2023年1月12日 · The darkness that grew to envelop the Von Erich family began in earnest, and quite tragically, with the family's youngest. In 1952, Fritz and his then-wife Doris welcomed his first son,...

2024年5月13日 · Fueled by the death of his firstborn child, professional wrestler Fritz Von Erich worked to mold his five younger sons into star athletes so that nothing—or no one—could ever hurt them. Along...

The Von Erich family is an American professional wrestling family. Originally from Texas, their actual surname is Adkisson, but every member working in wrestling has used the ring name "Von Erich" after family patriarch Fritz Von Erich (real name Jack Adkisson).

2023年12月23日 · One of the premiere royal families of professional wrestling, the Von Erichs’ legacy started with its patriarch, Fritz. Father Von Erich rose to prominence during the ‘60s and ‘70s,...

2023年2月8日 · The Von Erich Family is richly entwined in the history of professional wrestling. Sadly, they also endured incredible heartache over the years. Here is the story of the tragic passing of five of the six Von Erich brothers.

2023年12月19日 · ‘The Iron Claw’ chronicles the saga of the Von Erich dynasty, a family that soars to prominence within the world of professional wrestling. Throughout the 1980s, the family navigates their paths in the wrestling arena — either by treading in the footsteps of predecessors or establishing themselves as formidable wrestlers.

2023年12月22日 · The Von Erich family’s real life story is an exceptionally devastating example of the physical and mental toll that wrestling can take on the people involved.

From the 1950s to the early 1990s the Von Erich family—a father and five of his sons—were a dominant presence in Texas’s regional wrestling circuit. Several of them seemed poised to break through at the national level, but tragedy visited the family time and again.

In 1952, Fritz and his then-wife Doris welcomed their first son, Jack Barton Adkisson Junior, into the world. In 1959, Jack Junior was electrocuted and subsequently drowned via a puddle in Niagara...

2023年10月11日 · Fritz married his wife Doris in 1950, and they had six sons, five of whom followed their father into the wrestling world, and whose own lives were touched by tragedy. In 1997, Fritz was diagnosed...