The old "doesn't warrant a thread" thread is dead, so I haven't got a clue of where to toss this. So perhaps a thread on really wacky creative work.

 

This guy is frankly pretty brilliant. Of course he's exposing everything, but if you listen to and watch the crowd, they are "in" on the reality of everything, so they're having fun with it. He doesn't overstay his welcome, as just when you think it's getting long of tooth, the work to the finish is well thought out.

 

https://www.facebook.com/408428095912101/videos/932310970190475

Wasn't there a match with the Invisible Man as a skit in one of Cheech & Chong's movies?

II don't remember if this is the same one, but DDT had an invisible wrestler. Knowing DDT he probably held a championship at some point.

 

On a similar note, I'm still pretty enamoured with YOSHIHIKO. Him vs Ibushi is one of my favourite matches.

The hardcore title belt won itself in DDT as well.

I think Mecha Mummy is probably my favorite for creative things. The giant fist that he throws, the wings and the weakness to water all add to an awesome character.

I try to avoid this stuff. It's not that I have anything against it, it's just it's a very disillusioning experience in terms of how the mechanics of executing moves actually works. I don't want to know how the magician does his trick

This could be crazy old wrestler speak but Wolf Ruvinskis always claimed drawing great crowds and reactions against "El Hombre Invisible" in pre-Karadagian Argentina.

This could be crazy old wrestler speak but Wolf Ruvinskis always claimed drawing great crowds and reactions against "El Hombre Invisible" in pre-Karadagian Argentina.

That would make some of things I read about old time wrestlers feeling Karadagain was going to kill of wrestling in Argentina by getting too far away from "serious wrestling" when he started up Titanes seem very ridiculous.

That invisible man is better than Kane.

 

All joking aside, that's terrific.

This could be crazy old wrestler speak but Wolf Ruvinskis always claimed drawing great crowds and reactions against "El Hombre Invisible" in pre-Karadagian Argentina.

 

Pre-Karadagian is basically the Zbyszko-era. I'm not sure if Karadagian was in Argentina prior to his 1949 US run. Wolf debuted in Mexico in 1945. So there is only a slim chance that it wouldn't have been Karadagian-era. Though I do wonder when and how the transition to Pfeferesque and maybe even worse gimmicks came to be.

 

This could be crazy old wrestler speak but Wolf Ruvinskis always claimed drawing great crowds and reactions against "El Hombre Invisible" in pre-Karadagian Argentina.

 

Pre-Karadagian is basically the Zbyszko-era. I'm not sure if Karadagian was in Argentina prior to his 1949 US run. Wolf debuted in Mexico in 1945. So there is only a slim chance that it wouldn't have been Karadagian-era. Though I do wonder when and how the transition to Pfeferesque and maybe even worse gimmicks came to be.

 

 

Karadagian debuted sometime in the early 40s but the Titanes concept didn't start until the early 60s. In between the early Karol Nowina days and Titanes there was the Luna Park promotion. I don't know much about Argentinean wrestling but Mexican wrestlers often toured Latin American countries for, legend says, big money. Panama, Argentina and Guatemala were the three biggest. If what Ruvinskis says is true (I don't even know, but it's a story he often told) it may have happened during that period. This is only speculation as information from that era is hard to come by.

 

Ruvinskis was one of the few that would remark how wrestling was as much "entertainment" as it was "sport".

I think Mecha Mummy is probably my favorite for creative things. The giant fist that he throws, the wings and the weakness to water all add to an awesome character.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTFhh2nHQ1E

That invisible man is better than Kane.

 

 

 

 

All joking aside, that's terrific.

 

 

Yeah, it's goofy fun, though he's thought it out fairly well. The ref is pretty good as well.