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Killer Karl Kox (Herbert Alan Gerwig) was born on 26 April, 1931 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, is an American professional wrestler. Discover Killer Karl Kox's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 80 years old?

Popular As Herbert Alan Gerwig
Occupation N/A
Age 80 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 26 April, 1931
Birthday 26 April
Birthplace Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Date of death 10 November, 2011
Died Place UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States
Nationality United States

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Killer Karl Kox Height, Weight & Measurements

At 80 years old, Killer Karl Kox height is 6 ft 1 in and Weight 260 lb.

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Height 6 ft 1 in
Weight 260 lb
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Dating & Relationship status

He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.

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Killer Karl Kox Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Killer Karl Kox worth at the age of 80 years old? Killer Karl Kox’s income source is mostly from being a successful professional. He is from United States. We have estimated Killer Karl Kox's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
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Net Worth in 2023 Pending
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1931

Herbert Alan Gerwig (April 26, 1931 – November 10, 2011) was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Killer Karl Kox.

1954

Gerwig was trained as a professional wrestler by Fred Bozack and Ralph "Ruffy" Silverstein, debuting in 1954.

Gerwig reportedly earned the name, Killer, when he performed his famous finishing move, the brainbuster, on his opponent by holding him upside down for a period of time and allowing the blood to rush to the brain.

As a singles heel through the sixties, he was a top-of-card fixture battling well-established crowd favorites such as Mark Lewin, Spiros Arion, Tex McKenzie, Dominic DeNucci, and Mario Milano.

Enormous numbers from Australia's nascent ethnic community turned out to support Arion, Denucci, and Milano, and Kox risked riots at every appearance.

1960

Kox competed in the National Wrestling Alliance as well as international promotions such as All Japan Pro Wrestling, the International Wrestling Alliance and World Championship Wrestling during the 1960s and 1970s.

Gerwig was born in Baltimore, Maryland, where his father worked for The Baltimore Sun.

He attended Forest Park High School.

After graduating, Gerwig enlisted in the United States Marine Corps.

He took part in the Korean War, fighting in the Battle of Chosin Reservoir, where he loaded frozen corpses onto a jeep.

Gerwig rarely discussed his wartime experience.

After leaving the Marine Corps, Gerwig relocated to Cleveland, Ohio, where he worked in construction and moonlighted as a softball player.

1967

On February 21, 1967, he and "Iron" Mike Dibiase defeated Pedro Morales and Ricky Romero to win the Worldwide Wrestling Associates' WWA World Tag Team Championship.

1968

He defeated Buddy Rogers to win the MWCW North American Championship in March 1968.

1971

Fans longed to see the brainbuster deployed on the side of good, and this boon was granted in 1971 when the Killer turned into a babyface in a nationally televised mea culpa - he pledged to change his ways on a solemn promise to his dying mother.

This created much heat in the already booming Australian wrestling promotion, where the fixture was an ongoing television "war" between the good guys referred to as the "People's Army" (Lewin, Curtis, Arion, Milano and visiting faces from overseas) and the "mercenary soldiers" managed by Kentucky biker / preacher Big Bad John.

The turning of the tables saw the erstwhile Killer create great excitement in tag matches against his former heel comrades Abdullah the Butcher, Brute Bernard, Dick "The Bulldog" Brower, Tiger Jeet Singh, Waldo Von Erich and Japanese heels like Mr. Fuji and the Tojo Brothers (Hiro "The Great" Tojo and Hito Tojo).

1973

He lost to Johnny Weaver on May 4, 1973, in a hair vs mask match while working as the "Masked Menace".

He won the Florida Brass Knuckles Championship by winning a tournament, and also defended the title against Rocky Johnson and Steve Keirn.

1978

In February 1978, he defeated Dusty Rhodes to win the NWA Florida Heavyweight Championship.

At a wrestling show later that year, Kox was wrestling a match when a fan started to repeatedly hit him with an umbrella.

Security got involved and detained the fan, but instead of kicking the fan out of the show, Kox requested that they bring him into a backroom with the door locked.

He allegedly requested that security not let him out until it was alright doing so.

Security took the fan to a back room and locked the door.

After Kox's match ended, he told security to open the door and he went in.

Five minutes later, Kox walked out of the room and the fan was found lying on the floor, covered in blood and was knocked out unconscious.

In the wrestling profession, Killer Karl Kox was always a popular figure for his humor, behind-the-scenes practical jokes and inventiveness in furthering the promotion ("the greatest gimmicks man in the business" said one admiring colleague).

His grudge matches were well-calibrated and exciting, building through a series of disqualifications and non-decisions through run-in interference, and often climaxing in a conditional match in which "the loser packs his bags and leaves town."

This saw off one or the other of the combatants as they travelled to fulfill other promotional runs in other countries; battle would be re-joined next season when the participants returned for another highly profitable run.

1979

Dick Murdoch once listed a number of people he had supposedly defeated and put out of wrestling, including a midget wrestler from the 1940s (few people caught the joke reference) and also listed on Herb Gelwig, (who was of course Killer Karl Kox with whom he teamed several times and was still quite active.) On October 9, 1979, he defeated Bob Armstrong to win the vacant NWA Georgia Heavyweight Championship.

Kox was cheered in Australia for one of the few times in his life when he faced the team of Abdullah the Butcher and Bulldog Brower.

Among Killer Karl Kox's famous matches in Australia, his feuds with man-mountain Haystacks Calhoun usually involved the insinuation of foreign objects into the proceedings by Kox.

At the end of one season, Kox "left Australia for medical treatment in the states" when, in a strap match with Bulldog Brower, his eye was nearly removed (the wound was unbandaged to show the television audience).

A headline making event was when a television match for the IWA World Heavyweight Championship against Spiros Arion was declared ended due to time limit by well-loved commentator Jack Little.

Kox responded by delivering the brainbuster to the unfortunate Little, who was hospitalized and required to call matches the following month in a neck brace.

1983

Kox retired from professional wrestling in 1983.

2011

He made his final wrestling-related appearance at VCCW Quest for the Crown II in August 2011, taking part in a meet and greet as well as later presenting the championship to Scot Summers.

Gerwig suffered a stroke on October 20, 2011.

He died of a heart attack on November 10, 2011, at the UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas.