February 1975

This is 2 out of 3 falls for the NWA International Tag Team Titles. The Funks have been champions since around August, or maybe October 1973. Young Jumbo has been wrestling for less than two years at this point. Bronko Lubich is the referee. Filmed for Japan TV We start off with Dory and Jumbo. Quick tag to Terry. Dory back in with test of strength and a headlock. Terry with a piledriver on Jumbo for a near fall, but Jumbo gets his foot on the ropes. Baba comes in with a big boot to Dory's face. Dory counters with some huge uppercut elbows in the corner. Baba slams Dory and Terry. Jumbo back in, hits a flying knee to Dory. Terry gets chopped by Jumbo, into a c…

Seven minutes of silent footage. Jack Brisco defends the NWA World Title.

This aired on Championship Wrestling 2/8/75. The date on this footage is wrong

One of the many good little matches WoS had in the 70s. Starts as a methodical technical bout, so we get all the usual great Szakacs escapes, and then develops quite some animosity as Prince Kumali doesn't like getting chopped at all. Kumalis holds looked awesome as they were mostly strength holds to the head or arms, and that man looked like he had insane strength. Hard as iron to break. He also did a tremendous job putting over how much those chops suck to take. Szakacs use of a simple chop as a potential KO from the middle of a grappling exchange rules as we all know.

Aired on WWWF Championship Wrestling 2/15/75. This footage then jumps to a 1979 interview with Albano and the Valiants