Awesome seeing Dory Funk Sr and Terry Funk together..

Whoah, seeing Funk Sr. in action came unexpected and it took a second to swallow! Isn't there like close to zero footage of him wrestling? This is amazing!

Pro Wrestling during the kayfabe area. When the action was wild and the fans believed it.Im glad i became a fan in the 70s.Great film.

The animated black lady was "Big Mama" She had a huge white mallet, that she waved at the heels. I have her autograph somewhere!

WOWWWW! Incredible footage!! The interviews with the fans is priceless! Thank you, Sakuraba!! Houston was a great city for wrestling! I mainly remember Paul Bosch and KHTV channel 39

God damn this is the best thing on youtube! like a time capsule! if youre a wrestling true wrestling fan its a must!

Stan Stasiak was great here! His promo and selling of his own finish were so brilliant. Great doc.

@noydb-1

9 ай бұрын

That was brilliant job selling the fear and pain of getting his own move thrown at him.

@PTrep2727

6 ай бұрын

Does anyone know where Stasiak was billed from? He was 🇨🇦 but just curious. 😊

The face turn of Johnny Valentine was outstanding. These are the times when I first went to the matches with my Grandma. Not long before this, Nick Kozak was taken out of the ring on a stretcher and into an ambulance from the heart punch. I was 11and I believed it was real ! Thanks Mr Sakuraba for sharing this video, it brought back great memories!

@jabrockobiden9434

9 ай бұрын

It was

I'll never forget my dad taking me to see wrestling live back in the mid to late 60s when I was a kid. I'll never forget seeing a match with Wild Bull Curry. He got an ice pick and started gouging his opponent's face. It seemed like there was blood all over the place, but in actuality there probably wasn't near as much blood as what I remembered. He scared the hell out of a nine year old me back then.

This is INCREDIBLE.

Paul Boesch was a great promoter. From this interview and other ones I have seen , he seems like a polite person with a welcoming demeanor and really understands what pro wrestling should be. Thank You KAZUSHI SAKURABA , your channel is an informative look into Houston Wrestling , a promotion I have heard about ; but have not really seen much of. Good luck with future work.

@WorldCupWillie

3 жыл бұрын

I heard many wrestlers say good things about Boesch. Apparently he was always fare with the pay outs, unlike a lot of other promoters.

The way wrestling ought to be! Love the old school wrestling crowds too!

@googleuser7454

9 ай бұрын

they are so into it. makes the crowds today look asleep

Fantastic classic from the golden age of wrestling

This is extremely amazing, incredible, awesome, priceless historic footage for us to pass next generation in whch you can see old Boesch pplying sleeper hold to young Terry Funk, baby face Bull Curry and enthusiastic atmosphere of Huston Colosseum in the early' 70s. Tank you Sakuraba-san.

Thank you so much for bringing me back to my childhood. I was such a huge Johnny Valentine fan. Again, thank you.

Good stuff

@charlesalford2262

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed

@stephenaddison7064

3 жыл бұрын

Love you Hannibal.

I grew up at the Coliseum on a lot of Fridays lol

This was great ,brought back memories of wrestling at the kiel auditorium in st louis,mo

Hello,in 1972, I was 4years old.thank you for sharing your video 🙏👍

Great footage: Johnny Valentine vs Stan Stasiak, that’s how you build an angle.

Johnny Valentine sneaking the Heart Punch on Stan Stasiak. LOL

Amazing how the wrestling business went from this to what it is now. You had a diverse group of fans. Kids, hot women, different races. You had characters with diverse movesets and wrestlers who looked like men. Now its fat nerds living in their parents basement watching porn and wrestlers that look like high schoolers who don’t care about psychology but getting in their fancy spots. The marks are no longer in the seats but in the ring.

