1973

Talk about it here.

Very good match but I thought they clearly topped it in the title match a few months later. Good exchanges and the cool character work you would expect from Breaks. *** 3/4

Funk and Race teaming together??? Silent footage...

Great stuff. Breaks is wary of the fact that he lost 0-2 in their previous match so busts out all of his tricks to gain the advantage. Saint remains focused and aggressive like he was in the March bout. The finish is kind of cheap but the rest ruled. **** 1/4

Tosh Togo is Harold Sakata, also known as the villain "Oddjob" in the 1964 Bond movie "Goldfinger"

Georgia Championship Wrestling makes its first trip to the newly opened venue, The Omni in Atlanta GA

This ruled. Great grappling and great hold-counter-hold wrestling. Impressive how they kept it lighthearted but retained that gritty competitive edge that goes along with great matwork. Finish also worked because of how clean the rest of the bout was.

The feud from LA comes to NYC. Crow please. Ass kicking time. WWWF fans expected these type of matches at the time.

This was like 70% carny horse shit and 30% nipple cripple. It was very Memphis, like something you'd expect to see in the Mid-South Coliseum rather than Madison Square Garden. Fuji takes his time early on and does his pre-match ritual, throwing salt around while some old lady comes up to the apron and hurriedly sweeps it away (in case he tries to use some of the residue later?). Strongbow is unmoved, stern faced and statuesque in the corner. They do a criss-cross rope running sequence and Fuji keeps going out to the apron for powders, but he only ends up being humiliated every time when Strongbow headscissors him back in the ring. Fuji then teases the foreign object, reac…

6/30/73 George Steele vs. Pedro Morales Classic WWWF match from the 70s. The crowd was loud during this match.

We have just 4 minutes of this match but deserves a mention here anyway. Archie '' The Stomper'' Gouldie defends the North American Heavyweight Title. Talk about it here.

Wilbur Snyder & Pepper Gomez defend their WWA Tag Team Titles

This is 2 out of 3 falls, for the NWA North American Tag Team Titles, filmed exclusively for Japanese TV. Patterson and Powers suddenly appeared in Los Angeles a few weeks earlier and were awarded the belts as the Inaugural Champions. This match is from the famous Olympic Auditorium (RI9-5171). Former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Joe Louis is the special referee. Powers and Patterson are interviewed by the Japanese announcer at ringside, Powers ridicules him and the Japanese people, telling him to "Speak English" and saying "Regardless of how hard you strive, you're always gonna be second. Second in stature and second in the ring. It's gonna be all abou…

This is from 9/3/73 not 1974. The Andersons are defending the NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Championship

So so fun. I have no clue where these chunky japanese middleweights learned to do these graceful, floating moves, but I will watch and enjoy. I want to call this state of the art, but for all we know this kind of match could have been done 20 years before in Peru. Whatever. These guys have really great execution and work almost like luchadores, with the swank rope climbing takeovers and spaceman armdrags and whatnot. They also slap the shit out of eachother! Animal takes a painful looking bump! Nearfall-ladden finishing stretch! For a workrate juniors match this was quite a joy to watch.

This is a Chicago Death match. We have a special ref in Mike Mazurki who by looking at his IMDB credits was a great character actor usually as a gangster. The loser of the match had to say Uncle over the microphone. The stips of the match were if Hart wins he gets to announce the next card. If Boesch wins Gary Hart can't bother him. This wasn't Tully/Magnum but was interesting . It was hard for the guys to call stuff with the mike, and working with a green ref. Still it was fun. I wonder how much a Boesch match popped the gate?

***Spoiler*** The footage is labelled incorrectly. They did have a match in Savannah for GCW five days earlier, but that went to a 60 minute draw.*** This is definitely CWF footage from Florida