Wahoo McDaniels was one of the toughest men I've ever seen in the ring. He played in the NFL for 15 years. He was making $12,000 the year when he quit. He said he didn't know what money was until he started wrestling full-time. Rest in Peace Wahoo.
He played 7 years in the AFL and he retired after the Dolphins traded for knocking out several people in a fight and 2 cops that tried arresting him for it.
Honestly I don’t understand the hype about Johnny Valentine he was stiff and slow , all I ever see on these videos is him allowing other wrestlers to beat the shit out of him…. So if taking an embarrassing beating makes you a great wrestler then I guess he was 🤷♂️
I heard some retired wrestler say, when comparing chops, that Ric Flair’s made the skin on your chest red, but Wahoo’s made it start to bubble up like you’d actually been burned.
Johnny Valentine was one of the roughest and toughest men to ever enter the ring. and Wahoo was great too. I remember the first time I saw Greg Valentine. was like watching Johnny all over again.
This is wrestling at its best. They understood how to put the moves over and worked the fans into a frizzy. Hardly any great workers left today. Great video and great memories.
What a Shoot match! Replicas of the days when wrestling was truly real! Johnny Valentine was perhaps among the most toughest men in wrestling. And my gracious, Wahoo McDaniel's Chop was the destruction of anybody's face, head, and especially their chest! No wrestler could possibly survive that kind of punishment, except they just were triple tough, or was completely strung out on drugs!
True that Rick, I spent a night drinking with Greg in the Ramada inn in East Boston mid 1980s, such a nice guy until some idiot started to act up to him,calling wrestling fake,etc...It only took one mean look from Greg to shut the guy up who immediately after left the bar very humbled to say the least!
When George Scott became booker in Mid Atlantic one of the first things he did was dump a lot of the tag teams and put more emphasis on the singles. He then brought in Wahoo and Valentine and from that the territory would eventually become the hottest in the NWA, especially after Wahoo convinced Scott to bring in this young kid he met in Minnesota; Ric Flair.
Considering that son Greg had already made his wrestling debut in 1970, it would've been cool to see father and son team up against another wrestling family like the Funks. I've been scouring TH-cam in search of something like that but unfortunately have come up short. So I'm guessing that they probably never actually did do a tag team match against anyone.
Johnny looks just like Greg in this video. Johnny and his wife had 26 cats in the house and could not even sell the house because of the smell "as per Ric Flair".
Where are the videos from these two guys killing each other at the Sam Houston Coliseum in the early 70's? Man, I was there for many of their matches and folks, they probably wouldn't show them in their entirety today!!!
Damn skippy they wouldn't show them in their entirety today...hell most of their bouts were probably 60 minute matches, as that was the norm back then.
I had some hope that the NWA Classics service would result in more complete John Valentine matches surfacing but we only got the Bull Curry match, which was fantastic, but made me want to see more.
4:58 This is what I was looking for after Ric Flair said in a shoot interview, that he devised his "Flair Flop" from Johnny Valentine falling face first from Wahoo chops🤣
Some match, although I could do without that crazy lady screaming all the time. Wahoo was tough, and so was Valentine. Those chops of McDaniel's, though, they looked hard enough to break the skin. Damn!
"ThaaaWAPPPP!" Imagine, if you will, THAT sound if someone took a Wahoo McDaniel, Ric Flair match and was able to remove all the arena sounds EXCEPT the sounds of the chops thrown by these two Wrestling behemoths. Try to imagine that. This would be the closest way for me to describe that sound: "ThaaaWAPPPP"
Can anyone clear up a mystery for me? when searching this channel's uploads for "Starland Arena" , this video came up...is this indeed Starland Arena ? the reason I ask is I was hoping to see not only the old footage but possibly some family members who may have been in the audience....there is a family story about my uncle "RALPH" being very rowdy in the crowd and possibly entering the ring at a few shows before being banned...
Rumour has it: At Area 51 there its a secret, underground laboratory. And every generation, they unleash a new Valentine clone onto the wrestling scene
was the ref for this match a wrestler or former wrestler? Because the way he was handling, and at one point looking like he was about to punch, Johnny Valentine was incredibly unprofessional. I'm shocked Valentine didn't clock him.
The ref was Angelo Martinelli. He wrestled in the mid Atlantic area way back in the 50's. While scanning the sports section in the microfilm files of the Fayetteville (NC) Observer in the public library I saw that the paper then gave fairly good coverage to pro wrestling in the area. Martinelli was a 'maineventer at that time c. 1954. After retiring Martinelli naturally became a ref for Jim Crockett Promotions.
