WRESTLER PROFILES

	Wrestler: "Manaic" Mark Lewin Real Name: Mark Lewin Birthday: March 16, 1937 Hometown: Buffalo, New York Possibly living in Japan Marital Status: Height & Weight: Trained by: Debut: 1953 Previous Names: Purple Haze (Florida) Finishing Move: Sleeper Hold Favorite Moves: Notable Feuds: The (original) Sheik Killer Karl Kox Thunderbolt Patterson [Mark Lewin Gallery] [The Army of Darkness Gallery]
(Maryland) American Tag Team titles w/Donn Lewin defeating ??????? (March ??, 1956); (Maryland) American Tag Team titles w/Donn Lewin defeating Don & Ray Stevens (March 20, 1956); NWA (Georgia) International Tag Team titles w/Donn Lewin defeating Chief Big Heart & Red McIntyre (Febuary 8, 1957); NWA (Capitol) United States Tag Team titles w/Don Curtis defeating Dick the Bruiser & Hans Schmidt (????, 1958); NWA (Capitol) United States Tag Team titles w/Don Curtis defeating Eddie & Jerry Graham (December 11, 1958); NWA (Florida) World Tag Team titles w/Don Curtis defeating Roy Heffernan & Al Costello (January 24, 1963); NWA Texas Heavyweight title defeating Pepper Gomez (June 29, 1963); NWA (Florida) World Tag Team titles w/Don Curtis defeating Assassins (November 21, 1963); IWA (Australia) World Tag Team titles w/Dominic Denucci defeating Harley Race & Larry Hennig (July 1, 1966); IWA (Australia) World Heavyweight title defeating Toru Tanaka (July 9, 1966); IWA (Australia) World Tag Team titles w/Bearcat Wright defeating Brute Bernard & Skull Murphy (July 29, 1966); WWA (Los Angeles) World Heavyweight title defeating Lou Thesz (October 28, 1966); WWA (Los Angeles) World Tag Team titles w/Pedro Morales defeating El Shereef & Hard Boiled Haggerty (December 10, 1966); WWA (Los Angeles) Americas Heavyweight title defeating Mike DiBiase (July 28, 1967); IWA (Australia) World Heavyweight title defeating Curtis Iaukea (October 13, 1967); NWA (Toronto) International Tag Team titles w/Billy Watson defeating Bull Curry & Tiger Jeet Singh (August 25, 1968); NWA (Vancouver) Pacific Coast Heavyweight title defeating Moondog Mayne (Febuary 9, 1970); IWA (Australia) World Tag Team titles w/Antonio Pugliese defeating Swede Hanson & Rip Hawk (May 15, 1970); IWA (Australia) World Tag Team titles w/Mario Milano defeating Kurt & Karl Von Steiger (December ??, 1970); IWA (Australia) World Tag Team titles w/Killer Kowalski defeating Dusty Rhodes & Dick Murdoch (March ??, 1971); IWA (Australia) World Tag Team titles w/Curtis Iaukea defeating Bob Brown & Killer Kowalski (April ??, 1971); IWA (Australia) World Tag Team titles w/Curtis Iaukea defeating Mr. Fuji & Tiger Jeet Singh (June ??, 1971); NWA (Vancouver) Canadian Tag Team titles w/Steven Little Bear defeating Bob Brown & Gene Kiniski (November 29, 1971); NWA (Vancouver) Pacific Coast Heavyweight title defeating Bob Brown (January 17, 1972); NWA (Texas) American Tag Team titles w/The Spoiler defeating ???????? (????, 1973); NWA (Florida) Southern Heavyweight title defeating Buddy Colt (January 9, 1973); NWA Austra Asian Tag Team titles w/Spiros Arion defeating Hiro Tojo & Waldo Von Erich (July ??, 1973); NWA (Detroit) United States Heavyweight title defeating The Sheik (September 27, 1975); NWA (Detroit) United States Heavyweight title defeating Don Kent (December ??, 1975); NWA Texas Brass Knuckles title defeating ???????? (????, 1978); NWA Texas Tag Team titles w/The White Knight defeating Tiger Conway Jr. & Mando Guerrero [Tournament] (October 30, 1978); NWA Texas Brass Knuckles title defeating Dusty Rhodes (January 28, 1979); NWA (World Class) American Tag Team titles w/The Spoiler defeating David & Kevin Von Erich (Febuary 19, 1979); NWA Texas Brass Knuckles title defeating Bruiser Brody (July 22, 1979); NWA Texas Tag Team titles w/The Spoiler defeating Bruiser Brody & Kerry Von Erich (September 17, 1979); NWA Texas Heavyweight title defeating David Von Erich (December 10, 1979); NWA Texas Brass Knuckles title defeating Billy Graham (?????????, 1980); NWA Texas Brass Knuckles title defeating Dusty Rhodes (January ??, 1980); NWA (New Zealand) British Empire/Commonwealth Heavyweight title defeating Jos LeDuc (April 30, 1981); NWA Texas Heavyweight title defeating Gino Hernandez (May 25, 1980); NWA Australasian Tag Team titles w/Steve Rickard Awarded (October 8, 1981); NWA Australasian Tag Team titles w/Steve Rickard defeating Baron Von Krupp & King Kamaka (May 27, 1982); NWA Australasian Tag Team titles w/Al Perez defeating Ox Baker & King Kamaka (September 30, 1982); NWA (World Class) World Six Man Tag Team titles w/One Man Gang & Killer Brooks defeating Kevin & Kerry Von Erich in a Handicap Match (July 7, 1985);
