Help with Vintage style fed

[mauzer33]

I am working on creating a fed that is vintage based on using the vintage charts.

I want to start off with using wrestlers from the vintage era and then eventually cycle in more modern wrestlers with more athletic backgrounds. Like Angle, Shamrock, Bockwinkle, for example.

Besides the wrestlers from Expansion 7, Muldoon, Pesek, Stanislaus Zbyszko and Martin Farmer Burns; who else from LOW originally wrestled in the vintage era?

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

[Shon Maxx]

That’s mostly what my fed is made of. Expansion vii and the Tragos sets. I also use wrestlers from the Olde Wrestling sets. It’s an indie fed that pretends to be vintage. The wrestlers aren’t very strong but they can fill your mid or lower card.

[Pete]

George Tragos. Abe Lincoln from one of the black-and-white pdf 4-packs. Jim Londos.

Of course not all these guys are perfect overlaps. Londos and Tragos were more 1920s/1930s and of course Abe was decades before everyone else.

[pikemojo]

Depends a bit on your definition of vintage, I suppose. We don't have a massive roster of early 1900s wrestlers but if you expand to the 1930s we have Londos, Tragos...

Ed "Strangler" Lewis sort of bridged the divide between the early 1900s and that next (1920s-1930s) era.

As for more recent wrestlers who might mix well with the vintage guys: Angle, Shamrock, Severn, Backlund, Danielson,

[tystates]

1879 Farmer Burns
1881-1890 William Muldoon
1882-1889 Evan Lewis
1887-1898 Terrible Turk
1895 Great Gama
1896-1911 George Hackenschmidt
1899-1913 Frank Gotch
1901-34 Stanislaus Zbyszko
1903 Henry Irslinger
1905-1948 Ed Lewis
1912-1959 Jim Londos
1914-1959 John Pesek
1922 George Tragos
1926-1965 Red Berry
1932-1962 Gorgeous George
1932-1990 Lou Thesz
1932-51 Rod Fenton
1935-1986 Fred Blassie
1937-1953 French Angel
1938-1987 Al Costello
1939 Bull Curry
1939-1982 Buddy Rogers
1940 Sky Low Low
1942 Yukon Eric
1942-1976 Antonino Rocca
1944-1971 Roy Heffernan
1945-1988 Sputnik Monroe
1947-1975 Johnny Valentine
1947-82 Eddie Graham
1947-2008 Killer Kowalski
1949-1965 Ilio DiPaolo
1949-1973 Fritz Von Goering
1949-1980 Don Leo Jonathan
1949-1988 Crusher
1949-1991 Angelo Poffo
1949-1998 Sheik
1950-1968 Mike DiBiase
1950-1986 Mad Dog Vachon
1950-1987 Little Beaver
1950-1992 Ray Stevens
1950-2006 Jackie Fargo

[sleazybmartini]

I'm currently running one that started up in 1905 and is about to hit it's 1950's TV era. Best advice I can offer is to hunt down bootlegs on these boards to fill out your early roster. You won't have a lot of official cards to work with until the late 1940's without bending timelines a little or bringing guys in earlier than they actually debut.

[TTX]

Justme has some really good ones.

[sleazybmartini]

Jun 18, 2024 17:13:22 GMT -5 TTX said:

Justme has some really good ones.

Between official low, Justme's cards and what's available publicly for download, you can assemble a fairly nice vintage roster.