Wahoo could really move. Nothing like I remember from the 80s (not that it should since it says 1974). Also swore that was Greg Valentine. He really took that style from JV.
It matches back American 1974i want to say shut that woman up. Futurama are in the third row that's all I have to say about that stop throwing those popcorn boxes.
I am eternally in love with Wahoo. Sexiest and most beautiful bear ever. So strong,so beautiful,so manly. This comes from a heavy man,i wrestle too. I'd give my life just to have grappled this amazing beast !
I was too busy grimacing to hear anything but an ANNOYING, SHRILL SHRIEK. Could you imagine dating her or being married to that and having to hear that during coitus? It would shrivel up. Go hide. Then refuse to rise ever again. She scares me.
Just listening to that lady in the background make this video gold.She says "Get up i ain't ready to go home yet" priceless
You're right 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I had a great grandmother that was just like that lady...
There’s no doubt as to whether she thought wrestling was real
Mmhmm cheao
What a fan.....somebody needed a night out drinkin shine
Two of the legit toughest guys in professional wrestling, an excellent match!
Two of the heaviest hitters in wrestling it is an honor to see this!
Wahoo McDaniels was one of the toughest men I've ever seen in the ring. He played in the NFL for 15 years. He was making $12,000 the year when he quit. He said he didn't know what money was until he started wrestling full-time. Rest in Peace Wahoo.
He played 7 years in the AFL and he retired after the Dolphins traded for knocking out several people in a fight and 2 cops that tried arresting him for it.
@Rick B. Wahoo McDaniels is a hillbilly, so are his fans.
@@CoopyKat Says the idiot who can't even spell his name correctly. We'll see if you're smart enough to figure out your mistake.
@@treeherder2201 Who cares how a hillbilly spells their name?
Maybe do a little research before posting
At this time shown, in Mid Atlantic Wrestling, Wahoo was the top face and Johnny Valentine was the top heel, classic.
Two of the toughest wrestlers that there ever was
This is the NWA at it's finest! Proud to say that my town (Toronto) were part of the NWA from it's inception until McMahon absorbed us into the WWF.
Can you imagine any of the wrestlers today taking a Wahoo chop? They'd go back crying to Vince.
Big Shows are as bad ....
Funnily enough Bret hart went crying to Vince because he didn't want to take ric 'will whooo for booze' flair's chops
Honestly I don’t understand the hype about Johnny Valentine he was stiff and slow , all I ever see on these videos is him allowing other wrestlers to beat the shit out of him…. So if taking an embarrassing beating makes you a great wrestler then I guess he was 🤷♂️
I heard some retired wrestler say, when comparing chops, that Ric Flair’s made the skin on your chest red, but Wahoo’s made it start to bubble up like you’d actually been burned.
Johnny Valentine was one of the roughest and toughest men to ever enter the ring. and Wahoo was great too. I remember the first time I saw Greg Valentine. was like watching Johnny all over again.
If nobody told me different, watching this on my phone, I would think that is actually the Hammer in that match.
I agree,I couldn't wait till wrestling came on, on the weekend
This is wrestling at its best. They understood how to put the moves over and worked the fans into a frizzy. Hardly any great workers left today. Great video and great memories.
This is like UFC compared to today, it feels so real.
It's amazing. I look at Johnny Valentine and all i see is Greg the hammer Valentine!
i also think it is Greg
My two favorite wrestlers while living in San Antonio, Tx in the early 70's! Also, Red Bastien and Professor Tanaka!
Johnny Valentine was one of the best sellers there ever was in ring.
this is a shoot
A classic at its best !
These two in their prime could beat the crap out of anyone!
Wow, I was 5 years old.....I miss those days.
I am happy to see this extended version. I was only able to find short clips of them going at it previously.
Thanks for uploading this. I know Jim Cornette found alot of video tapes from Mid Atlantic that were being thrown out. I'd love to see all them.
Greg look and walks just like his dad. They nearly could pass for twins.
Early on, Greg was billed as Johnny's brother
What a Shoot match! Replicas of the days when wrestling was truly real! Johnny Valentine was perhaps among the most toughest men in wrestling. And my gracious, Wahoo McDaniel's Chop was the destruction of anybody's face, head, and especially their chest! No wrestler could possibly survive that kind of punishment, except they just were triple tough, or was completely strung out on drugs!
