"Panagis Koutalianos"

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Panagis Koutalianos (1847 - 1916) was a famous Greek wrestler in the late 19th century, around his life there are many legends and traditions. Originally a sailor in the profession he learned a struggle where because of his great muscular strength he did, initially, struggles and demonstrations in many ports. He fought around the world, tradition says he never lost.

In the games he wore the skin of a tiger, which as tradition says he had strangled in a match. . His career was followed by Demetrius Makris Kutalian son of Sophia who was his sister or daughter or wife, not exactly known their relative relationship.

Life Story

He was born in Koutali, Propontida in 1847 in a tradition his father was a Cypriot sailor, the tidalian was a nickname, for his real name there is the version that he was Antonios while in the US they called him Antonios Panais. Known are the names of his children, Helen, the Greek, Franzescu, Antonis, and George, the latter two followed the struggle and demonstrations. He was very cruel and became famous in America, when he conquered many great wrestlers of the time.

At 19 years of age and on the first boat trip he pulled the ship's anchor with his hands. She made a career in professional wrestling (cats) in Argentina and then Mexico and the USA where there in a match she killed with bare hands in the tiger ring where she then wore her skin in each match, in another version killed her in Turkey. In his fight in Brazil he was thrown into the ring by a Puma which he killed, always with bare hands, as he was defeated by bulls who threw him into the ring in the US. When years did not allow him to continue fighting he became a massist, showing off power on the streets.

He demonstrated his power by bending irons, breaking chains, rocks etc. One of his feats was to carry three cannons, one on the shoulders and two on the sides of the right and left, while he himself detonated them and remained unsettled in his place..

During his stay in Peru he was a horse trainer who trained them for performances, reportedly speaking outside Greek and Turkish, Spanish English and French.

In 1870 he went to France where he fought volunteer with the French in the Franco-Prussian war and was decorated many times and later emigrated to South America where he married and made a daughter or otherwise four sons with the Italian, Genovese, his wife, otherwise Peruvian. In the last years of his life he lived them in Constantinople where he died, two years before the Turks had driven the Greek population from Koutali.

The Cypriot tradition
The Cypriot tradition says that he was the son of George Palliskaros from Rizokarpaso, so he was traveling from Constantinople to Cyprus and at a stop in Koutali he met a herb girl, Zachariania, who got her pregnant without knowing it