One of the great legends of Argentine catch, Jose Luis Arevalodied this weekend at the age of 83, after suffering from a heart condition. The former wrestler had stood out during the 70s and 80s in Titans in the Ring and he was also famous for being the legendary arm wrestling referee of the cycle Sunday night.
According to what was confirmed from the Facebook group Quadrilateral Catchwho were the first to break the news, the remembered character from the TV show Gerardo Sofovich He was hospitalized the last few days due to the cardiological problem he suffered recently.
Who was José Luis Arévalo, the King of the Pulseadas of “Sunday Night”
Jose Luis Arevalo He was born on May 21, 1941 in Villa Lugano and had a notable career in different wrestling television programs, entertainment series and several films.
He played characters like Kanghai the Mongol, Salvatore Campisano either El Chino Paw Low and he was the great referee who had the arm wrestling competition that made him very famous in the late 80s in Sunday night.
Arévalo began his career in catching in 1967, under the tutelage of coach Tobias Giordanowhich had created Fighting Colossia cycle that was the responsibility of Titans in the Ring. There he first played El Chino Paw Low, due to his oriental features.
Ten years later, in 1977, it was Martin Karadagian who took him for his cycle, where he played a large number of characters. During his first years on the program he embodied the Italian Salvatore Campisano. “He fought barefoot, with the particularity that he sported hair, given that in all his subsequent characters he fought with a shaved skull,” points out the biography of his life shared by the Facebook group Cuadrilátero Catch.
At the same time, Arévalo also played another character, after an internal change that occurred in Titans in the Ring. From 1978 to 1982 it was Kanghai the Mongolhis greatest creation, a tough villain with whom he became famous for his stubbornness in the ring. At the end of the 90s he returned to fight again, already in his last moments at that stage.
The Career of José Luis Arévalo in Catch and Television
His figure grew a lot simply as Arévalo, who was the man who stood next to Gerardo Sofovich and refereed the arm wrestling matches of the participants of the cycle Sunday night.
In addition to participating in television, Arévalo worked in several films, the vast majority by renowned independent producer Roger Corman. His film career spanned between 1983 and 1987, years in which he was in Deathstalker, the hunter of death; Mingo and Aníbal, two balls against; Titans in the ring fight back; Barbarian Queen The warrior and the sorceress; Johnny Tolengo, the majestic and I have a husband left over.
Source: Ambito
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