Legendary "Flying Frenchman" Edouard Carpentier passes away at 84 years old

by David Bixenspan on Nov 1, 2010 6:00 PM EDT

Multiple sites are reporting that Edouard Carpentier, 84, passed away on Saturday night on in a hospital in Montreal. One of the biggest stars in Montreal's rich wrestling history, he was an impressively acrobatic high flyer before they were common, as well as a kinda sorta former NWA and AWA World Heavyweight Champion. His last run in the business was as an announcer on the WWF's French language broadcasts. My friend Greg Oliver at Slam! Wrestling has an excellent obituary up, doing the subject justice better than I could.

Here are some silent film clips of him against fellow all-time great Buddy Rogers:

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It's true, sadly

He was also a great influence and trainer of real Catch Wrestling. He taught Kris Iatskevich based in Joliet, Quebec, who formed Catch Wrestling Canada and the International Submission Wrestling Alliance. One of the last of the old school Shooters / Hookers he will one day be part of the MMA family tree to anyone learning Catch Wrestling for it under Kris.

He also kind of looked like a beefier George St. Pierre as a young man.