Mark Lewin is the legitimate brother of wrestler Donn Lewin and wrestler/author/illustrator Ted Lewin.. Mark Lewin held Detroit's version of the United States title until the Sheik defeated him for that belt.. Greg Kelly wrote: I found a bit online about Dick Beyer & Mark Lewin's bad blood which resulted in The Destroyer's tour here (Australia) being cancelled by Barnett & Doyle, Lewin'd dislike of Beyer went back to 67 in LA when Beyer wouldn't job for the WWA champion Lewin, Beyer told Verne Gagne that he was planning a world tour but had a hole in his schedule from Jan to March 71 so Gagne said that Barnett had been bugging him for talent for ages so Gagne rang Barnett in front of Beyer & offered Barnett the choice of either Destroyer or Dr X & that Beyer would work for $650 a week, Barnett said that he'd like the Destroyer but when Beyer was working in Samoa he rang Australia & found out out that it had been cancelled, he found out that Lewin who was a big star here went to Barnett & had it cancelled, he'd told Barnett that it was him or Beyer, Lewin was doing big business here so Beyer was cancelled, Dick went to New Zealand for Steve Rickard instead initially as himself & then as Destroyer & did sell out business there so then Barnett wanted him again but Dick said no he'd had his chance, Beyer did an interview at the office of a New Zealand newspaper as himself & then returned a week later with the mask on & nobody at the newspaper recognised that it was the same guy. (I went looking for that article where I found the info about their heat & it was by Steve Yohe, he'd be better off with the credit than me.) Here are Mark Lewin's Sydney results for 60s 2/20/65- Lewin d Buddy Austin 2/27/65- Lewin drew Mongolian Stomper 3/5/65- Lewin drew Mongolian Stomper 3/7/65- Lewin d Austin DQ 3/12/65- Lewin drew Killer Kowalski -- 3/19/65- Lewin/Tex McKenzie d Ray Stevens/Mongolian Stomper 3/26/65- Lewin d Mongolian Stomper 2-1 -- 4/3/65- Lewin d Stevens DQ 4/10/65- Lewin d Stevens 2-1 4/24/65- Mitsu Arakawa d Lewin -- 5/1/65- Lewin/Domenic DeNucci d Stevens/Arakawa DQ 5/8/65- Lewin/DeNucci d Arakawa/Stevens 2-1 -- 5/15/65- Arakawa d Lewin 2-1 (Lewin stretchered) 10/9/65- Lewin d Alaskan (Jay York) 10/16/65- Lewin d Cyclone Negro 10/23/65- tournament 1st round Lewin d Hunter Shaw 2nd round Red Bastien d Lewin 10/30/65- Lewin d Skull Murphy 2-1 11/6/65- Lewin/Spiros Arion/Red Bastien d Murphy/Negro/Roy Heffernan 2-1 11/13/65- Lewin drew Bastien 11/20/65- Lewin/Arion vs Murphy/Curtis Iaukea, Curtis injured early in match so Lewin took on Murphy solo & Murphy was DQd 11/27/65- Lewin d Murphy DQ 12/4/65- Lewin d Murphy in cage with no ref 12/11/65- Lewin d Murphy, Lewin not allowed to use sleeper & wore a helmet to prevent Murphy's head butts -- 6/3/66- Lewin d Arakawa 6/10/66- Lewin/DeNucci d Arakawa/Prof Tanaka 2-0 6/17/66- Lewin/DeNucci/Kowalski d Arakawa/Tanaka/Harley Race 2-1 6/24/66- Lewin/Kowalski d Race/LarryHennig DQ 7/2/66- Lewin/DeNucci d Hennig/Race 2-1 7/8/66- Lewin/DeNucci d Arakawa/Tanaka 2-1 7/15/66- Murphy/Brute Bernard d Lewin/DeNucci 2-1 -- 7/22/66- Lewin/Bearcat Wright d Murphy/Bernard 2-1 7/29/66- Lewin/Wright d Murphy/Bernard 2-1 -- 8/5/66- Lewin d Murphy DQ 8/12/66- Lewin d Tanaka 2-1 8/19/66- Lewin drew Bernard 8/26/66- Wright d Lewin 2-1 -- 9/22/67- Lewin d Alaskan 9/29/67- Lewin d Kowalski 10/6/67- Lewin d Curtis Iaukea DQ 10/13/67- Lewin d Iaukea 2-1 10/20/67- Lewin d Murphy 2-0 10/27/67- Lewin d Kowalski 11/3/67- Lewin d Killer Karl Kox DQ -- 11/10/67- Kox d Lewin 2-1 11/17/67- Lewin/Bastien d Ripper Collins/Beauregarde 11/24/67- Kox/Bull Curry d Lewin/Milano 3-2 -- 9/28/68- Tanaka d Lewin DQ 10/4/68- Tanaka d Lewin 2-1 10/11/68- Lewin/Mario Milano vs Murphy/Tanaka DDQ -- 10/18/68- Lewin/Milano d Murphy/Tanaka 2-1 10/25/68- Lewin d Murphy DQ 11/1/68- Lewin d Negro -- 11/8/68- Lewin d Murphy reverse decision 11/15/68- Lewin/Milano d Murphy/Negro DQ 11/22/68- Lewin/Milano/Tex McKenzie d Murphy/Tanaka/Negro 2-1, Lewin was also a regular visitor between 1970 & 74 Irwin wrote: Just as an update to an excellent site, Mark Lewin worked the L.A. market as a face in the sixties feuding with Freddie Blassie and Maddog Vachon. He also teamed with Bobo Brazil quite a bit. He went "bad" just before I remember him leaving the L.A. market. ( although at the age of 10 I don't think I had a clue about market.....