thewrestlingpress.com europe

WRESTLER PROFILE

Eric Schwarz

E

Words: David Schmida Pictures: dragonhearts.de

ric Schwarz, who was trained by Keith and bruce Hart, certainly left his mark in the wrestling industry and continues to be one of the most

important figures in Germany. Decorated with titles from many different promotions, he can already look back at a long list of accomplishments.

After his wrestling debut as Eric The Bounty Hunter in 1996, the 193 cm tall heavyweight quickly moved on to wrestle for the Catch Wrestling Association (CWA), the then biggest wrestling promotion in Germany run by Otto

Wanz. "I was brought in by Franz Schumann and after being tested, I got booked for two days in Austria, which I guess was my try out.

After that I received a phone call from Peter William asking me if I wanted to work for CWA, which I did from 1998 onwards."

Despite, of course, not winning every match in his first year there, he paid his dues and was given the opportunity to win the vacated CWA Junior Heavyweight Championship in October ‘98. He lost the match to Karsten Kretschmer, but was definitely on his way up and he never let that title out of his sight. Although CWA and Schwarz parted ways after one year, he went on to become one of the leading Wrestlers in Germany:

"I wrestled in a tournament for another promoter in Hannover and had to leave it due to a serious injury after nine days. After that, I wasn't booked for the following CWA tournament. I think they didn't want to run the risk of having a wrestler on the card who is not 100 %".

After his arrival at the Athletic Club Wrestling (ACW), he almost instantly became one of the dominant guys on the roster and helped put ACW on the map. The time at ACW marked a period in his career where he was able to finally win the CWA Junior Heavyweight title from Kretschmer as well as the ACW German title. His biggest success was yet to come though.

tWP WoRlDWiDe WReStlinG MAGAZine 43 Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40  |  Page 41  |  Page 42  |  Page 43  |  Page 44  |  Page 45  |  Page 46  |  Page 47  |  Page 48