As previously mentioned my mum worked for Kendo at a Care Home he owned. She's just told me a story. They took the care home residents to see the wrestling. He's sat with them in the audience in normal attire. He goes off, gets changed, wrestle a match, changes back and goes and sits back with the audience and nobody noticed.
Watching these videos has given me so much respect for Kendo Nagasaki, the piece at the end in relation to Gorgeous George was both heartbreaking and inspiring, what a great person
@@Kaltagstar96 He did get signed and so did Doc Dean in '97 but they were only ever used as enhancement talent. They were dropped in about '98 Brookside returned to Britain while Doc Dean stayed in the US, worked for indies in Florida, retired and became a plumber out there before dying aged 49. Brookside had a really great match with Dean Malenko in 1998, look it up.
This is amazing history for a Yank that was aware of the British scene but had no clue, understand? Thanks fellas, you're doing the wrestling world a huge service!!
I was briefly trained by Robbie brookside at his school in Leicestershire Was a great time and he was amazing at teaching Couldn't believe he went to wwe
In his defense, William Regal is correct about Jasper, Georgia. It hasn't changed much. I was in the hospital there a few months back and it was backward beyond belief. The equipment looked like it was purchased about the time that Regal made that video.
That's how we knew him. Then one day he got included on WCW's December 1991 UK tour and got a win over Terry Taylor and did a Danger Zone with Paul E Dangerously later that evening and just over a year later he was in WCW.
The best bit of Robbie Brookside’s video diary is that rinky dink house show in Georgia. It’s no wonder Bischoff pulled the house shows when he took over!
Brookside regularly went heel under subsequent spells of hypnosis, even tagging up with Kendo. When under the influence, his hair (which he grew long later on) would fall across his face and he would shamble about looking like something out of Day Of The Triffids.
He had a more serious run as heel in 1995 when he turned on tag partner Doc Dean at a show in Croydon in 1995. It lasted about a year then Doc Dean rescued Brookside from a beatdown by old enemies the Superflies and Brookside went back to blueeye (babyface).
I remember being in the local pub a drunk fella talking about my neighbour Phil Johnson used to wrestle Haystacks and called him Grasshopper, of course I assumed it was bollocks untill iv just spotted him. 1:30 secs in. What the?
Superb... Loved this video...... The lunchtime spot for WOS Wrestling was perfect..... As a kid I'd get home from football training on a Sat morning and dive straight in front on the TV and watch..... If I was too muddy in the winter I'd have to sit on a big old towel. LOL I remember seeing this episode..... Maybe it's my memory playing tricks, but I thought the whole hypnosis gimmick was a more regular part of the Nagasaki character....... Was this a total one-off angle then?
You should interview Roy Wood from the Snakepit in Wigan, as was Rileys aGym that produced many wrestlers over the years , including Prter Thornley, Billy Robinson, Karl Gotch. I had the pleasure of spending a lot of time with Roy, his stories about wrestling in the 60s and 70s are amazing including ones about Kendo, who recently visited the gym. The rileys wrestlers were feared, quite rightly as Billy Riley taught them akk how to wrestle Properly as well as show wrestle, Billy was a world champion when it wasnt kayfabe
Good on Kendo for stickin' with his fella through what must've been a seriously rough time! ✊ Great wrestler AND a real stand up fella! Niceone Kendo! 👍
That hypnosis spot was about 30 years too soon. If it happened in a modern indy, it would have gotten a huge pop. Jim Cornette would have immediately hated it. \
Jim Cornette would point out that it was at least **intended** to be taken seriously. It got real heat over the next few years when Kendo would regularly lure Brookside over to his side and Robbie would become this zombie slave of Kendo's. It was the only heel work Brookside did until he went properly heel in 1995 when he turned on the late Doc Dean in 1995.
