For Eric of the Yukon Lumberjacks, see Scott Irwin.
Yukon Eric
Birth name
Eric Holmback[1]
Born
(1916-04-16)April 16, 1916[1] Monroe, Washington, United States[1]
Died
January 16, 1965(1965-01-16) (aged 48)[1] Cartersville, Georgia, United States[2]
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)
Yukon Eric[1]
Billed height
6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)[1]
Billed weight
275 lb (125 kg) – 300 lb (140 kg)[1]
Billed from
Fairbanks, Alaska[1]
Trained by
Man Mountain Dean[1]
Debut
January 22, 1942[1][3]
Eric Holmback (April 16, 1916 – January 16, 1965) was an American professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Yukon Eric.
Holmback spent the majority of his career in Southern Ontario, Canada, where he won the NWA Canadian Open Tag Team Championship on two occasions with Whipper Billy Watson in 1955 and 1961 and the Montreal Athletic Commission's International Heavyweight Championship. He also won the NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship in 1948.
Holmback is best known for his 1952 match and subsequent feud with Killer Kowalski in which he lost his ear as a result of a botched knee drop. A rematch between the two the following year was the first televised wrestling match in Canada. Holmback continued to wrestle in Florida until he died by suicide in 1965.
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Eric Holmback (April 16, 1916 – January 16, 1965) was an American professional wrestler, better known by the ring name YukonEric. Holmback spent the...
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match in Montreal versus YukonEric, Kowalski ripped off a part of YukonEric's ear while performing a knee drop. In reality, Eric's ears were already badly...
Pierre. He became one half of the tag team Yukon Lumberjacks with YukonEric. On June 26, 1978, the Yukon Lumberjacks defeated Dino Bravo and Dominic...
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Defence from 1985 to 1986. Nielsen was sometimes called "Yukon Erik", (a reference to wrestler YukonEric of the 1950s) but he was also called "Velcro lips"...
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Violence Championship. While still based in Toronto, Cvjetkovich, alongside Eric Young (Jeremy Fritz), helped to break in various wrestlers like former ROH...
to Pittsburgh and found work as a laborer. On the advice of wrestler YukonEric, Sammartino contacted Toronto promoter Frank Tunney hoping to take advantage...
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breaking into professional wrestling, Bockwinkel served as the driver for YukonEric, taking him to various cities throughout the Eastern and Northeastern...
National stars he wrestled include "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers, The Crusher, YukonEric, Fritz Von Erich and Lou Thesz. He also engaged in a long-running series...
team partner and kayfabe brother. The LeDucs' gimmick was inspired by "Yukon" Eric Holmback, a professional wrestler who had died three years earlier. They...
migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of Yukon, in north-western Canada, between 1896 and 1899. Gold was discovered there...
Lou Albano introduced a new team, the "Yukon Lumberjacks", composed of Lumberjack Eric and Lumberjack Pierre. Eric had previously worked as the masked character...
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World Class Championship Wrestling in the 1980s as Nord the Barbarian and Yukon John and with the World Wrestling Federation, All Japan Pro Wrestling and...
Stewart/Hercules Cortez Rhonda Singh Wild Bull Curry Bobby Shane/Vivian Vachon YukonEric/Betty Jo Hawkins Orville Brown George Gordienko/Eddie Sullivan Lee Fields/George...
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