Dutch Savage
On June 10, 1972, Krupp won his first of many assorted titles, defeating Leo Burke for the ESA's IW North American Heavyweight Championship. Early the next year he went to Japan, where he had many of his early successes, co-holding the NWA International Tag Team Championship twice between February and April 1973 (once with Johnny Valentine and once each with fellow 'evil Germans', Fritz von Erich and replacement partner Karl von Steiger). He also reached the final rounds of the 1974 and 1975 New Japan Pro-Wrestling World League Tournaments, both of which he lost to Antonio Inoki. Stateside, Krupp first became a big name in the Texas territory in 1973 before moving on to Portland in 1974 where he feuded with Dutch Savage. He also appeared in CWF Florida in 1975 and then moved on to Dick the Bruiser's WWA in Indiana. There as well as in Detroit, he used the moniker Baron von Krupp.