There’s a lot of romanticising of the decline of British wrestling in the 80s and how being taken off ITV was an attack on the working classes and whilst there’s some truth in it but a lot of it is Henry Hollocks! I was a 13 year old wrestling fan in 1988 and my head had been well and truly turned at that time by American wrestling. British wrestling seemed incredibly parochial and outdated in comparison to the glamour and excitement of the WWF, which was starting to reach these shores. At the most basic level American wrestlers were more often muscle bound athletes where British wrestlers, with a few exceptions, looked liked pot bellied hard men you’d find at any British pub or skinny blokes who looked like they couldn’t fight off sleep. And there was no attempt by the British promoters to invest in their product and update the image of the “sport’’. I know the standard of the actual wrestling was higher over here than their American counterparts but really the intricacies of excellent mat and chain wrestling are lost on the majority of the audience back then especially 13 year old boys! It’s easy to get all sentimental and blame Greg Dyke for the death of British wrestling but honestly take it from someone who was around the time British wrestling nailed plenty of nails in its own coffin!
I grew up in Stoke. Started training to be a wrestler in 2006 (didn't get anywhere) but we had Kendo on a number of our shows back then and him along with Johnny Saint were some of the nicest guys I've ever met from the WoS days. Fair few grumpy old bastards but Kendo really stood out as a good man.
GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT: (1) Greg Dyke had already announced wrestling being cancelled MONTHS earlier - this was if anything an Up Yours parting shit to him (2) Kendo and Robbie did further, more outlandish versions of this angle in the post TV era with the two even becoming impromptu tag partners - and the audiences LAPPED IT UP I saw a riot take place in Croydon in late "92 when Kendo actually made off with Robbie after the match, leading him back to the dressing room and presumably taking him home to his lair. (3) There was a previous 1978 match where Kendo hypnotised opponent Rex Strong to freeze and accept a flying tackle. It was televised, it's on TH-cam but nobody complains about THAT one, do they?
Kendo and Robbie were stll getting mileage out of this in 2008 for LDN. There was a great promo video of a fortysomething Brooskide in his back garden setting fire to a cardboard cutout of Kendo. I can't find it now but I've got it saved to hard drive from Back In The Day and I might upload it and post the link here.
Kent absolutely hated US wrestling and he often complained of UK talent forgetting the rules when they returned to the UK for bouts. Al Hayes springs to mind
I was actually there that night with my grandad - the first time I'd ever seen a wrestling show live. I don't recall the crowd reaction being as poor as Marc & Pete make out, although I was only thirteen, so maybe the excitement at being there has clouded my memory of the occasion. Seeing the mask pulled off Nagasaki was pretty much as "holy s***" a moment as you could have got in those days, and I can still vividly recall the haunting look in Nagasaki's eyes as he stared as Brookside. Looking back at it now, they probably did execute the whole thing exactly how they wanted, but despite the silliness of it all, I'd say the unmasking itself probably added enough shock value to save it from being a total crapfest on the night. Les Kellett had been on earlier in the card, and had the crowd eating out of the palm of his hand, and I got the impression that people had enjoyed the show as a whole.
With regards to the Kendo hypnosis thing. You know the old saying "too good to be true"? Well, I reckon in this case it was almost the opposite, namely, it was too bad to be false 😃
I saw riots take place in South London when Kendo would lure Robbie backstage with him after the match and the good guys would be in the ring yelling "Robbie! COME BACK ROBBIE!!!"
John Coghlan from Status Quo (not Dire Straits) was a friend & student of Kendo's co/manager Lloyd Ryan, so it's no surprise to see him here... (I also wouldn't be surprised if Kendo really did cure his bad back!!)
God, Nagasaki would've made a fucking killing in the Territory Days in the US, has he ever given a reason as to why he never moved to the states or even in Canada for Stampede or something like that? Also, it's great to hear that Kendo seems to have been a lovely bloke, especially compared to seemingly every other wrestler around this time period.
He mananged a large property portfolio and made more money from that than he ever would of from wrestling. Also, he was a headliner his whole career in the U.K. Travelling around the U.K. wrestling is a much more easier life than it was on the road during the territory days, he could wrestle pretty much anywhere in the U.K. and be in his own bed by midnight.
@@pmc8451 So, basically, Kendo didn't need to wrestle for the money, he just did it because he enjoyed it? I also guess it makes sense if you're already doing well without having to move to an entirely different part of the world, especially if there's no guarantee that he'd be as big in the US as he was in the UK.
