| Biography | Spiros Arion is a Greek retired professional wrestler who had extensive and successful careers in both Australia and the United States.
Arion was trained by a French wrestler named Andre Bollet. He made his professional wrestling debut in 1961 in Paris. For over four years, he wrestled around Europe before settling in Australia. In 1964, he arrived on the Australian wrestling scene under the name "The Golden Greek" and quickly became a favorite among Greek wrestling fans. He joined World Championship Wrestling and wrestled there until its end in 1978. He also wrestled in IWA Australia. In 1965, he went on to win the IWA World Heavyweight Title and IWA Tag Team Championship.
In 1979 Arion, billed as "The Iron Greek", arrived in Joint Promotions claiming a version of the Mountevans Rules World Heavyweight championship. He made televised defences of his championship against such opponents as Colin Joynson, Lee Bronson and Romany Riley before losing the title to Wayne Bridges. Following the defeat, Arion left British Wrestling, but his title would continue to be contested for over a decade afterwards in both Joint Promotions and All Star Wrestling, where it would be held by Bridges, Mighty John Quinn, Tony StClair, Steve Veidor and Kendo Nagasaki before being abandoned when final champion Bridges retired in 1990. |