@argerinejordan4703

3 жыл бұрын

It was a good time back then☺

@iLLBiLLsRoastBeats

3 жыл бұрын

“The marks are no longer in the seats but in the ring” 💯 💯 💯 I was just thinking this to myself the other day. The wrestlers are so happy just to be there that they don’t give a shit what they’re told to do. I feel like real pro wrestlers would stand up to the office and say “this is bullshit and it’s terrible” or have the balls to go off script and feel the crowd.

@zimzimma5688

2 жыл бұрын

Corny is that you?????

@greatesttoysevermade3693

2 жыл бұрын

Your comment is spot on!

@rexsexson5349

Жыл бұрын

@@zimzimma5688 my thoughts exactly. Corny on AEW

Great footage. Great quality. Mr. Fuji 2:08 Dave Meltzer 10:46 Woman at 11:50 is funny. Thumbnail 15:41

This is the best history right here! Houston Wrestling at its finest.

The 2 referees was such a revolutionary thing! U never saw 2 refs unless dirty tactics were un previous matches... i so much love watching 70s houston wrestling

14:12.....😲.. what a story! Lucky to be alive after that encounter...

Johnny valentine as a face wow looked so much like his son here

@scribe570

3 жыл бұрын

In my territory (St. Louis) in the 1960s, I saw Valentine many times, and he did that baby face turn because as a heel, he was so charismatic, after awhile people wanted to cheer for him. So, I saw him wrestle as both.

The fans are keeping kayfabe better than Bosch's. You younger kids, you hear those fans lose their shit when the heels do their stuff, that kids is what you call having heat. Something these modern heels couldn't generate without help from carrier. You hear the pops the of crowd when the faces make a comeback, that is called getting over. Such a great time capsule of that era.

@jabrockobiden9434

9 ай бұрын

You cannot be a heel without offending someone

Still remember the address of the Houston Wrestling office from watching on channel 39. 1919 Caroline at the corner of Pierce. (I think its a parking garage for a hospital now)

This footage is unreal...thank you

This is absolutely great!

This was an absolute pleasure to watch. There's just something special about old school wrestling. And seeing it in black n white makes it feel nostalgic. I wish I could go back in time to experience these days. Watching these interviews with the fans and how close they were in interacting with the wrestlers is really cool. The diversity of people. The way it brought them together. But that woman who was talking about her experience with a man who was bent on hurting her and killing her was errie. But those 2 beautiful young ladies makes u appreciate what woman use to look like. Way more attractive than the woman of today who are completely covered in tattoos

Thank you for uploading this!

Johnny Valentine in his prime...OMG!

@chrisruth7057

Жыл бұрын

No that would be in 1962 10 years earlier not 1972

Look at the cauliflower ear on paul lmao

Danny McShane, Dick Raines, Wild Bull Curry...Who came to our house...Red Bastien...Classic...Bruno came...Nick Bockwinkle.. The Funk's...Wahoo, Johnny Valentine. Boesch brought them all in ...

Wish I could go back to 1972 life was so much better along with wrestling. I just subscribed only if wrestling was like this today.

No bad guys in wrestling one fan said at the 11 minute mark of this video? Of course the heels cheat. They want the match to be more exciting. Without them, you would have fan favourites wrestle each other and the fun goes out the window. The ring villains as we have all come to know are as important to the matches as the ring heroes are.

Looking forward to more great videos! It's going to be a long month till your back..LOL

Paul Boesch was the FN Boss, in pro wrestling history!!!

This is fantastic

Thank you for this and other uploads. As others have typed, fantastic footage.

I wonder if somebody has those photos the old man took. The wrestling is cool but I love them walking to the fans.

Remember those days one of those matches? I remember when I was young. Tiger Conway junior and Gino Hernandez.

Man dory sr just a couple of months before he died

Rock and roll express versus midnight express.

I’m a native Houstonian who grew up near the Coliseum and spent many a Friday night there. My dad would drop off and then pickup me and my friends. I’d cut a neighbor’s grass for $5 and buy a $1.50 balcony ticket. The heart punch was scary. Loved it.

Those rats are probably in their 70s now

Another great match. I remember The spoiler vs Andre the giant.

