{{Short description|Canadian professional wrestling manager}} {{Infobox professional wrestler |name = Eddie (Eddy) Creatchman<ref name="Clipped from the Gazette">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24611239/the-gazette/|title = Clipped from the Gazette|newspaper = The Gazette|date = 10 March 1994|page = 25}}</ref> |names = The Brain<ref name=slam/><br>The Boss<ref name=slam/> |image = Eddie_Creatchman.png |image_size = |caption = |height = |weight = |real_height = |real_weight = |birth_date = February 27, 1928<ref name=slam>{{cite web|url=http://slam.canoe.com/SlamWrestlingBios/creatchman.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150423092616/http://slam.canoe.com/SlamWrestlingBios/creatchman.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 23, 2015|title=Canadian Hall of Fame: Eddie 'The Brain' Creatchman|publisher=SLAM! Wrestling|access-date=2009-01-26}}</ref> |birth_place = Montreal, Canada<ref name=slam/> |death_date = March 9, 1994 (aged 66)<ref name=slam/> |death_place = |resides = |billed = |trainer = |debut = circa late 1940s |retired = 1980s }} '''Eddie Creatchman''' (February 27, 1928 – March 9, 1994) was a Canadian professional wrestling manager. He was known as Eddie "The Brain" Creatchman, manager of wrestlers such as The Sheik and Steve Strong.
==Professional wrestling career== Creatchman began his professional wrestling career in the late 1940s. He was first a wrestler, then a referee and later became a wrestling manager.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.juifsdici.ca/en/eddie-creatchman/|title=Eddie Creatchman|date=19 January 2017}}</ref><ref name="Ghostarchive">Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/-QngXqkJzZE Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20151102151809/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QngXqkJzZE Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite AV media| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QngXqkJzZE&t=53s| title = Edouard Carpentier vs Mike Valentino | website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
As a manager, Creatchman's character was known for wearing sunglasses, smoking a cigar, and wearing a Star of David.<ref name=slam/> Creatchman helped promote his wrestlers who could not handle themselves in interviews. He is best known for his time on the Quebec independent wrestling circuit, where he managed The Sheik and Abdullah the Butcher.<ref name=slam/> 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.<ref name=slam/>
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 Sheik Ali.
Creatchman and his son Floyd owned International Wrestling from 1986 to 1987.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ic.gc.ca/app/scr/cc/CorporationsCanada/fdrlCrpDtls.html?corpId=2122863|title = Federal Corporation Information - 212286-3 - Online Filing Centre - Corporations Canada - Corporations - Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada}}</ref>
==Personal life== Aside from wrestling, Creatchman owned a scrap metal business, which he ran with his wife Goldie, who he married in 1949,<ref name=slam/> she died in 1985.<ref name=slam/> His son Floyd Creatchman, who also became a manager, died in 2003 from Crohn's disease.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://slam.canoe.com/Slam/Wrestling/2003/10/28/239613.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170723143133/http://slam.canoe.com/Slam/Wrestling/2003/10/28/239613.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 23, 2017|title=Floyd Creatchman dead at 46|author=Oliver, Greg|publisher=SLAM! Wrestling|access-date=2009-01-26|date=October 28, 2003}}</ref> He is survived by daughter Cheryl and grandchildren Joel & Alissa.<ref name=slam/><ref name="Clipped from the Gazette">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24611239/the-gazette/|title = Clipped from the Gazette|newspaper = The Gazette|date = 10 March 1994|page = 25}}</ref>
Also in September 2024, 30 years after his death; he was inducted into Wrestling Hall of Fame in Shawinigan.Qc. For FCL promotion in the same night that King Hammer, Réjean Désaulniers, the Reno Brothers, and the Mancuso Brothers were inducted.
==Wrestlers managed== *Abdullah the Butcher<ref name=slam/> *Don Leo Jonathan<ref name=slam/> *George Cannon<ref name=slam/> *Gilles Poisson<ref name=slam/> *Tarzan Tyler<ref name=slam/> *The Sheik<ref name=slam/> *Sailor White<ref name=slam/> *Kamala<ref name=slam/> *Pierre Lefebvre *The Sheik Ali<ref name=slam/> *Richard Charland *Frenchy Martin *Steve Strong *Rick Valentine *Neil Guay *Barney Irwin *Hercules Ayala *Bruiser Brody *The Masked Superstar *Scott Irwin
==See also== * List of Jewish professional wrestlers
==References== {{Reflist}} <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ic.gc.ca/app/scr/cc/CorporationsCanada/fdrlCrpDtls.html?corpId=2122863|title = Federal Corporation Information - 212286-3 - Online Filing Centre - Corporations Canada - Corporations - Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada}}</ref> <ref name="Ghostarchive"/> <ref name="Clipped from the Gazette">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24611239/the-gazette/|title = Clipped from the Gazette|newspaper = The Gazette|date = 10 March 1994|page = 25}}</ref>
==External links== *[http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/e/eddie-creatchman.html Online World of Wrestling profile]
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