Saul Weingeroff
{{Short description|American professional wrestling manager}}
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|image = The Von Brauners.jpg
|caption = Saul Weingeroff with The Von Brauners
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|birth_date = {{birth date|1916|3|6}}
|death_date = {{death date and age|1988|3|14|1916|3|6}}
|birth_place = Brooklyn, New York, United States
|death_place = Nashville, Tennessee
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|debut = 1955
|retired = 1976
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Solomon "Saul" Weingeroff (March 6, 1916 – March 14, 1988) was an American professional wrestling manager, known by his ringname "Gentleman" Saul Weingeroff, who led several tag teams to the NWA World Tag Team Championship during the 1960s and 70s such as The Islanders (Afa and Sika){{cite web|url=http://www.wildsamoan.com/45.jpg|title=The Wild Samoans - The Early Years|date=2006-05-07|publisher=WildSamoan.com|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723101640/http://www.wildsamoan.com/45.jpg |archivedate=July 23, 2011}} and Kurt and Karl Von Brauner.{{cite web|url=http://www.teddwebb.com/wrestling_hall_of_fame/von_brauners.html|title=Wrestling Hall of Fame: Kurt & Karl Von Brauner and Gentleman Saul Weingroff|author=Webb, Tedd|year=2004|publisher=TeddWebb.com}}
Professional wrestling career
Often using his signature cane as well as fireballs (one of the earliest managers to do so) to aid in the victories of his wrestlers, he and the Von Brauners were one of the most popular "heels" in the National Wrestling Alliance during the early 1960s both for the Von Brauners Nazi-like in ring personas{{cite web|url=http://www.411mania.com/wrestling/columns/42342/Shining-the-Spotlight-6.30.06:-Management-Style.htm|title=Shining the Spotlight 6.30.06: Management Style|author=Weyer, Michael|date=2006-06-30|publisher=411mania.com}}{{cite web|url=http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2004/06/09/492572.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120718110152/http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2004/06/09/492572.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=July 18, 2012|title=Hated Kurt Von Brauner dies from stroke|author=Oliver, Greg|date=2004-06-10|work=Slam! Sports|publisher=Canadian Online Explorer}}Lawler, Jerry and Doug Asheville. It's Good to Be the King...Sometimes. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. (pg. 108) {{ISBN|0-7434-7557-7}} as well as his eccentric antics such as his entering the 1964 U.S. presidential election.{{cite web|url=http://www.georgiawrestlinghistory.com/whoswho/s/saul_weingeroff/01.html|title=Who's Who: Saul Weingeroff|year=2007|publisher=GeorgiaWrestlingHistory.com|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011035146/http://www.georgiawrestlinghistory.com/whoswho/s/saul_weingeroff/01.html |archivedate=October 11, 2008}} The cause of rioting in several major cities, the trio often needed to have a police escort before and after wrestling events.{{cite web|url=http://www.mikemooneyham.com/pages/viewfull.cfm?ObjectID=1EEEEDA4-3048-530C-A251A9000D8CAFB4|title=The Wrestling Gospel According to Mike Mooneyham: Layfield Steps Out Of Bounds|author=Mooneyham, Mike|date=2004-06-13|publisher=MikeMooneyham.com|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081113172018/http://www.mikemooneyham.com/pages/viewfull.cfm?ObjectID=1EEEEDA4-3048-530C-A251A9000D8CAFB4 |archivedate=November 13, 2008}}
A well known personality in the Memphis-area, he and The Spoilers (Lorenzo Parente and Joey Corea) also had a long running feud with manager J.C. Dykes and The Masked Infernos (Frankie Cain and Rocky Smith) over the NWA Tennessee Tag Team Championship during the late 1960s later facing Dykes in several wrestling matches.
Among others he had managed during his near 30-year career included The Masked Strangler, Sweet Daddy Watts, "Pistol" Pez Whatley, The Legionnaires (Sgt. Jacques Goulet and Soldier LeBeouf), The Spoilers (Lorenzo Parente and Joey Corea),{{cite web|url=http://www.mikemooneyham.com/pages/viewfull.cfm?ObjectID=285BFFAE-96A7-4779-AF99F6AEDF0AF4F1|title=The Wrestling Gospel According to Mike Mooneyham: Vince, Bischoff Form Unlikely Duo|author=Mooneyham, Mike|date=2002-07-20|publisher=MikeMooneyham.com|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081208013317/http://www.mikemooneyham.com/pages/viewfull.cfm?ObjectID=285BFFAE-96A7-4779-AF99F6AEDF0AF4F1 |archivedate=December 8, 2008}} Mephisto and Dante, Tojo Yamamoto and Sugi Sito (and later Johnny Long),{{cite web|url=http://www.kayfabememories.com/Regions/memphis/memphis-cwa29-2.htm|title=Regional Territories: Memphis/CWA #29, Page #2|author=Dills, Tim|date=December 2002|publisher=KayfabeMemories.com}} Sputnik and Rocket Monroe{{cite web|url=http://www.georgiawrestlinghistory.com/host/monroes/sputnik.html|title=The Monroes|publisher=GeorgiaWrestlingHistory.com}} and Angelo and Lanny Poffo. He is also the father of professional wrestler George Weingeroff.Symkus, Ed and Vinnie Carolan. Wrestle Radio U.S.A.: Grapplers Speak. Toronto: ECW Press, 2004. (pg. 268) {{ISBN|1-55022-646-0}}
Weingeroff retired in 1976. Operating a sign shop in downtown Nashville in his later years, he was also a regular guest columnist for Lew Eskin's Official Wrestling, Wrestling Monthly and Wrestling Review{{cite web|url=http://www.lancerussell.com/forum.php?discuss=1484&PHPSESSID=ef9aa3b054ea0bcf4c5aa19710a0dc8b|title=Gentleman Saul Weingeroff|author=McLallen, Lyman|date=2007-10-14|publisher=LanceRussell.com}} until his death on March 14, 1988.
His son, George Weingeroff was also a wrestler.{{Cite web|url=https://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profile/george-weingeroff/ |title=George Weingeroff | Online World of Wrestling }}
Championships and accomplishments
References
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External links
- [http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/s/saul-weingeroff.html Online World of Wrestling profile]
- [http://www.cagewrestling.de/?id=2&nr=3329&worker=Saul+Weingeroff CageMatch profile] {{in lang|de}}
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