Is that the same Gypsy Joe who wrestled in Memphis?

More of this 🎉

Nice couple of rats in the thumbnail. 😉

@MrManfly

4 жыл бұрын

Ah yes the pro wrestling rats! Used to see a lot of them when I was young and going to the local matches. Some were ok some were not....

@bonebreakingaction6815

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrManfly I never saw any good ones. Wrestling never really drew in my town but it was always the same 5 or 6 fat nerdy girls.

@MS69

4 жыл бұрын

They're grandmothers now!

@rodzor

3 жыл бұрын

The girl on the left. 🔥

Who made this? Wow it's amazing. Can it be screened?

awesome video, was this recently found? I know the book was to get a rerelease sometime in February and they had an event for it in Houston. Was this shown at the event?

Terry was selling only slightly less thirty years later. RIP

@michaelpalermo354

7 ай бұрын

lol, right? He was great though

This is fucking amazing! Pls tell me there are more videos like this out there!?

Wow great stuff!

A great striped down documentary on the subject

16:12 I wonder if he’s still alive

13:40... the man who took the pic's says dont turn too fast.. the guy scrolling the pic's says im not! The very next picture he flips to the man describes the photo by using his middle finger! 😅😅😅😅

Mad cool!

Check out the cauliflower ear on Boesch!

@noydb-1

9 ай бұрын

Reminds me of the I W Marks jewelry commercial with Paul wearing an earring and saying if it makes his ear look good, imagine what it could do for hers.

I clicked for the babes in the thumbnail

I hope that nice Oldman is RIP ❤

How in the world did you get this footage thank you

@zx713

3 жыл бұрын

It’s public. Made for PBS.

Patterson with t heat

Johnny valentine was the greatest👍

Junkyard dog versus Butch Reed.

Who the fuck went "thumbs down" on this?

Who is the first wrestler introduced, I can't make out his name ? The one with the wild hair..

@ramonhernandez3391

2 жыл бұрын

Jesse the Body Venturea

@TheLeebo1962

Жыл бұрын

"Gypsy" Joe Corsario.

15:39 the ring rats were worth it

@kennycarlson9996

Жыл бұрын

they probley went for johnny valentine like all the other women did, flair confirmed that

Junkyard dog versus Mad dog sawyer

Wow...some babes there at 15:41....

@nohbuddy1

2 жыл бұрын

Lol don't see girls like that at wrestling nowadays

@jabrockobiden9434

9 ай бұрын

Except the ones that cosplay as wrestlers in the ring.

Llama Mr. Norman.

The announcer sounds like Boyd Pierce, was that him?

Damn those chicks were hot. Bet the boys had some fun with em thru the yrs! Great documentary

3:50 - 3:55. Lol, what the heck was that?

And better of the Hacksaw. Hacksaw Jim Duggan versus Butch Reed.

Rick Flare versus Butch read

Why 2 refs?

vince destroyed the business and oriented it towards male 18-49 and drove these types completely out

Hu$tletown TX

This can't be real

15:46 Those 2 are beautiful

@daveschannel747

Жыл бұрын

The hottie on the right for sure!!

this is when wrasslin was real , now its all fake and stuff , i dont even care to watch it any more

Those two young women in this video who talked about wrestling don't know the dangers they faced in 1972 is there were serial killers left and right all Crosses country looking for victims who look just like them

@areguapiri

11 ай бұрын

Stop the nonsense.

@jabrockobiden9434

9 ай бұрын

So what thats still today too, cant live in fear

@googleuser7454

9 ай бұрын

did the news cover these killings much? at the time, people may not have known the danger

14:12 Conceal carry. Especially around blacks.

Wait a minute I know they had COLOR by 1972. What gives?! I hate black and white footage. 😑

Worst than wwe .

@VancouverTVGuy

3 жыл бұрын

Any other kind of pro wrestling's better than the kick-punch-clothesline-bodyslam-finisher snorefest that WWE is and always has been.

@ddave7026

3 жыл бұрын

Wrong