Me, who always loved that CHIKARA spot where the Osirian Portal would hypnotize their opponents using Ophidian's slinky movements and compel them to dance, thinks this might actually be a better hypnosis spot. I suppose that might be too much sports entertainment for the crowd, though.
Breaking British wrestling with a hypnosis match against William Regal? Who does he think he is, Kendo Nagasaki? Wait, that one actually works, doesn’t it?
@@WrestleMeI mean WWE did that and a million other really stupid things too so, I guess I do enjoy that to a point. But I was way younger when Papa Shango was making Warrior bleed out of nowhere lol
This was the first British wrestling match I saw that ruined wrestling as a sport for me because it was such a dumb thing to include a ridiculous ‘hypnotism’ angle - it was not done in a believable way at all and showed up wrestling as more entertainment than sport - this match killed off the credibility that televised wrestling had earned over the years
3:59 "Dead British Scene" ha, so that's how you get round the problem of talking about the British scene years after ITV coverage ended while at the same time sticking to the party line of pretending that British Wrestling ceased to exist in December '88.
Are you seriously trying to suggest the British wrestling scene didn’t experience a major downturn after ITV coverage was cancelled? They never suggest it disappeared, just that it was dying on its arse for 15-20 years before the resurgence in popularity in the 2010s. Wrestling in Britain in the 90s and 00s mainly consisted of rip off gimmicks in front of less than 100 people.
@@pmc8451 All Star actually experienced an upturn in the first few years after TV - mega feuds likeKendo vs Rocco, Kendo vs (and sometimes teamed with! )Brookside, Liverpool Lads vs Superflies ... I know I was there, it was actually a really good time to be a fan. It did cool off for a while in the mid/late 90s (not for the first time in history) although there were some good storylines too like Danny Collins and Brooskide's repsective heel turns, but things stabilised just after the millenium with the whole new crowd of young wrestlers - people like James Mason, Jason Cross and Darren Walsh all coming of age plus a whole contingent from Hanley including Dean Allmark, Robbie Dynamite Berzins, Mikey Whiplash Gilbert, Playboy Johnny Midnight, Kid Cool, plus Brooskide and Doug Williams feuding over the British Heavyweight title climaxing in Brooskide winning back the belt in Sept 2002 at the Liverpool Empire. American Dragon Bryan Danielson won Rocco's old World Heavymiddleweight title at Croydon in 2003 beating a heel James Mason in a tournament final which Rocco and Chic Cullen curated. Houses on All Star tour dates ni the Noughties were at least as good as most ITV Tapings in the 80s and they got a shot in the arm from the promotional war with Scott Conway's TWA and later from RBW. I wonder where you get your information - are you just reciting what people like Fin Martin programmed you to think?
Oh and @@pmc8451 if you want to see for yourself what crowds were like in the post ITV era, there's plenty of TH-cam footage, including epsiodes of Welsh language wrestling show Reslo on S4C which carried on until 1995.
@@pmc8451 All Star actually underwent a serious RED HOT boom in the first five years with Kendo. Follow ups on the original Hypnosis angle with Kendo and Robbie were big reason Why, with Kendo often zombifying Robbie round to his wil, resulting in RIOTS as fans tried to rescue him. Sometimes hypno Brookside even formed a tag team with Kendo.
@@tempestfennac9687 it was at least meant to be taken seriously and follow up angles at post-TV era shows got real heat especially when Kendo would lure Brookside back home with him.
@@tempestfennac9687 All Star got a share of the final two years of TV and they used it to set up a bunch of storylines such as the hypnotism and the falling out between Kendo and Rocco which kept them pretty hot up until about 1993 when Kendo retired for the second time. All Star has carried on in business to the present day -promoter Brian Dixon died about a month ago age 75 and his grandon Joe Allmark is taking over.
@@kurtvanderbogarde8402 I see thanks (all I knew about the background for the match was that it was filmed in August '88 but aired in October that year).
It was, in fact, JohnCoughlan original drummer for Status Quo in the shot with Kendo, not Dire Straits :) Dont have people like this now would not be allowed
As previously mentioned my mum worked for Kendo at a Care Home he owned. She's just told me a story. They took the care home residents to see the wrestling. He's sat with them in the audience in normal attire. He goes off, gets changed, wrestle a match, changes back and goes and sits back with the audience and nobody noticed.
