Posted June 29, 20223 yr comment_5984751 History of Pro Wrestling #12 (03:58:27) Matches from May-June 1953 HANS SCHMIDT vs KILLER KOWALSKI (05/08/1953; NWA Chicago; 00:27:24) FRED BLASSIE vs WILD RED BERRY (05/18/1953; NWA Los Angeles; 00:36:32) WARREN BOCKWINKEL vs WILBUR SNYDER (05/18/1953; NWA Los Angeles; 00:32:19) WILBUR SNYDER & FRED BLASSIE vs WILD RED BERRY & JACK MCDONALD (05/25/1953; NWA Los Angeles; 00:38:42) JACK ADKISSON vs ELLIS BASHARA (05/26/1953; Southwest Sports; Dallas Sportatorium; 00:03:32) Jack Adkisson later made his name in wrestling as Fritz Von Erich. Interesting to see him wrestling in the Sportatorium 30 years before his sons set Dallas on fire. MIKE MARINO vs MARINO MATASSA (05/29/1953; London, England; 00:01:01) This match took place at Royal Albert Hall. Clips suggest that Marino is the heel here, and this thread has some amusing speculation about how the Italian media (the source of the footage) might have edited the film to look like that was the case when it wasn’t. WILBUR SNYDER vs MR. MOTO (06/08/1953; NWA Los Angeles; 00:38:37) HANS SCHMIDT vs YUKON ERIC (06/12/1953; NWA Chicago; 00:26:18) WILBUR SNYDER vs JACK MCDONALD (06/20/1953; NWA Los Angeles; 00:34:12) The information I have on this particular batch of matches is a little more bare than I prefer. I had more difficulty than usual finding many comments on this set of footage. If you have any more information, please don’t hesitate to share it.