Brock lesner would not last a chance with these 2.
THIS IS WHAT WRESTLING IS ALL ABOUT!!!
Maybe not as high flying as today. But way better 2 legends
Love that fan. Worth every penny!!
One of the promotions I watch as a kid in the seventies.
There was no denying who Greg Valentine was it was he look just like his dad
True that Rick, I spent a night drinking with Greg in the Ramada inn in East Boston mid 1980s, such a nice guy until some idiot started to act up to him,calling wrestling fake,etc...It only took one mean look from Greg to shut the guy up who immediately after left the bar very humbled to say the least!
Both were tough as nails
Daddy much taller
But looks the same
The hammer admired his pops beyond
This was right before Valentines crash with Flair Woods and a few more ....September’75
This is awesome 💯
4:50... McDaniel snappin Valentine's head back with those mighty rights... Wahoo was excellent boxer and softened up his man standing up...
Wahoo made the chop famous
Tomahawk Chop! Could you imagine Wahoo, Ole Anderson, and Johnny Valentine in a bar room brawl.
here in texas these to guys had some blood baths back in the late60s and early 70s jv was a tough sob and wahoo too
I was there...sam houston coliseum 1969, 70, 71
When George Scott became booker in Mid Atlantic one of the first things he did was dump a lot of the tag teams and put more emphasis on the singles. He then brought in Wahoo and Valentine and from that the territory would eventually become the hottest in the NWA, especially after Wahoo convinced Scott to bring in this young kid he met in Minnesota; Ric Flair.
Someone yelling you somanabich from 1974 .... I douth they thought some guy would hear it 45 years in the future on a hand held computer , right ?
Considering that son Greg had already made his wrestling debut in 1970, it would've been cool to see father and son team up against another wrestling family like the Funks. I've been scouring TH-cam in search of something like that but unfortunately have come up short. So I'm guessing that they probably never actually did do a tag team match against anyone.
Johnny and Greg rarely worked together. Early on, Greg worked as Johnny Fargo with Don Fargo
Just great 👍
Johnny looks just like Greg in this video. Johnny and his wife had 26 cats in the house and could not even sell the house because of the smell "as per Ric Flair".
This right here IS wrestling.
Great stuff!
Great match
Those were the good old days...
Anyone here because of Dutch mantell’s review of Gunther vs Sami Zayne, WM40??
I remember Johnny Valentine used his fists in a way he called the Sledge Hammer in the late 2969s and early 1970s
The Golden Age of Marks
This was why I became a wrestling fan 😂!!!
オースィスープレックスを決めたけど、ブリッジしてないのでワフーの両肩が着いてました(笑)逆にバレンタインはそれ故に肩が着いていなくての勝利(笑)自滅ですね(笑)、勝ったバレンタインも訳が分からなかったでしょうね(笑)♥️
Where are the videos from these two guys killing each other at the Sam Houston Coliseum in the early 70's? Man, I was there for many of their matches and folks, they probably wouldn't show them in their entirety today!!!
Damn skippy they wouldn't show them in their entirety today...hell most of their bouts were probably 60 minute matches, as that was the norm back then.
I had some hope that the NWA Classics service would result in more complete John Valentine matches surfacing but we only got the Bull Curry match, which was fantastic, but made me want to see more.
Love the ref. Worth every penny.
They were both on a plane that crash landed. Wahoo pulled Valentine out of the plane.
it was realer back then
4:58 This is what I was looking for after Ric Flair said in a shoot interview, that he devised his "Flair Flop" from Johnny Valentine falling face first from Wahoo chops🤣
Those lucky people got to see this
To me,,,growing up threw this,,,this was pro wrestling at its best
Do you have more of these? Please tell us where you got them from And how old they are.
Wahoo vs the Great Malenko was awesome!!!
That was a fight, dude.
Tell me when Johnny starts dropping elbows on Wahoo about halfway through this video, that he doesn’t look just like “The Hammer” in his prime.
Before that was the faceplant bump. Crazy.
Some match, although I could do without that crazy lady screaming all the time. Wahoo was tough, and so was Valentine. Those chops of McDaniel's, though, they looked hard enough to break the skin. Damn!
Sometimes Wahoo's chops would break the skin of his opponent, Ronnie Garvin's would too.
No granny like an old school pro wrestling fan granny..listen to her go. The "awwwwwowowowowo" for Wahoo made me lose it.
"ThaaaWAPPPP!"
