Titanes en el ring

Titanes en el ring (Titans in the ring) was an Argentine lucha libre promotion. Titanes en el ring also refers to the promotion's television program aired between 3 March 1962 and 1988.

The Armenian Argentine Martín Karadagián (1922-1991) had started at 15 years old practicing Greco-Roman wrestling in the Asociación Cristiana de Jóvenes. The following year he joined a troupe of wrestlers, with which he traveled to Europe. After returning to Argentina in 1947, Karadagián maintained a fight at Luna Park against Ivan Zelezniak, El Hombre Montaña. After to give up the fight Zelezniak (five-time champion from 1947 to 1951), the Armenian was already one of the most attractive conveners of the wrestling in Buenos Aires.

In 1950s Karadagián fought against former heavyweight champion Primo Carnera. And in 1957 he maintained a wrestling match in the stadium of Boca Juniors, against former boxer José María Gatica, el mono. That same year, Karadagian starred in Reencuentro con la gloria, movie where a wrestler ("Pantera") accidentally killed a rival during a fight.

In 1961 Karadagián fought at Luna Park against Capitan Piluso, played by actor Alberto Olmedo. Following the success of combat was filmed the movie Las aventuras del Capitán Piluso (En el castillo del terror) with Martín Karadagián in the role of villain.

Martín Karadagián creates Titans in the ring in 1962, the TV show airs on Canal 9 in live from Luna Park. Karadagian had hired great figures of wrestling as El Hombre Montaña, Eduardo "Alí" Bargach (bodybuilder), Alberto Eijo, Pedro Goitía, Dakar, Ararat, el Indio Comanche, Mister Chile, and Hans Águila as referee. Karadagian himself appeared regularly in the show, in which he was regarded as the "World Champion".

In 1964 José Luis López (el campeón español) joined in Titans, time after, Karadagiám hired the wrestlers Rubén Peucelle el Ancho, Pedro Bocos, Ulises, Humberto Reynoso El Caballero Rojo and Domingo Lucciarini Pepino el Payaso.

In the late 1960s Titanes en el Ring incorporates a fantastic wrestling match against El Hombre invicible. In 1967 Karadagián was starring in the science fiction classic El hombre invisible ataca with Gilda Lousek, Tristán and Ricardo Passano.

In 1970s Titanes en el Ring moved to Canal 13, Karadagián incorporates fantastic and mythological characters as El Vikingo, Don Quijote y Sancho Panza, D’Artagnan, el Mosquetero, El Acuanauta, Poseidon, El Cavernario, La Momia Negra and others.