AUGUST 1973 WWWF MADISON SQUARE GARDEN PROMOS - PROFESSOR TANAKA, PEDRO MORALES, STAN STASIAK
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- Young Vince McMahon interviews Professor Toru Tanaka, WWWF Champion Pedro Morales, and Stan Stasiak with the Grand Wizard. I believe these are local promos for the August 27, 1973 card at Madison Square Garden.
Late 20's Vince McMahon is hard for me to conceptualize. In my mind he's always be in his early to middle 40's.
A pimple-faced Vinny Mac! This is the youngest I have ever seen him.
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Pro- Wrestling R... Well Vince currently today is 76 so that means by some deducting he was 27 when he did this interview back in '73 I was only 15 at the time I first heard Vince do wrestling announcing in 1972.
To me he’ll always be 60 😂
There was no one better during this period on the mic than The Grand Wizard. Ernie Roth brought something special to these promos. There will never be anyone else like him ever.
This may well be the earliest footage that exists of VKM working for the WWWF on television. He was only 28 here. If you listen, you can hear signs of his eastern NC accent coming through at times. What a find!
A much smaller Vince Mcmahon back then also.
How great it is to watch this promo interview of my childhood hero Pedro Morales🇵🇷. Who still was the WWF Champion.. As a kid I would be glued to the TV watching the WWF hour program.
Toro Tanaka a great legend, as also was The Grand Wizard. For me the Best Manager Of All Times.
Man, there's no taking away ,Vinces' ability to announce! Watching this takes me back to when he would call the matches on the main event before he was the owner. I wonder if Shane is upset at the fact that he can't take over the company like his father did from his grandfather.
Vince was, at best, a mediocre interviewer. A great interviewer would pick sides, treating the baby faces like their newborn grandchild and the heels as though they had just murdered that grandchild. Unfortunately, the LA territory re-used (wrote over) their video tapes so there aren't many surviving videos of the man, but Dick Lane was the best at interviewing wrestlers. Lane was a fast-talking actor who played bad guys and cops in 1950's movies, and he also was the wrestling announcer at the Olympic Auditorium during the 60's and 70's. Lane was also a much better match caller than Vince. When Lane left, the LA territory went into its death swirl.
𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙚𝙭𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙂𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙒𝙞𝙯𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙒𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜!
Outstanding promos. Old school greatness personified.
How I miss those days of pro wrestling excellence.
Me too!
Wow! I've never seen this one. A very young Vince McMannaquinn and the great Professor Tanaka. The Grand Wizard is exceptionally awesome!
Vince McMahon always a good announcer.
I like how Vince is putting Stasiak over by claiming he killed a man in Mexico.
Just like Clint Eastwood did.
Yeah but Vince was just “borrowing” an angle that was used by Ox Baker, the originator of the Heart Punch.
1973 - wow, Vince has been at this a LONG time.
His father started the company in 1961 I believe so like you said Vince has been at this forever and it took 40 years for him to start aging
@@paulanglovich6955 1953* Along with Toots Mondt.
@@paulanglovich6955 his grand father actually. Freddie blassie worked for all three mcmahon.
this is a 4 generation thing since his great grandfather
WWWF TV started in Washington DC. When the host, Frank Morgan wasn't given the raise he asked for, Vince Sr replaced with Jr. I think it was in 1969.
What fascinates me so much is that these promos would happen with the opponent literally waiting and watching the other talk smack about the other. A format that lasted until 1987 - 88. After that, they would tape separate promos for the foreseeable future.
Yes, that's something I noticed and it definitely hurt the reality of the situation.
@@danoc51 didn't hurt it at all, the fans continually packed the arenas
I snuck in early one time to the TV tapings in Poughkeepsie and while one guy was getting interviewed his " hated " opponent was standing 6 inches out of the camera shot pulling faces trying to get the guy doing the interview to crack up laughing . That was in 84 ,and shows how Vince didn't really care much about kayfabe as,there were plenty of non employees just wandering about watching as opposed to the nwa where the faces and heels always went to a different bar after the matches
Great find and awesome quality. Thank you for sharing.
Love ❤️ Pedro Morales R.I.P 🙏❤️
I believe This is the only tv promo around of pedro Morales as champion.
Professor Tanaka had a great career!......A headliner around the world!
Pedro started as a teen. I think he was at the old Garden around 1965.......Fabulous!!!! Stan beat Pedro in Philly...and Bruno won it back the next Garden card!
Pedro was on cards in 1963 before Bruno won.
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Tanaka was great on the mic during this interview a great talent and a great wrestler.
Stan Stasiak reminds me of the Maintenace guy you have at the Factory who fixed the broken machines.
He reeks of cigarettes and Vodka from drinking all night at the Ukranian Club.
He staggers over with a huge cup of Black Coffee and asks " what's wrong with the Machine?"
After he fiddles with the machine for 5 minutes he tells you "I"ll be back" and then you don't see him for the rest of the day!!
He would have been a veteran of the Korean war and thought the music of the day was a bunch of hippy pinko crap. His wife was not a handsome woman but was kind and was estranged from his oldest son because both were to stubborn to apologize.