Every single story about Kendo just bolsters the fact he's one of the proper legends. Not just of wrestling, but EVER. WHAT A HERO
Does Care Home mean a retirement community, or a center for people with mental conditions?
@@MegatronYES
What used to be called Old folks home
Watching these videos has given me so much respect for Kendo Nagasaki, the piece at the end in relation to Gorgeous George was both heartbreaking and inspiring, what a great person
They were a real life couple. Kendo was known behind the scenes as "Peter the poof" back in the day
Wow. How you talked about Kendo caring for George in his last days really moved me. Great show as always!
Any of us should be so lucky to have someone like that
there for us in our last weeks! Top fella. ❤
“I will not have a fictional Japanese man hypnotise a scouser”
- Greg Dyke, 1988
Robbie Brookside scouse accent was spot on. Had my sides splitting.
Also what a great man Kendo is. A total legend in and out of the ring.
I was gonna say the same thing!!! Please guys, do more British wrestling content, with more accents 🙌🏼🙌🏼
That's how Rob speaks. I've met him loads of times at shows, top bloke.
Brookside is criminally underrated. The wrestler's not bad either
I wonder if his son is called Hollyoaks?
Dey do do dat don't dey
@@zetetick395 He has a daughter called Xia. She wrestles for the same company (All Star) that did this match in 1988.)
I'm interested in why he didn't get signed with WCW considering, in the video diaries mentioned in this video, he was in the states with Regal.
@@Kaltagstar96 He did get signed and so did Doc Dean in '97 but they were only ever used as enhancement talent. They were dropped in about '98 Brookside returned to Britain while Doc Dean stayed in the US, worked for indies in Florida, retired and became a plumber out there before dying aged 49. Brookside had a really great match with Dean Malenko in 1998, look it up.
Love when you guys cover the British stuff. New territory for an old jaded American fan. Gives me new wrestlers, characters, and stories to research.
Thanks Junky! It's become such a passion for us over the last few years, glad you're enjoying
"look at this kid. he looks like he could eat an apple through a tennis racket." - Regal
This is amazing history for a Yank that was aware of the British scene but had no clue, understand? Thanks fellas, you're doing the wrestling world a huge service!!
There are HEAPS of ITV and Welsh S4C on TH-cam, especially on channels like ArthurPsycho and Tellumyort. Why not work your way through them?
I was briefly trained by Robbie brookside at his school in Leicestershire
Was a great time and he was amazing at teaching
Couldn't believe he went to wwe
Look at Marc's little face in that picture at the end. Bless him.
In his defense, William Regal is correct about Jasper, Georgia. It hasn't changed much. I was in the hospital there a few months back and it was backward beyond belief. The equipment looked like it was purchased about the time that Regal made that video.
I just found this channel last week...you guys are my new favorite wrestling channel...fucking hilarious
He first time I saw wrestling in the U.K. Was attending university in 1984. Coming from the U.S. it was very confusing for me.
7 year old me watched this match live in 1988 on telly, 7 year old me thought "what the crap...?" Back then too!
Once again, thank you for another history lesson. Seeing a young studly Regal is a trip.
That's how we knew him. Then one day he got included on WCW's December 1991 UK tour and got a win over Terry Taylor and did a Danger Zone with Paul E Dangerously later that evening and just over a year later he was in WCW.
I absolutely love the focus on British wrestling on this channel. Love it!
I took cardboard cutouts of kendo to a show in Worthing that Robbie was performing at. He nearly laughed during the bout when I got them out.
I'm disappointed that he didn't do the 'hypnotised' sell like in this video, just to see if the crowd went as silent now as they did back then.
My memories of these days, absolutely blown away..... Keep up the good content !!
The best bit of Robbie Brookside’s video diary is that rinky dink house show in Georgia. It’s no wonder Bischoff pulled the house shows when he took over!
