In 1982, Fritz Von Erich staged a retirement match against King Kong Bundy in World Class. Four years later, Fritz Von Erich worked his true last match with Abdullah The Butcher.

The legendary Fritz Von Erich and his sons made history in the world of professional wrestling in the 1970s and '80s. Now, the tragic story of the Von Erich family is coming back into the ...

He loved us so much," he said. Von Erich continued saying, "They talk about [how] he made us wrestle and it was all about the bottom line. No, never. He didn't even want us to wrestle.

Fritz would live for a number of years after the fifth death of one of his children, but ultimately succumbed to brain and lung cancer in 1997, according to Shoemaker. In 2009, WWE officially ...

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 ...

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.