Kurt and Karl Von Steiger

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Lorne Corlett and Arnold Pastrick were a professional wrestling tag team from Winnipeg, Manitoba who used a German heel gimmick and went by the ring names Kurt Von Steiger (Pastrick) and Karl Von Steiger (Corlett). The Von Steigers are best known for competing in Pacific Northwest Wrestling in Portland, Oregon between 1968 and 1973.

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[edit] Career history

Going by their given names, Corlett and Pastrick started out in the 1960s with Winnipeg's Madison Wrestling Club, where Corlett would win the promotion's heavyweight championship in 1965. Corlett and Pastrick later formed a tag team and, after the Madison Club folded in 1968, they headed to PNW and adopted their famous ring names and gimmick.

While competing in Portland, the Von Steigers engaged in feuds with the Royal Kangaroos (Lord Jonathan Boyd & Norman Frederick Charles III) and the team of Tony Borne and Moondog Mayne. As a solo competitor, Kurt Von Steiger also had feuds with the likes of Mayne, Dutch Savage, Jimmy Snuka and Stan Stasiak.

The Von Steigers' greatest accomplishments as a team would be winning the AWA World Tag Team Championship (while competing in PNW), the San Francisco version of the NWA World Tag Team title, and seven Pacific Northwest Tag Team titles.

[edit] Championships won

[edit] Kurt and Karl Von Steiger

[edit] Kurt Von Steiger

  • 2-time NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Champion
  • 2-time NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team Champion (1-time with Killer Karl Krupp, 1-time with Mati Suzuki)
  • 1-time ESA International Tag Team Champion (with Fred Sweetan)
  • 1-time Western States Tag Team Champion (with Tito Montez)
  • 1-time Arizona Heavyweight Champion

[edit] Karl Von Steiger

  • 1-time Madison Wrestling Club Heavyweight Champion (as Lorne Corlett)
  • 2-time Mid-Southern Tag Team Champion (with Otto von Heller)
  • 1-time NWA Mid-America Tag Team Champion (with Otto von Heller)
  • 1-time NWA United States Tag Team Champion (Mid-America version) (with Otto von Heller)
  • 2-time NWA Western States Heavyweight Champion
  • 2-time NWA Western States Tag Team Champion (1-time with Ciclon Negro, 1-time with Siegfried Steinke)

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