@@davidmitchell6873 that's funny- good stuff!!!
Polish power
LMFAO
He did that on off nights. 😅
Priceless, an interview with Professor Toru Tanaka. This is a man who could do anything in the ring. He was built like a tank. He would have been a great transition champion. Wrestling fans would have paid an unbelievable amount of money to see someone take the belt back from him. Just like Superstar Billy Graham, wrestling fans loved to hate him. The WWWF could have rode on his back for a year putting babyface after babyface up against him trying to get their belt back.
Unfortunately Vince Sr. wasn't too bright.
You could never have turned Prof Tanaka babyface like could have been done with Graham.
> putting babyface after babyface up against him trying to get their belt back.
Not how the WWWF ever worked and STILL not how it worked when Junior took over. Instead there was four solid years of Hulk. Even Graham himself wanted to go face, not spend forever as heel champion. It's okay to have a visiting champion like Harley Race or Ric Flair in that role travelling from territory to territory making every local top star the Nearly Champion, but in a closed territory like the WWF or like what WCW had become by 1990 you need to send the people home happy that Bruno or Hulk or Sting is on top.
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Tanaka was Subzero in Running Man .
I always loved Professor Toru Tanaka! One of the GREATS!
And Mr. Fuji!
I luv Professor Tanaka!!!!!...love the old time promos! The best
Super rare stuff here! Very hard to find these old wwf empty arena promos before 1977. I'm still looking for ones with bruno as champion.
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1:54 Vince steps on Prof. Tanaka's foot to tell him his promo time is over.
This was 50 years ago. For me Vince being younger than 50 is hard to comprehend.
Thank you so much for this post. What a great find! WOW!
Awesome stuff! Thanks for this..........I hope there is more!
Wow...what a jewel! Is this the earliest WWWF Championship Wrestling program ever uploaded here? In the Vince Mcmahon Jr era..
Def with these promos they did.
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Pedro Morales was like the Roberto Clemente in wrestling 🇵🇷
Perfectly said
And people think Bob Backlund gave boring promos. Pedro Morales was boring in two languages.
Wow, talk about priceless footage! I never knew Vince had brown hair! The first time I saw him was around 80-81 on TV when he was announcing with Pat Patterson and he had jet black hair.
This is the wrestling I grew up to. It was quite a shock in 1984 to learn that the guy I always regarded as Vince McMahon, announcer, was, in fact, the owner of the WWF!
This is great stuff..... Thanks Jon... I owe you a few beers... :)
What a find! Thanks for this!
Oh my God, Vince said BELT. The sky is falling, the sky is falling!!
Stan The Man would win the title 4 months later in Philly
Yep and then bruno's 2nd and last reign as champion til 1977
Woah look at how young Vince is
Wow Vince is young 27 or 28 years old
Iron Mike McCord! Wow, impossible to find video on any of his WWWF matches.
Well he later dye his hair blonde and got bad to the bone he became Austin Idol ❤
@@SammyVideoPlex By becoming Austin Idol, he was also another Superstar Billy Graham ripoff!
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That is 100% true Billy Graham, was a role model for so many wrestlers.
I just started watching in 73(4 years old). IMHO 75-85 were the golden years of the game. For ALL of the territories. It’ll never be as good as this. The Monday night wars/attitude era was another great period, but nothing beats this.
This around where I came in. This is the age Vince was when I first started watching. Somehow this time period seems so much better than what we have today.
Vince McMahon Sr.'s World Wide Wrestling Federation with Head Color Commentator, Vincent Kennedy McMahon Jr., circa 1973.
3:55 Four months later, not 48 hours later, he finally did it.
What really fun is that I remember watching this on TV back in day lol I won’t tell you my age
This is so interesting to watch.
Crazy to think that 28 year old Vince would take over his father's promotion a decade later. Even crazier to think that Stan's son Shawn and Toru's son Pat would both one day work for the younger McMahon.
Duke Keomuka was Pat Tanaka's father not Prof. Tanaka
If I'm not mistaken this is the promo where Stasiak beat Pedro for the belt.
Then Bruno over Stasiak. Wow!!
Pedro won this matchup in MSG (8/27/73). It was televised on HBO and some matches were released on VHS.
Stasiak's title win was 12/1/73 in Philadelphia
Vince McMahon was 28 in this clip and was already on the mic since 1969.
When they asked Professor Tanaka what subject he taught at college, he answered "pain".
AWESOME MEMORIES..............THANK YOU
Stan was one of the kindest, coolest wrestlers I ever met 😊😊😊
Stan the man will be training ❤️🤛and resting 🍺48hrs and the grand wizard will be up 48 hrs 🎱!
Do you happen to have any championship wrestling episodes from 1971-1975? You have this promo and hopefully you have some complete shows.
Same. I fear a lot of them were erased or lost. I've looked for years. Esp for the promos.
Vince Mcmahon living legend. Pure Americana. Dare i say hero.
I remember watching Stasiak a few years before this when he wrestled in California and had feuds with Ray Stevens and Ciclone Negro. His finisher was the heart punch. Fans loved booing him.
To me, Stan always looked and sounded like he'd just come from his job at the Studebaker factory, installing seats in the new cars.
