regularly wrote for wrestling mags and was the editor of the official IWA magazine..
George Cannon earned his nickname “crybaby” for an ability to cry on cue when he lost matches..
George Cannon died from cancer in 1994 at the age of 62..
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