The only way to save it would be to have Brookside go heel and be all "I wasn't really hypnotized, what did you actually believe that?😂"
Brookside regularly went heel under subsequent spells of hypnosis, even tagging up with Kendo. When under the influence, his hair (which he grew long later on) would fall across his face and he would shamble about looking like something out of Day Of The Triffids.
He had a more serious run as heel in 1995 when he turned on tag partner Doc Dean at a show in Croydon in 1995. It lasted about a year then Doc Dean rescued Brookside from a beatdown by old enemies the Superflies and Brookside went back to blueeye (babyface).
Hey very sub here love your guys work so far was literally thinking of posting you this match, it's one of the first matches I ever saw
Would love to have seen that crowd's reaction to Undertaker's early magic stuff...
“Is it me that’s intelectually malnourished here is it everybody else?”
-Sir William Regal, 2015
I remember being in the local pub a drunk fella talking about my neighbour Phil Johnson used to wrestle Haystacks and called him Grasshopper, of course I assumed it was bollocks untill iv just spotted him. 1:30 secs in. What the?
Thank you so much for making these video. You are preserving wrestling history and have introduced me to a lot of good wrestling.
So funny. Loving all the old stuff.
I potentially watched this live 😄
Holy cow! William Regal used to dress like Booster Gold!
Superb... Loved this video......
The lunchtime spot for WOS Wrestling was perfect..... As a kid I'd get home from football training on a Sat morning and dive straight in front on the TV and watch..... If I was too muddy in the winter I'd have to sit on a big old towel. LOL
I remember seeing this episode..... Maybe it's my memory playing tricks, but I thought the whole hypnosis gimmick was a more regular part of the Nagasaki character....... Was this a total one-off angle then?
You should interview Roy Wood from the Snakepit in Wigan, as was Rileys aGym that produced many wrestlers over the years , including Prter Thornley, Billy Robinson, Karl Gotch. I had the pleasure of spending a lot of time with Roy, his stories about wrestling in the 60s and 70s are amazing including ones about Kendo, who recently visited the gym. The rileys wrestlers were feared, quite rightly as Billy Riley taught them akk how to wrestle Properly as well as show wrestle, Billy was a world champion when it wasnt kayfabe
Kendo was the best heel in British wrestling. Him, Haystacks, Finlay, McManus, and Rocco in that order.
As a young kid, the mystique of the Nagasaki character was off the charts! .....Cool as!
I saw Blondie Barrett wrestle Grado just a couple of years ago at my local leisure centre. The luscious locks were no more.
I'm friends with him on Facebook. He's just recently retired.
Good on Kendo for stickin' with his fella through what must've been a seriously rough time! ✊
Great wrestler AND a real stand up fella! Niceone Kendo! 👍
With his *manager* , they weren't bumming
@@jubeaumont6305 yes they were
I believe Wrestle Me are hypnotizing me to watch more of their World Of Sport wrestling content
William Regal has been in the us a long time and somehow still has a english accent
I love regal for switching to slang 😂😂
"I bet he could eat an apple through a tennis raquet"
(the little lad is RIGHT THERE, and in a quiet room)
Great video!
That hypnosis spot was about 30 years too soon. If it happened in a modern indy, it would have gotten a huge pop. Jim Cornette would have immediately hated it.
\
Jim Cornette would point out that it was at least **intended** to be taken seriously. It got real heat over the next few years when Kendo would regularly lure Brookside over to his side and Robbie would become this zombie slave of Kendo's. It was the only heel work Brookside did until he went properly heel in 1995 when he turned on the late Doc Dean in 1995.
Imagine that. People have been saying the business is dying since it started. And yet, its still here
"The most illegal move in the history of wrestling!"
