at the same time. I think they would be amazed.... if they saw another big guy doing the highflying stuff, like how Wardlow does a Swanton or Brock doing a 450 (and hitting it, not his botched one) as a quick example. Not the skinny guys doing it.
Question for anyone willing to enlightened someone uneducated on this subject. This looks real grappling and wrestling, but had any elements of modern day pro wrestling existed at this time? Was any of this scripted or prearranged? Or would that not start until 20 or 30 years later?
@@drewburke6371I don't know, Jim Cornette has videos on that very subject. A lot to do with moving from a single star having a single match as part of a traveling circus show to putting on full on wrestling cards in "territories" and "who's gonna win when the champions of different companies/territories finally meet?!".
I want to say this era was still legit. I believe the "worked" era started with the Goldust Trio...Ed Strangler Lewis, Toots Mondt, and Sandow(?). Hopefully someone even more enlightened can explain even more. I Love wrestling history. 😊
This is incredible. Can barely find decent Capital Wrestling from the 50s/60s and here is footage 50 years older. Amazing
mcmahon was 26 at this time. jess mcmahon that is
8:15 I knew Verne Gagne was old, but damn…
😂
Nice.
It's crazy to think that this lineage goes back to the era of the first WHT and then slowly transformed to be recognized with the NWA Championship.
Awesome, great find
0:15 the man was a tank...that is freaky, one bad hombre
he lost in straight falls here
There are a lot of elements of this that resemble modern folkstyle wrestling.
This is amazing stuff!
Here because of Cornette
Never thought I'd see him on footage talk about a wrestling treasure
This is awesome 👍🏽
LOL just thinking how these guys watching “wrestling” today would say something like, “what is this gymnastic ballet we’ve been brought to?”
at the same time. I think they would be amazed.... if they saw another big guy doing the highflying stuff, like how Wardlow does a Swanton or Brock doing a 450 (and hitting it, not his botched one) as a quick example. Not the skinny guys doing it.
hackenschmidt lived til the late 60s and he despised what pro wrestling turned into as a spectacle
This is crazy!
Hands on the guy could crush rocks!
Would've gotten five stars if it was in the Tokyo Dome.
Question for anyone willing to enlightened someone uneducated on this subject.
This looks real grappling and wrestling, but had any elements of modern day pro wrestling existed at this time? Was any of this scripted or prearranged? Or would that not start until 20 or 30 years later?
The genuine "shoot" matches went on for 2 to 3 hours, that's WHY they had to start "working" them, to stop the crowd getting bored
@Pdog-o7i Makes sense. But do we know if the work matches were starting around this time, or was it all still shoots?
@@drewburke6371I don't know, Jim Cornette has videos on that very subject. A lot to do with moving from a single star having a single match as part of a traveling circus show to putting on full on wrestling cards in "territories" and "who's gonna win when the champions of different companies/territories finally meet?!".
I want to say this era was still legit. I believe the "worked" era started with the Goldust Trio...Ed Strangler Lewis, Toots Mondt, and Sandow(?). Hopefully someone even more enlightened can explain even more. I Love wrestling history. 😊
The work era began in the 20's
MMA 1908⭐⭐ 💥✨️🎉🎉❇️#eomreacts☪️🎉🎉✨️💥
How does the dude have a massive receding hairline in the match and a luscious full head of hair in the closeup poses at the end??
He has male pattern baldness in both, you can see it better from behind in the close up and on the mat the light does him no favours.
WOW! This is an old WWE match!! 😁😁
Wrestling exists outside of that joke of a sports entertainment presentation
Shout out to Bruce Jenner yo
Impressive how little the audience moves as if they missed a meal
haha
going by this style modern day wrestlers would've beaten these guys like a drum
how do you figure that
@@grawakendream8980 too slow. and not too agile by the looks of it in terms of shifting positions and scrambles
@@toratora9009 they look like they are going half speed to me though