Imagine, if you will, THAT sound if someone took a Wahoo McDaniel, Ric Flair match and was able to remove all the arena sounds EXCEPT the sounds of the chops thrown by these two Wrestling behemoths. Try to imagine that. This would be the closest way for me to describe that sound:
"ThaaaWAPPPP"
The parrot in the front row cracks me up 🦜📣
Can anyone clear up a mystery for me? when searching this channel's uploads for "Starland Arena" , this video came up...is this indeed Starland Arena ? the reason I ask is I was hoping to see not only the old footage but possibly some family members who may have been in the audience....there is a family story about my uncle "RALPH" being very rowdy in the crowd and possibly entering the ring at a few shows before being banned...
Eddie Loco where is your uncle from
Damn, this hurts!!
Wahoo was supposed to be a stiff worker, you can see it in this match!
Ref must have been promised a % of Valentine’s winnings😂
Rumour has it:
At Area 51 there its a secret, underground laboratory. And every generation, they unleash a new Valentine clone onto the wrestling scene
OMG , was that lady screaming being paid to do so ?!
Some people should keep as many clothes ON their body as possible.
バレンタインもマクダニエルも前年1973年にそれぞれ日本プロレス、国際プロレス来日してシングルのタイトル(ユナイテッドナショナル、ＩＷＡ世界)を奪取してました！
When the ref use to actually enforce things
ギャーギャーとおばちゃんファンがエキサイティングですね～いい時代だなァ!
Oldest finish in wrestling LOLOL.
Just 2 old pros.....beating the pissant outta each other!!!!
I remember this match kinda whopsided, your only showing wahoo getting the better of him ,but johnny was chopping just as much
Looked like a couple 3 counts went down in the beginning of this vid. Bad ref? Am I seeing it wrong?
That ref was completely shitty. Your eyesight is fine.
“Get out of the damn ring you son of a bitch.” Fan-1974
Who is the ref?
+tgcts
The ref is Angelo Martinelli. He was wrestling in the Carolinas back in the 1950's
Angelo Martinelli...slowest ever
Johnny Valentine always seem to be stiff as a board. Body-wise is what mean. Limited movement.
Johnny tag Greg
🫡Real wrestling heckling
The ref was drunk
was the ref for this match a wrestler or former wrestler? Because the way he was handling, and at one point looking like he was about to punch, Johnny Valentine was incredibly unprofessional. I'm shocked Valentine didn't clock him.
The ref was Angelo Martinelli. He wrestled in the mid Atlantic area way back in the 50's. While scanning the sports section in the microfilm files of the Fayetteville (NC) Observer in the public library I saw that the paper then gave fairly good coverage to pro wrestling in the area. Martinelli was a 'maineventer at that time c. 1954. After retiring Martinelli naturally became a ref for Jim Crockett Promotions.
I'm from Fayetteville too man. Crockett Promotions was a big deal here.
Wahoo could really move. Nothing like I remember from the 80s (not that it should since it says 1974). Also swore that was Greg Valentine. He really took that style from JV.
Well yeah he played MLB for several pro teams
@@mrHoppedupford MLB ?????? Wahoo was in the AFL with the Jets & Dolphins
Valentine shoulders were down Wahoo sholud of won
Jonny Valentine I remember when he broke Jonny De Fasesio neck on tv
Was that Jumpin" Jonny DiFazio from Pittsburgh? Or someone else?
It matches back American 1974i want to say shut that woman up. Futurama are in the third row that's all I have to say about that stop throwing those popcorn boxes.
There's a fan with a horrible shrill voice in the audience, it probably had both competitors wanting to tap out to get out of there.
Norfolk va
I am eternally in love with Wahoo. Sexiest and most beautiful bear ever. So strong,so beautiful,so manly. This comes from a heavy man,i wrestle too. I'd give my life just to have grappled this amazing beast !
Johnny 6 ft 4 plus 255
Billed
The hammer his great son
Several inches
Shorter
I was too busy grimacing to hear anything but an ANNOYING, SHRILL SHRIEK. Could you imagine dating her or being married to that and having to hear that during coitus? It would shrivel up. Go hide. Then refuse to rise ever again. She scares me.
Andre the giant getting some🎉😂
Man, the refs sucked back then, too.
I thought about the stupidest finish I ever seen. Johnny Valentine looked stiff as a washboard.
All that red man had was chops thats it boring.
Those are the style matches Wahoo liked. He wanted it to be more like a brawl than a wrestling match.