Dutch was born Frank Stewart on 6/9/1935. He was good friends with Luke Brown who also was a wrestler and was partners with Grizzly Smith, The Kentuckians. Brown convinced Savage to go into wrestling and Savage debuted in Georgia in 1962 under the name Lonnie Brown. He wrestled in Tennessee under a mask as Mr X. He first used the name Dutch Savage working in Kansas City. He settled in the Pacific Northwest territory in 1966 and he was a frequent tag team partner of Jimmy Snuka and they help the Pacific Northwest Tag Team titles multiple times. He had bloody battles with Apache Bull Ramos and Killer Krupp. He eventually bought into the Pacific Northwest territory and would promote in the state of Washington.
