I’m an avid history and tv archivist and I live for this sort of stuff, anyone else the same? I believe this is from the Capital Wrestling era of the 50s and most likely Madison Square Garden, at least from my bit of research.
It’s actually a surprisingly great and fast paced match and pretty decent quality, too. I love finding pre 70s matches on Youtube, so this was a pretty great find.
There’s also a version here that’s not as clear but it’s got some really good pre match promos, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnYXwFO73ms
Anyone else love finding these types of matches?
That was great! It’s cool to see the evolution of moves– like how the monkey flips, dropkicks, and Irish whips used here are done just a bit differently than they are today. Love it.
Do you happen to have a clip of that ballet wrestler? I don’t know his name but I think he was from the same era.
Are you thinking of Ricky Starr?
There’s a really good match between him and Karl Von Hess on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUAtQXnRtUE (p1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af-FhNcp8B4 (p2)
(Btw, yt-dlp is a really good Youtube downloader for archival purposes :))
