Holt McCallany as Fritz Von Erich in 'The Iron Claw'. A24/YouTube Fritz never found the worldwide fame he coveted, but after he launched a second act as a promoter, he pushed his sons to follow in ...

Fritz Von Erich's WCCW Led To Major Innovations In Wrestling The Iron Claw was mainly focused on the brothers and their family dynamic, and less was said about their wrestling company, WCCW.

First there was Fritz Von Erich, the patriarch who’d begun his career in the 1950s and eventually became president of the World Class Championship Wrestling organization.

In the 1950s, he started wrestling as a Nazi villain character named “Fritz Von Erich,” and came up with Iron Claw, spreading his hand over an opponent’s face and then squeezing.

Holt McCallany is set to star as Fritz Von Erich — patriarch of the Von Erich family — in the upcoming "The Iron Claw" biopic written and directed by Sean Durkin. Fritz is one of wrestling's ...