Ace Freeman was long identified with the Pittsburgh office (Pennsylvania Wrestling, Inc.).  Born "Zoltan Friedman" on March 10, 1914 in Hungary, he migrated to the United States in his teens, settling in the Bronx.  Already possessing a knowledge of Greco-Roman wrestling, he learned the tools needed to be an entertaining catch performer.  Weighing less than 200 pounds, he was quick on his feet, and his strength matched his speed.  A leading contender to the array of light heavyweight championships, Freeman saved his money and was wise to both the economics and psychology of wrestling promotions.

According to reports, around 1954, he took over matchmaking operations in Charleston, West Virginia with wrestlers from Mondt, then, in 1960, joined "Toots" in Pittsburgh.  Running the day-to-day operations with Rudy Miller while Mondt traveled back-and-forth between Pittsburgh, Washington, and New York, Freeman was partly responsible for the boom in popularity Western Pennsylvania saw for pro wrestling.

Freeman himself was very popular with sports writers, wrestlers and fans, and tutored many promising up-and-comers at his Pittsburgh-area wrestling school.  His disposition worked well with the heavy personality of Mondt and aided in the balanced success that wrestling had in the region.  Along with veteran Miller, they produced a top-shelf studio wrestling program on WIIC and the Pittsburgh booking office sent wrestlers to dozans of arenas in several states.

Both Freeman and Miller stayed with the promotion through the ownership transfers of Mondt to Sammartino (1966) and then from Sammartino to Newton Tattrie (1971).  Freeman, amazingly, wrestled in his fifth different decade in 1970, and remained as popular with the audience as he had twenty years earlier.

One of the promoters who benefitted from Pittsburgh talent and worked closely with Mondt, Miller and Freeman was Eugene F. Dargan.  He was born on January 8, 1919 and used Ray Fabiani talent from the Capitol Wrestling Corporation as early as 1959 for events in the Pittsburgh suburbs.  The restructuring of the city's wrestling scheme with Mondt and partners gave Dargan an easier assortment of talent to run programs.  Dargan, who once trained boxers in New York City's famed Stillman Gym and was an athletic instructor during World War II for the Army, was a promoter for the WWWF/WWF through the 1980s.  He also ran Dargan's Auto Sales in Overbrook.  He passed away on March 10, 1988 at Shadyside Hospital.