RARE! “Chief Little Wolf" Ventura Tenario Hand Signed Page COA

Description: Official PayPal Conversion Rates Add Currency Converter To Your Items Up for auction a *VERY RARE* "Chief Little Wolf" Ventura Tenario Hand Signed Page. This item is certified authentic by Todd Mueller and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity. ES-2219 Ventura Tenario (25 November 1911 – 13 November 1984), better known by his ring name Chief Little Wolf (sometimes, Big Chief Little Wolf), was an American professional wrestler, who spent much of his professional career wrestling in Australia and New Zealand. The second of four children of Jose Porfiria "Joe" Tenario (1884-1956), and Maria Soleila "Mary" Tenario (1890-1928), née Senas, Ventura Tenario was born at Hoehne, Colorado on 25 November 1911. He married three times. His first wife was Irene Olive (1909-1998); his second wife was Dorothy Helen Pratt (1918-1972), whom he married in 1946; and his third wife was Australian-born Audrey Lillis "Dona" Corner (1923-2013) — with whom he had a daughter, Markeeta. Markeeta, born in Christchurch, New Zealand, on 25 January 1958, was a pop-star in Australia by the time that she was 16. She later moved to the USA; and, having unsuccessfully tried to break into the American music industry and the Hollywood movie scene, she turned to real-estate, eventually moving to Waitsburg, Washington, where she married lawyer Michael Hubbard, became involved in local politics, joined the City Council, and served three terms as the city's Mayor. According to the Online World of Wrestling, Ventura's brother, Ernesto Tenario (1915-1998), wrestled under the name of "Chief Lone Wolf". In his professional career, which lasted from 1932 to 1958, he fought in 1,141 matches for 501 wins, 178 draws, and 357 defeats; his opponents included: Lord James Blears, Warren Bockwinkel, Paul Boesch, Orville Brown, Jack Claybourne, Man Mountain Dean, Dean Detton, Yukon Eric, Ken Fenelon, Gorgeous George, Otto Kuss, Dave Levin, Ed Lewis, Jim Londos, Wild Bill Longson, Bobby Managoff, Mike Mazurki, Bronko Nagurski, Danno O'Mahoney, Harold Sakata, "Jumping Joe" Savoldi, Frank Sexton, Kinji Shibuya, Gus Sonnenberg, Sándor Szabó, Lou Thesz, and George Zaharias. In 1946, having resumed his wrestling career post-war, and before returning to Australia, he sustained a double fracture of a leg in a match in Chicago; and, for a time, it was thought that he would not wrestle again. In February 1935, the (then) reigning heavyweight champion, Jim Londos was suspended in California, Illinois, and New York for failing to appear for his scheduled World Heavyweight Championship (Pacific Northwest) title defense against Tenario on 27 February 1935. On 8 July 1935, Chief Little Wolf wrestled against Daniel "Danno" O'Mahoney, at Yankee Stadium, New York, in a heavyweight title match. This was the first title defence for O'Mahoney, who had won the New York State Athletic Commission World Heavyweight Championship from Jim Londos twelve days earlier, on 27 June 1935. O'Mahoney eventually won the match, by a pinfall, after 28 minutes and 23 seconds. Tenario arrived in Auckland, New Zealand, from Vancouver, Canada, on 28 June 1937. In his first match in New Zealand, he was defeated (on points) by Sammy Stein; and, in his last match on his first visit to New Zealand, against Earl McCready on 9 August 1937, he was disqualified in the seventh round. At the time of his first Australian appearance, on 28 August 1937, in a match against Hal Rumberg, at West Melbourne, the press noted that "Chief Little Wolf is at present ranked third on the list of world heavy weights". In 1947, the wrestling journalist, "Ringmaster", noted that "his capacity for absorbing punishment seems to be unlimited, and he has the power and stamina to keep handing it out indefinitely".[25] In Australia, from 1937 to 1958, "he fought more than a hundred individual wrestlers in more than a thousand contests";a nd, in addition to his stadium wrestling he had a travelling tent-show, in which he demonstrated professional wrestling holds, told Navajo stories, and performed horse-riding tricks,[27] with which he toured most of Australia — claiming, in 1953, that seventy-five percent of the Australian people had physically seen him either as a wrestler or as a tent-show performer. In his last match in Australia, he teamed with "Great Zorro"in a tag-team match, at West Melbourne Stadium on 10 November 1956. They defeated the team of "Lucky" Simunovich and Dr. Jerry Graham, two falls to one.

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