I'm from Liverpool, and that's one of better fake Scouse accents i've heard tbf 😂
(Marc not Pete)
I DID MY BEST ROB (I didn’t)
There’s a lot of romanticising of the decline of British wrestling in the 80s and how being taken off ITV was an attack on the working classes and whilst there’s some truth in it but a lot of it is Henry Hollocks! I was a 13 year old wrestling fan in 1988 and my head had been well and truly turned at that time by American wrestling. British wrestling seemed incredibly parochial and outdated in comparison to the glamour and excitement of the WWF, which was starting to reach these shores. At the most basic level American wrestlers were more often muscle bound athletes where British wrestlers, with a few exceptions, looked liked pot bellied hard men you’d find at any British pub or skinny blokes who looked like they couldn’t fight off sleep. And there was no attempt by the British promoters to invest in their product and update the image of the “sport’’. I know the standard of the actual wrestling was higher over here than their American counterparts but really the intricacies of excellent mat and chain wrestling are lost on the majority of the audience back then especially 13 year old boys! It’s easy to get all sentimental and blame Greg Dyke for the death of British wrestling but honestly take it from someone who was around the time British wrestling nailed plenty of nails in its own coffin!
Saw this on original broadcast and thought it made no sense back then
I grew up in Stoke. Started training to be a wrestler in 2006 (didn't get anywhere) but we had Kendo on a number of our shows back then and him along with Johnny Saint were some of the nicest guys I've ever met from the WoS days. Fair few grumpy old bastards but Kendo really stood out as a good man.
The hypnotizing bit was done in the 1978 movie "The One and Only" starring Henry Wrinkler.
GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT: (1) Greg Dyke had already announced wrestling being cancelled MONTHS earlier - this was if anything an Up Yours parting shit to him (2) Kendo and Robbie did further, more outlandish versions of this angle in the post TV era with the two even becoming impromptu tag partners - and the audiences LAPPED IT UP I saw a riot take place in Croydon in late "92 when Kendo actually made off with Robbie after the match, leading him back to the dressing room and presumably taking him home to his lair. (3) There was a previous 1978 match where Kendo hypnotised opponent Rex Strong to freeze and accept a flying tackle. It was televised, it's on TH-cam but nobody complains about THAT one, do they?
Kendo and Robbie were stll getting mileage out of this in 2008 for LDN. There was a great promo video of a fortysomething Brooskide in his back garden setting fire to a cardboard cutout of Kendo. I can't find it now but I've got it saved to hard drive from Back In The Day and I might upload it and post the link here.
Kent absolutely hated US wrestling and he often complained of UK talent forgetting the rules when they returned to the UK for bouts. Al Hayes springs to mind
I can believe it. With Kent Walton's gentle commentary UK wrestling had a cosiness about it, but the US version was loud and brash.
The best wrestler there ever was and ever will be the undefeatable KENDO NAGASAKI
London Kentucky loves you guys
I was actually there that night with my grandad - the first time I'd ever seen a wrestling show live. I don't recall the crowd reaction being as poor as Marc & Pete make out, although I was only thirteen, so maybe the excitement at being there has clouded my memory of the occasion. Seeing the mask pulled off Nagasaki was pretty much as "holy s***" a moment as you could have got in those days, and I can still vividly recall the haunting look in Nagasaki's eyes as he stared as Brookside. Looking back at it now, they probably did execute the whole thing exactly how they wanted, but despite the silliness of it all, I'd say the unmasking itself probably added enough shock value to save it from being a total crapfest on the night. Les Kellett had been on earlier in the card, and had the crowd eating out of the palm of his hand, and I got the impression that people had enjoyed the show as a whole.
Ha thanks to WM!, my signed kendo mask and book arrived today, fun coincidence
I love the commentary
Just found your channel yesterday you guys are funny
Itv would kill for those viewers now. Any one knows what's on itv Saturday day time?
Shallow, I know, but DAMN, Steven Regal was quite the honey back in the day!
He's still quite the handsome gentleman now, of course but WOW.
With regards to the Kendo hypnosis thing. You know the old saying "too good to be true"? Well, I reckon in this case it was almost the opposite, namely, it was too bad to be false 😃
Thank you so much
I remember this. I was 10 at the time and I thought this was real 😂
Hold on, but isn't that drummer John Coghlan from Status Quo?
Yep! Kendo had healed his back apparently (in real life, it wasn't a gimmick)
absolutely... nothing to do with Dire Straits
First time seeing this, I'm amazed anyone thought this hypnotism gag would work.
It did work with time.
I saw riots take place in South London when Kendo would lure Robbie backstage with him after the match and the good guys would be in the ring yelling "Robbie! COME BACK ROBBIE!!!"
