Martín Karadagián was an Argentine

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 professional wrestler and actor.

Biography

Karadagián was born in the San Telmo

San Telmo

San Telmo is the oldest barrio of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is a well-preserved area of the Argentine metropolis and is characterized by its colonial buildings. Cafes, tango parlors and antique shops line the cobblestone streets, which are often filled with artists and dancers.San Telmo's...

 ward of Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

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 to a Spanish

Spanish Argentine

Spanish settlement in Argentina, that is the arrival of Spanish emigrants in Argentina, took place firstly in the period before Argentina's independence from Spain, and again in large numbers during the late 19th and early 20th centuries...

 mother and Armenian father. He learned Greco-Roman wrestling

Greco-Roman wrestling

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 when he was a child, and won his first national championship in 1947.

He began his career as an actor in the 1957 drama Reencuentro con la gloria (Reencounter with Glory), in which he played a fighter who accidentally kills his opponent. He later appeared in Alberto Olmedo

Alberto Olmedo

Alberto Olmedo was an Argentine comedian and actor.Olmedo was born in Barrio Pichincha, Rosario, Santa Fe Province. In his teens, he was a gifted gymnast and an aspiring actor, who tried his luck with several amateur theater companies and enjoyed some local success.Olmedo moved to Buenos Aires in...

's 1963 comedy, Las Aventuras del Capitán Piluso en el castillo del terror

Las Aventuras del Capitán Piluso en el Castillo del Terror

Las Aventuras del Capitán Piluso en el castillo del terror is a 1963 black-and-white Argentine family comedy film directed by Francis Lauric and written by Humberto Ortiz. The film starred Alberto Olmedo and Humberto Ortiz.-Cast:*Alberto Olmedo .... Capitán Piluso*Humberto Ortiz ......

(The Adventures of Captain Piluso at the Castle of Terror).

Karadagián became well known for his recurring role in the wrestling television show Titanes en el ring (Titans in the ring), which aired intermittently from 1962 to 1983. The series became popular elsewhere in Latin America, and during a 1974 episode filmed in Costa Rica

Costa Rica

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, Karadagián reportedly entered into a bout with presidential candidate Gerardo Wenceslao Villalobos (who won).

Karadagián made his last film appearance, with the Titans of the Ring, in 1984. He appeared in a number of yogurt advertisements in his later years, but had developed diabetes, and ultimately had a leg amputated. He died in Buenos Aires in 1991, and was interred at La Recoleta Cemetery

La Recoleta Cemetery

La Recoleta Cemetery is a famous cemetery located in the exclusive Recoleta neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It contains the graves of notable people, including Eva Perón, Raúl Alfonsín, and several presidents of Argentina.- History :...

. A bust of likeness was later unveiled at his Pacheco de Melo Street gym.

Championships and accomplishments

• Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards
• Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame
  Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame
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   (Class of 2008)

Filmography

• Reencuentro con la gloria (1957)
• Las Aventuras del Capitán Piluso en el castillo del terror (1963)
• El hombre invisible ataca (The Invisible Man Attacks) (1967)
• Titanes en el ring (1973)
• Los superagentes y la gran aventura de oro (The Superagents and the Great Gold Adventure) (1980)
• Titanes en el ring contraataca (1984)