Opponents hidden like mice
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.“
Socrates
After his release from the prisons of Rhodes, Coutalianos returned to Piraeus. During the years he was away, his family was starving in poverty. All his savings and assets had been lost due to the destruction suffered by the Greek economy due to the war between Greece and Turkey (1897-980). The youngest of his children, Giannis, could not stand it and died of hunger. After the initial shock suffered by the athlete from the calamities that had befallen his family, he found the strength to regroup. At the urging of some of his friends, he decided to travel to the US. There he hoped that by participating in wrestling matches and displays of strength he would be able to save enough money to allow him to live out the last years of his life with dignity. But things did not turn out as he expected. The various wrestlers and weightlifters who made a career in the USA, learning of his arrival avoided him like Satan the cross. The Greek athlete then began to display his enormous strength in the various theaters and his displays at that time were extensively recorded by the press and left an era. In this chapter we cite many of those publications that show an undeniable way that Coutalianos was indeed the most powerful man of his time.
Postcards of buildings on CLARK ST. As mentioned above, the legendary Coutalianos once passed through there.
As we read from the articles of the time, he co-presented with Coutalianos in various performances.
Outraged by the cowardice of his colleagues, Coutalianos decides that in the US, all wrestlers know how to do is self-promote!
On a Lloyd’s steamship, Coutalianos departed for the USA, intending to fight the champion Roeber.
In Wintrop, Massachusetts, the Greek Asimakis Mavrikis published a book related to the Greeks who settled in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts. The title of the book is “Greek Orthodox Community “Saints Constantine and Helen, year of establishment 1917, Pentecost 1917-1967. Cambridge, Mass.”. The book states that when Koutalianos visited the United States, he was residing in this particular area.
Coutalianos’ performance announced at Murray Hill Lyceum
The iron man Panagis Coutalianos surprises the Americans…
