February 13 – 26, 1961

Lawrence Welk and his Orchestra

Calcutta

There were a lot of heavy hitters in All-Japan in the late 90’s but Akira Taue, a former sumo turned pro wrestler may have been the “heaviest”.

Neff Maiava was not the most accomplished wrestler in the world or really even in the state of Hawaii, but he was arguably the first Polynesian star of note who could main event regularly.

Johnny Powers challenged Bruno Sammartino for the WWWF Heavyweight Championship many times in the early 60’s in Pennsylvania and Toronto and he main evented in Minnesota, Detroit and Texas but his biggest contribution was as a promoter in the Cleveland area with the NWF promotion.