Posted July 3, 20223 yr comment_5985230 History of Pro Wrestling #47 (03:40:12) Matches from 1964-1965 All of the Toronto clips from Maple Leaf Gardens are brief 8mm clips that it’s extremely cool to have in color! They feature many wrestlers for whom I am not sure we’d have any footage at all otherwise. Credit to the Maple Leaf Wrestling Video Archives YouTube channel for making these available. I spliced up the longer videos they posted into individual short clips so we could work them into everything else chronologically. JIM HADY vs JOE CHRISTIE (03/26/1964; Maple Leaf Gardens; 00:00:40) THE BEAST vs ERICH FROELICH (03/26/1964; Maple Leaf Gardens; 00:01:38) Froelich was mostly a mainstay in the Vancouver area and mostly worked in preliminary matches. PANCHO LOPEZ & SONNY BOY CASSIDY vs FARMER PETE & VITO GONZALES (04/03/1964; Maple Leaf Gardens; 00:04:19) PROFESSOR HIRO vs BILLY RED LYONS (04/03/1964; Maple Leaf Gardens; 00:01:54) WHIPPER WATSON vs THE BEAST (04/03/1964; Maple Leaf Gardens; 00:03:37) DOC GALLAGHER & MIKE GALLAGHER vs JOHNNY BAREND & MAGNIFICENT MAURICE (04/17/1964; NWA Upstate; Buffalo Memorial Auditorium; 00:07:14) BERNARD VIGNAL vs GRAND VLADIMIR (05/15/1964; French Catch; 00:09:46) MANUEL MANNEVEAU & CLAUDE GESSAT vs DAN AUBRIOT & BOB PLANTIN (05/15/1964; French Catch; 00:36:50) Segunda Caida reviews of the above two matches. PROFESSOR HIRO vs WHIPPER WATSON (06/18/1964; Maple Leaf Gardens; 00:01:51) RIP COLLINS & CHUCK CONLEY vs TARZAN TYLER & IKE EAKINS (06/18/1964; Maple Leaf Gardens; 00:01:06) THE BEAST vs ERICH FROELICH (06/18/1964; Maple Leaf Gardens; 00:00:46) PROFESSOR HIRO vs JOHNNY VALENTINE (06/25/1964; Maple Leaf Gardens; 00:01:53) RIP COLLINS & CHUCK CONLEY vs BULLDOG BROWER & IKE EAKINS (06/25/1964; Maple Leaf Gardens; 00:01:54) PROFESSOR HIRO & FRED ATKINS vs WHIPPER WATSON & YUKON ERIC (07/02/1964; Maple Leaf Gardens; 00:01:55) RIP COLLINS & CHUCK CONLEY vs JOE CHRISTIE & LEE HENNIG (07/02/1964; Maple Leaf Gardens; 00:01:59) AL TORRES & RAMON TORRES vs MIKE SHARPE & ART MAHALICK (07/28/1964; WWA TV Taping Los Angeles, CA; 00:12:31) BRUNO SAMMARTINO vs FRED BLASSIE (08/24/1964; WWWF TV; 00:02:28) PROFESSOR HIRO & FRED ATKINS vs JOHNNY VALENTINE & WHIPPER WATSON (09/17/1964; Maple Leaf Gardens; 00:01:21) RIP COLLINS & CHUCK CONLEY vs SWEET DADDY SIKI & BOB LEIPLER (09/17/1964; Maple Leaf Gardens; 00:00:30) THE SHEIK vs ERICH FROELICH (09/17/1964; Maple Leaf Gardens; 00:00:48) FRED BLASSIE vs BOBO BRAZIL (10/10/1964; WWWF Philadelphia, PA; 00:02:50) This clip surfaced decades later on the Coliseum Video release Best of the WWF Vol. 2. SHOHEI BABA & TOYONOBORI & MICHIAKI YOSHIMURA vs THE DESTROYER & BILL DROMO & KURT VON STROHEIM (12/01/1964; JWA; 00:41:43) BEARCAT WRIGHT vs BULLDOG BROWER (1964; NWA Upstate; Buffalo Memorial Auditorium; 00:08:32) ARABET SAID & ABDEL KADER vs PIERRE BERNAERT & MARCEL MANNEVEAU (01/10/1965; French Catch; 00:39:40) ISCHA ISRAEL vs JEAN CORNE (01/15/1965; French Catch; 00:20:07) ROBERT DURANTON vs GILBERT LEDUC (01/15/1965; French Catch; 00:21:27) BUDDY AUSTIN & KILLER KOWALSKI vs RAY STEVENS & MONGOLIAN STOMPER (02/12/1965; WCW Australia; 00:01:33)
