Ivan's first wife was Anastasia Romanovna, with whom he entered a union shortly after being crowned. Prior to leaving the AWA, Ivan dropped most of his weight by getting into bodybuilding. The SS set up a special training camp just for them and at Treblinka, Trawniki guards would manage the camp along with the SS. Slaughter. The photo on the right was taken during a promotional tour in Hollywood. [2], It was in his homeland of Argentina where Firpo, while staying at a hotel frequented by the ruling Pern family, was introduced to "Chimu," purportedly the shrunken head of a tribal leader from Ecuador. So I asked him what happened, and he told me they were from people in the stands scratching him with their soda bottle caps as he went by because he had been so mean inside the ring, she said. Draaisma, Douwe (2012). The father and son came to blows, with Ivan accusing his son of conspiracy, and he struck his son with his scepter or walking stick. Merritt claimed that what happened in his courtroom was "nothing short of a witch hunt. At the same time, Ivan suffered personal losses: his wife Anastasia died in suspected poisoning, and one of his closest advisors, Prince Andrei Kurbsky, turned traitor and defected to the Lithuanians, destroying a region of Russian territory. Ivan the Terrible vs. Source: Wikipedia.org. [11] His function at the camp was to operate the two tank engines that fed the gas chambers. Ivans personal paranoia and instability grew as he aged, leading to tragedy. I goes like that: Oh wait a minute! They remained together until Anastasia's death 13 years later, in the summer of 1560. On 16 June 1552, Ivan headed a new campaign against the khanate and rode out at the head of a large army. Hundreds of history documentaries, ad free podcasts and subscriber rewards. Shaw died Sunday at age 65 after a long illness. Firpo would have a second chance at the championship two months later in Philadelphia, on July 8, 1972, against Morales in another losing effort. Ivan IV Vasilyevich, also known as Ivan the Terrible, was a significant ruler of the Grand Duchy of Muscovy or Moscow in the sixteenth century. Ivan was named the Grand Prince of Moscow and his mother Elena was his regent. This concept of the divine right to rule would have been trusted by various monarchs, of differing denominations, across Europe at the time. He had a long beard and hair all over.. When you hear the name Ivan the Terrible you might first think of the 16th-century ruler, the man crowned the first tsar of Russia who executed thousands, even his own son during a fit of rage. [9] Most of the squad commanders however were Volksdeutsche. Since his son Ivan, who had been trained for ruling, was dead, the throne passed to his second son, Feodor, who was an unfit ruler and died childless, leading to Russias Time of Troubles that would not end until Michael I of the house of Romanov took the throne in 1613. In 2010, Putski appeared in a reunion event called "LegendsMania" and he was interviewed. He soon returned to the independent circuit, also making occasional appearances in the WWF as a jobber to the stars. Said to be tall, well built and in his mid-twenties, Ivan was a Ukrainian who had fought for the Soviets earlier in the war before being captured and held in a POW camp. He got his start wrestling and boxing in carnivals while he was a Dallas police officer. To my regret, we believed them. He looked like a bear and wrestled bears, so they called him Bear, his daughter said. `IVAN' FLED TO YUGOSLAVIA, DEMJANJUK DEFENSE SAYS; downloaded on July 5, 2012. When Ivan was only 3 years old, his father died after an abscess on his leg led to blood poisoning. As conflicts go, WW2 was the bloodiest in human history. Ivan The Terrible is a Canadian professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist. During this period, he also launched the Russo-Turkish War, which lasted until a 1570 peace treaty.