Say what you will about the Wizard, but boy, he was always enthusiastic about the upcoming matches!
Can’t believe Austin idol (Mike McCord) was in wwwf so long ago
You can see the dollar signs in Vince's eyes when a great promo goes down.
How can you NOT love Pedro’s Morales…
He was so boring.
Professor Tanaka kicks ass.
Iron Mike, became the great Austin Idol
Stasiak looks like he was discovered on Lane 7 at Buzzard Creek Bowl :)...Size mattered in the 70s, but physiques not so much...nonetheless (a McMahon-ism from the 70s :) ) he was a superb and believable heel, even more so with The Grand Wizard by his side...
Oh man, Vince looks like Shane here
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Jeezo, I was only 1 years old
I have been looking for footage of Iron Mike McCord for years. All you can find, is Austin Idol. Maybe some day.
Vince had that Cossell style going lol
This was before Morales lost the belt to Stan the Man. RIP both of them.
"I twain velly hard Wince."-P. Morales
I remember this been watching wrestling since 1969
Wow i never saw footage of Pedro as Champion
Well the Grand Wizard was off a few hours. It wasn't 48-hours for Stan "The Man" Stasiak, but a little over three months for Stasiak to beat Pedro for what was then the WWWF title.
Of all the title-holders, I think Stasiak is probably the most forgotten one, but after only being a transitional champion and holding it for 10 days.
Mr Vincent McMahon is the mastermind behind the WWWF .
Joe...if you're ever in MN, look me up...drinks are on me!
'73? Wow!
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God Bless Vince McMahon
Back then when vince, was a jober interviewer.
Fantastic!
This is epic!
They had both participants of a World title match in the same promo segment, and the heel didn't attack the babyface.
Stan The Man would eventually do what he predicted here. He would become the World Heavyweight champion. For 9 days! 😳
Great video
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Is this the earliest video footage of Vince put up online?
Vince used the words professional wrestling and belt.what.lol
Being In your late 20s was the best. I was spoiled kid in a candy store when it came to the chick's:)
I like how the bad guys come from the left and the good guys come from right. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
Pedro morales from Puerto Rico
1971
the heart punch-! DEADLY hahahahah
Any Kino Action Bince
Wow Vince was only 26-27
28
I was five months old.
When were the silver ring ropes introduced?
I miss Vince 😢
Is this how these promos were aired, or were they edited into the programs individually? It seems odd having the heel and face talking shit about one another while in the same room and nobody going "What did you say about me?"
That’s how they aired up until the mid 80s.
@@SWW72 Thanks. The way Vince used generic introductions for each person, I always figured they recorded a bunch of stuff and put it in where it was needed. It's good to know that even back then the McMahons did stuff that didn't make sense from a production standpoint.
At the time it didn’t seem strange, at least to me. In the context of it being a sport and not a soap opera as today, they were competitors being interviewed about an upcoming match. In boxing, Ray Leonard and Hagler really had it out for each other but there are dozens of examples of them standing near each other when the other was talking on the mic.
@Briguy52748 UHF Channel 47 at this point. WWWF on WOR-TV came in the later '70s after Eddie Einhorn's IWA initially got the midnight on Saturday evening time slot.
I loved these old empty arena promos. No crowds to yell over them. Great stuff.
Tanaka cutting a killer promo. Vince was so young, he had acne.
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Wow 48 years ago...
Man… that’s way back when he was just doing the job his dad gave him. Makes me wonder if he was already thinking how to take over the promotion. Lol
Pedro makes Bob Backlund look like Ric Flair in this promo. I am shocked he never became a stand up comedian...
This is how baby face champions were put out as. People rag on Backlund's promos but Jack Brisco, Dory Funk Jr and Pedro here were meant to be straight and serious. It was the heels who were the over the top ones.
@@MrAitraining I see your point but it is still boring to watch, Dusty was pretty good at promos for a face...
@@pulsarlights2825 Oh yeah. Dusty was great. It more a good guy world champion thing in the 70's and earlier. Professional wrestling really wanted to be serious back then. I miss those days. We all know it's a work but destroying kayfabe destroyed the business imo.
@@MrAitraining Wrestling has been a work since the Gold Dust Trio in the 1920s. Probably have to go back to Frank Gotch and George Hackenschmidt for a legit pro wrestling match....
@@pulsarlights2825 I understand all that. You're not telling me something I don't know. But there was believability in it 40 yrs ago. Now it's an open circus. Even an 8yr old know it's all choreographed now. An 8 yr old in the 1970's (and I was one of them) saw something different.
That is 200% effort from the Tanaka Man.
is that Possible
I always rooted for the heels but for some reason I did like pedro a lot.
You know Vince i think Vince blah blah blah - he was a good wrestler but sounded very rehearsed
Yeah , Vince , you know , Vince 😂🤣
Vince has been on TV since I was 6 years old I am now 58 That's amazing He's been there all my life God love a man
Crazy how Shawn looks just like his dad
Wait HBK's dad was a wrestler? Who? Pedro Morales?
@@jamesromualdez1405 Shawn Stasiak.