Now I'm shocked AEW never ran a hypnotism angle w/ Regal during his cup of tea there 😭😭😭
Seen Robbie Brookside in action. 2001🤔 Jake Roberts was over here then too.
The drummer is John Coghlan of Status Quo.
John Coghlan from Status Quo (not Dire Straits) was a friend & student of Kendo's co/manager Lloyd Ryan, so it's no surprise to see him here...
(I also wouldn't be surprised if Kendo really did cure his bad back!!)
I actually remember this from world of sport, watching it in my living room with my brother's,
You two are hilarious
Confused American here. Are you saying Regal's voice doesn't sound genuine but rather a caricature?
It's real but has a large element of showbiz performer sprinkled on top!
It's more that he's been in America for years and he's never lost his Blackpool voice!
I’m going to start using the term “intelligently malnourished” 😂 it’s a much nicer way
Are you honestly telling me that's not Tubes from Soccer AM?
God, Nagasaki would've made a fucking killing in the Territory Days in the US, has he ever given a reason as to why he never moved to the states or even in Canada for Stampede or something like that? Also, it's great to hear that Kendo seems to have been a lovely bloke, especially compared to seemingly every other wrestler around this time period.
He mananged a large property portfolio and made more money from that than he ever would of from wrestling. Also, he was a headliner his whole career in the U.K. Travelling around the U.K. wrestling is a much more easier life than it was on the road during the territory days, he could wrestle pretty much anywhere in the U.K. and be in his own bed by midnight.
@@pmc8451 So, basically, Kendo didn't need to wrestle for the money, he just did it because he enjoyed it? I also guess it makes sense if you're already doing well without having to move to an entirely different part of the world, especially if there's no guarantee that he'd be as big in the US as he was in the UK.
Pipe the Hamsters on this kid lmao
Can you guys cover the wedding between Uncle Elmer and Miss Joyce?
The unmasking bit was staged, including the hypnotising, hence Kendo’s head and plated hair was neat and tidy, and meant for the mask to come off.
I think it was ahead of it's time, Papa Shango !
Me, who always loved that CHIKARA spot where the Osirian Portal would hypnotize their opponents using Ophidian's slinky movements and compel them to dance, thinks this might actually be a better hypnosis spot. I suppose that might be too much sports entertainment for the crowd, though.
The day the grappling died
Damn, my nephew lives in Jasper, Georgia lmao
I wouldnt put it past AEW to do this, it would fit with House Of Black's goofiness
If Tony Khan sees it then they'll probably do it!
Wrestling is magical
Kendo Nagasaki vs Rex Strong - the original Hypnotism match from 1978:
th-cam.com/video/nkOo5kECAXk/w-d-xo.html
Breaking British wrestling with a hypnosis match against William Regal? Who does he think he is, Kendo Nagasaki?
Wait, that one actually works, doesn’t it?
Blondie Barrett is lucky Judas Priest didn't sue, lol
Rob might have gladly settled that one out of court...😂
Woooow! What a horrific match lol. Don't tell me that's one of the better or average ones. Please tell me this was a complete disaster
It's great until the hypnotism!
@@WrestleMeI mean WWE did that and a million other really stupid things too so, I guess I do enjoy that to a point. But I was way younger when Papa Shango was making Warrior bleed out of nowhere lol
Wrestler with a stereotypically Japanese name has a stereotypically Chinese (Manchurian) haircut. Very well thought through...
Fun vid, but it's the drummer from Status Quo, not Dire Straits !
Just saying... :)
Please do the Pat Paterson Skid Marks incident on Rikishi
To be tactic He did clothesline It's more of an elbow Smash.
Buzzinnnnn
This was the first British wrestling match I saw that ruined wrestling as a sport for me because it was such a dumb thing to include a ridiculous ‘hypnotism’ angle - it was not done in a believable way at all and showed up wrestling as more entertainment than sport - this match killed off the credibility that televised wrestling had earned over the years
Where's Big Daddy when you need him.
3:59 "Dead British Scene" ha, so that's how you get round the problem of talking about the British scene years after ITV coverage ended while at the same time sticking to the party line of pretending that British Wrestling ceased to exist in December '88.
