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He died in 2013 in Virginia Beach, where he had resided in his later life.

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but was seen on TV in 1983 in World Class Championship Wrestling In 1982, finding it hard to get out of bed, Newton Tattrie retired from active competition. In 1975, the duo worked for the outlaw IWA promotion where they held its World Tag Team Title. Eadie joined up with Tattrie to give a rebirth to the Mongols on the Japanese wrestling circuit. Tattrie went on to train young wrestling hopefuls including Bill Eadie (better known as The Masked Superstar and Demolition Ax). They held the belts until the promotion changed ownership and the title was vacated. Geto held the championship once more, teaming with Johnny DeFazio to win the belts on December 18, 1972. While competing in the The Mongols regained the title in a rematch the following month and held it until losing them on November 12 to Luke Graham and Tarzan Tyler. It was also at this time that Newton Tattrie learned to read, after spending years "bluffing it". Īfter meeting his would-be tag team partner, Bepo Mongol, Tattrie returned to the From 1971 to 1972 he ran the Pittsburgh territory which worked closely with McMahon's In 1972, Bepo went off on his own to become Nikolai Volkoff and Geto (Tattrie) sold his promotion to Pedro Martinez. They had a very unorthodox appearance with bald heads and little "horns" of hair on the very top of their skulls. Tattrie became known as Geto Mongol and Peruzovic as Bepo Mongol together they were the Mongols.

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Tattrie took Peruzovic under his wing as a protégé and alongside Stu Hart trained the non-English speaking, 315 pound man to become a professional wrestler.

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While working in Stampede Wrestling, for Stu Hart Tattrie met Josip Peruzovic (better known in pro wrestling as Nikolai Volkoff). Another wrestler that he met at the gym, Waldo Von Erich, got Tattrie in the door with the World Wide Wrestling Federation (The Mongols It was there that he met wrestler Dave "The Wildman" McKigney who offered to cross train with him. He was very interested in boxing and once accidentally stumbled into a wrestling gym that he thought was a boxing dojo. He headed to Toronto and lived on the streets during World War II. He teamed with Josip Peruzovic as The Mongols, and the pair held the Professional wrestling career Early years īorn in Springhill, Nova Scotia in 1931, Tattrie ran away from home when he was only 12.

He also competed in the World Wide Wrestling Federation.

During his career, Tattrie wrestled all over the globe, wrestling for promotions across the United States and Canada, Africa, Japan, Singapore, and Puerto Rico. Tattrie started his career in the 1960s working for Stu Hart's Stampede Wrestling promotion out of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Newton Tattrie (J– July 19, 2013) was a Canadian professional wrestler better known by his ring name, Geeto Mongol (also spelled Geto Mongol).