Eddie Creatchman

**Edward Creatchman** (February 27, 1928 - March 9, 1994) was a Canadian professional wrestling manager.

## Professional wrestling career

### Early days

Edward "Eddie" Creatchman was born on February 27, 1928 in Montreal and began his professional wrestling career in the late 1940s.

He was first a wrestler, and although he only wrestled just a few matches in his career (it was said that it was hard for him to wrestle due to him having diabetes), he later worked as a referee before transitioning into his best known role as a wrestling manager.

His first match, according to *Cagematch*, is listed as a tag team bout for IWA Montreal on April 7, 1969, where he and Tony Angelo defeated Dale "Buddy" Roberts & Pierre LaBelle.

### Manager work

As a manager, Creatchman's character was known for wearing sunglasses, smoking a cigar, and wearing a Star of David.

Creatchman helped promote his wrestlers who could not handle themselves in interviews. He used the nickname "The Brain" before it was famously used by Bobby Heenan.

He is best known for his time on the Quebec independent wrestling circuit, where he most notably managed the Sheik and Abdullah the Butcher. While managing The Sheik in 1970, he caused a riot at the Montreal Forum, and as a result, an impressed Sheik brought Creatchman to Detroit to continue managing him. He would lead the Sheik to winning matches against babyfaces like Johnny and Jacques Rougeau, Gino Brito, and Édouard Carpentier. According to the Quebec Wrestling site's page on Creatchman:

*"Perhaps Creatchman's biggest contract is with Abdullah The Butcher. The Brain never ceased to used the Sudan Mastodonte to pulverize his most loated enemies, mostly the Rougeau Family, André the Giant and the late Dino Bravo. Abdullah followed the Brain up until the end of the International Wrestling promotion in 1987 (Abby was the last champion of this federation...)."*

In the 1980s, Creatchman served as the manager for Steve Strong in Montreal-based International Wrestling as Strong brawled with the likes of Abdullah the Butcher and Rick Martel. Also in the 1980s, he managed The Great Samu and Sheik Ali.

Other wrestlers Creatchman managed include Martel, Don Leo Jonathan, George "Crybaby" Cannon, Gilles Poisson, Kamala, Killer Tim Brooks, Sailor White (Moondog King), and Tarzan Tyler. Creatchman and his son Floyd owned International Wrestling from 1986 to 1987.

### Outside wrestling

Outside of the wrestling business, Eddie owned a scrapyard and worked in it with his wife Goldie, who he married back in 1949; she died in 1985. His son Floyd worked as a professional wrestling manager, and enjoyed success of his own like his father; he died from Crohn's disease in 2003.

He told a radio journalist in 1981 that he drove a leased Cadillac and owned a house with three morgages in the suburb of Dollard-Des-Ormeaux outside Montréal, with four toilets, and didn't want a swimming pool because he hated water and his neighbors hated him so much (they were wrestling fans) that they could drown him. He also noted that the wrestling world was tough, however he still could eat three meals a day.

## Death

On March 9, 1994, Creatchman died of complications from diabetes at the age of 66.