British wrestling is still alive in 2023. All Star have just announced their first dates back after Brian Dixon's death.
Are you seriously trying to suggest the British wrestling scene didn’t experience a major downturn after ITV coverage was cancelled? They never suggest it disappeared, just that it was dying on its arse for 15-20 years before the resurgence in popularity in the 2010s. Wrestling in Britain in the 90s and 00s mainly consisted of rip off gimmicks in front of less than 100 people.
@@pmc8451 All Star actually experienced an upturn in the first few years after TV - mega feuds likeKendo vs Rocco, Kendo vs (and sometimes teamed with! )Brookside, Liverpool Lads vs Superflies ... I know I was there, it was actually a really good time to be a fan. It did cool off for a while in the mid/late 90s (not for the first time in history) although there were some good storylines too like Danny Collins and Brooskide's repsective heel turns, but things stabilised just after the millenium with the whole new crowd of young wrestlers - people like James Mason, Jason Cross and Darren Walsh all coming of age plus a whole contingent from Hanley including Dean Allmark, Robbie Dynamite Berzins, Mikey Whiplash Gilbert, Playboy Johnny Midnight, Kid Cool, plus Brooskide and Doug Williams feuding over the British Heavyweight title climaxing in Brooskide winning back the belt in Sept 2002 at the Liverpool Empire. American Dragon Bryan Danielson won Rocco's old World Heavymiddleweight title at Croydon in 2003 beating a heel James Mason in a tournament final which Rocco and Chic Cullen curated. Houses on All Star tour dates ni the Noughties were at least as good as most ITV Tapings in the 80s and they got a shot in the arm from the promotional war with Scott Conway's TWA and later from RBW.
I wonder where you get your information - are you just reciting what people like Fin Martin programmed you to think?
Oh and @@pmc8451 if you want to see for yourself what crowds were like in the post ITV era, there's plenty of TH-cam footage, including epsiodes of Welsh language wrestling show Reslo on S4C which carried on until 1995.
@@pmc8451 All Star actually underwent a serious RED HOT boom in the first five years with Kendo. Follow ups on the original Hypnosis angle with Kendo and Robbie were big reason Why, with Kendo often zombifying Robbie round to his wil, resulting in RIOTS as fans tried to rescue him. Sometimes hypno Brookside even formed a tag team with Kendo.
FFS, GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT!! 🧐
The drummer with Kendo and George was John Coghlan of STATUS QUO!! 🙄
So many triggered Status Quo fans 😂
kendo was the best on world of sports
If the character can hypnotize their opponents then how could they lose?
Whos idea was this?
Has anyone ever shown Jim Cornette this match?
I can't see him being a fan of it (to be fair, it's almost as stupid as the invisible hand grenade so I wouldn't be able to blame him for hating it).
@@tempestfennac9687 it was at least meant to be taken seriously and follow up angles at post-TV era shows got real heat especially when Kendo would lure Brookside back home with him.
@@kurtvanderbogarde8402 That's interesting. It would have been interesting to see this play out on TV as part of a full storyline.
@@tempestfennac9687 All Star got a share of the final two years of TV and they used it to set up a bunch of storylines such as the hypnotism and the falling out between Kendo and Rocco which kept them pretty hot up until about 1993 when Kendo retired for the second time. All Star has carried on in business to the present day -promoter Brian Dixon died about a month ago age 75 and his grandon Joe Allmark is taking over.
@@kurtvanderbogarde8402 I see thanks (all I knew about the background for the match was that it was filmed in August '88 but aired in October that year).
It was, in fact, JohnCoughlan original drummer for Status Quo in the shot with Kendo, not Dire Straits :) Dont have people like this now would not be allowed
People like this would not be allowed? Like what? A drummer in a mediocre rock band? Pretty sure there’s still plenty of them about
I remember watching this farcical rubbish when it was on telly. I loved the wrestling back then... until this moment.
Hypnosis? It can be done in prowrestling if set up and delivered correctly. But ridiculous on the face of it
Big Daddy
This insulted our intelligence
Robbie Brookside now looks awful!!