His impact will go WAY beyond the ringed circle and television. "I don't know if I was made for television, or if television was made for me," he will famously say. He will be credited with selling more of them than even Uncle Milton Berle. As historian John Nash explained, he didn't just star on television-he helped sell the medium to the masses: America had never seen anything like Gorgeous George. It was a flamboyant act, one that turned Wagner, a journeyman at best as a clean cut and serious grappler, into the biggest star of wrestling's television golden age in the 1940s. 5, it seems, wouldn't do for the Gorgeous one. Clad in lace, chiffon and silk, pink silk at that, he had his valet spray a custom perfume to mask the smell of the "peasants" at ring side. Peroxide blond hair flopping comically, "Gorgeous" Wagner didn't walk to the ring as much as he pranced.
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