A worthy document
“Not being able to believe is a SIGN of disability.”
G. Tsarouchis (Greek painter)
Below we quote an excellent text published in the newspaper Buffalo Courier. It is a brief description of the life of the athlete Coutalianos up to 1889 when the article was written. In it, one can read details about the life of the World Champion, such as the friendship he developed with the great wrestler “Greek George” (also known as “the Terrible Greek”), his travels to various countries and the wrestlers he faced and defeated. In the text, however, some inaccurate details are mentioned that probably reached the columnist’s ears as rumors and not as confirmed facts, such as that Panagis’ wife was the sister of the Italian wrestler P. Raffetto of whom Panagis married after defeating her brother in a wrestling match. Unfortunately, we don’ t know who the author of the article is or who submitted it, but we assume that whoever was had known Coutalianos up close.
Coutalianos fights and defeats the Italian wrestler Raffetto (he is the one mentioned in the text as he used the pseudonym “forty ounce”). Sketch published in Aristophanis newspaper July 1, 1884
