mark lewin seems really really underappreciated

Two of the NWA's toughest wrestlers and two of the best managers in a well-told story. Great stuff.

I was watching an interview with Kevin Sullivan who was telling stories about just how legitimate a badass Mark Lewin was. After about 10 minutes of talking about how Lewin would rip guys heads off and shit down their necks, the interviewer said something like “oh, so he was as bad as Haku?“ Sullivan was like “well let’s not get carried away“…🤣🤣

geez Mark Lewin a favourite in Australia in the 60s, looks like he's been on the juice

@Batman-wv5ng

5 жыл бұрын

Steve Bond Yes he was popular in Australia but it’s only act .

Lewin in tremendous shape at age 43. I'm no expert but he looks natural to me, i.e. no steroids. Kicking the opposing heel manager's ass and then his own heel manager in the same match has to be a rare if ever occurrence. My compliments to the script writer.

@evanabbott2737

2 жыл бұрын

He was such a cool wrestler👍

Good match between two greats with two of the best managers ever. Solid refereeing by the legendary Bronco Lubich. Lubich was quite the wrestler in the 1950s and 1960s.

@alainmallette2265

4 жыл бұрын

Both managers have been wrestlers too I think.

Mark Lewin was in better shape in the 80's than what he was during the early to mid 70's, Festival Hall in Melbourne Australia was the place to be. Saturday nights at the Hall and Sunday on GTV9 Television

Saw Tanaka in Tyler, Texas about this same time. I couldn't understand how almost no one there even realized they were seeing one of the greatest movie villains of all time. Tanaka played Oddjob in James Bond.

@RedSecondKiller

4 жыл бұрын

Harold Sakata played Odd Job in the James Bond movie Goldfinger. Tanaka played in the Running Man as Sub Zero with Arnold

@charlesclark9627

4 жыл бұрын

Wrong that was not Tanaka. Tanaka portrayed him in a spoof the spy who loved me!. Harold Sakata was oddjob! He also was a former professional wrestler! Tananka( Charles J. kalani) Hawaii!

Mark Lewin was a huge fan favorite in Detroit and Australia Big Time Wrestling and the original WCW

@Batman-wv5ng

5 жыл бұрын

Shon Simpson Yes he was very well build .

@longtimerasslinfan3500

5 жыл бұрын

Shon Simpson, back when it was Georgia Championship Wrestling

Before Tanaka was a Pro wrestler he had a short run as a professional boxer, his record was 3-2, he also ran a Judo/Jujitsu school and was a sergeant in the army. He served three months in jail when he was 18/19 for using strong arming tactics as a bouncer.

Tanaka built like a fire hydrant.

Mark Lewin is jacked here and in better shape at 43 than he was at 23! Tanaka is a bull and is 50 years old here!

That's how you do a babyface turn WWE !!!!!!!!!!!!

Hard to appreciate just how big he was physically on TV. We went to the same gym when I lived in Hawaii in the early 80s.

Both these guys were buffed. Massive and stocky.

The story telling in this match is absolutely fascinating. You have the dynamic of heel vs heel and heel manager vs heel manager. You also have the furthering of the Mark Lewin face turn. Hart and Lewin did a great job through their actions of furthering the Lewin babyface turn whereas today you would have lousy backstage segments with pointless comedy and the face looks worse coming out of it.

@MrSmitty1074

5 жыл бұрын

WWE is trash. smh

@stevekapp7148

4 жыл бұрын

I could not have said that any better

@williebowen2965

Жыл бұрын

@@MrSmitty1074 WWE is Human waste

Mark Lewin was the best. He could do anything

Tanaka had a great career. Battled Bruno Sammartino in the WWWF many times for the title. Tag team champ with Mr. Fugi!

@joeblow7407

3 жыл бұрын

Ridiculous ending......I love the way Mark made sure to turn on the mike.....Same routine. Get knocked outside the ring. Blade on the floor unnoticed.....and return to ring. Gary Hart was a great businessman. He was the chief booker for all the Texas shows.......Paul Boesch was the promoter and TV commentator......They did a great job!

Wow Mark Lewin face turn

much under rated Mark Lewin

I remember tori Tanaka wrestling in Australia in 76/77 and my father remembers mark Lewin and toru Tanaka wrestling in Australia in the sixties

People need to know that Mark Lewin was a babyface for MANY yrs at first in his career.His first turn was to Heel.

@stevekapp7148

7 ай бұрын

If I remember correctly he was a face throughout the first 20 or so years and became a heel when he came down to Houston around 1977 or so.

Gary hart with hair and jj with a perm - whoa

GreAt matches 👍👍 I miss tor

Great classic match, I remember lewin when wrestle in Florida as purple Haze, do you have mil mascaras, Tito Santana vs dynamic duo( Gino and Tully)

That’s best drop kick l seen .

@mattjack70

3 жыл бұрын

That was beautiful. No way Lewis is 245. More like 270. Dude was huge

Looking at earlier footage, you get to hear this great man speak. After his heel run with Gary Hart, he was a fan favorite in Texas but still had an obligation with Mephisto over in Atlanta(GCW) that same year. I much rather had Mark been a hero there as well standing along side Mr. Wrestling ll, Tommy Rich, Tony Atlas & Steve O.

Put bluntly.............Mark Lewin was the greatest!!

@joeblow7407

3 жыл бұрын

Lewin was an incredible talent. After a run in the early 60's with his Brother Don in the WWWF....he never came back. Could never figure out why!!!!

They had the exact same match on Channel 11.

2 bad asses in the ring

Lewin was great rassler and gave The only Sheik tough matches

Look how Tanaka carries Lewin at 10:56.

Tanaka has developed the rice fart most formitable weapon

JJ Dillon in rare form!

@highgate4767

3 жыл бұрын

His selling for Lewin was superb.

@Bushmaster10MM

Жыл бұрын

JJ Dillion is my all-time favorite manager. Dillon and Lewin still alive today. The wealth of knowledge in the business between those two is truly immense !

Lewin was KING !

@Batman-wv5ng

5 жыл бұрын

Andrew Esposito Very popular in Australia in the sixties lot of matches with King Curtis as tag team .

I remember lewin in Florida as purple Haze. I don't remember him being that built. JJ Dillon a very young JJ Dillon

@longtimerasslinfan3500

5 жыл бұрын

Glenn Schaeffer, Lewin was always in excellent condition. Based on Kevin Sullivan’s interviews, he still is this many years later

👍👍👍👍👍

Tanaka Toru has Bank Clerk

no wrestler filled out a pair of trunks like Lewin in his prime!

@jeffreyfuchs3208

4 жыл бұрын

Hunk of man

@libra42ful

4 жыл бұрын

.... I'd let him use my face as a punching-bag workout for his bulge AFTER each of his matches at this time...just kneeling there, arms hanging limply at my sides, as Mark holds onto my head by a fistful of hair while roughly beatin-up my face with his bulge...until he satisfies his "wrestling-itch" through his trunks, with my dick-bulge beaten face.... epitome of an alpha-masculine wrestler

look to the mighty of purpel haze (mark lwin)when he rip off gary hart jacket like piece a paper

Mark Lewin was built like a bull and as strong as one.

@davidshuff2700

5 жыл бұрын

TheTerryE u ain't lying. I used to see lewin at the gym when I lived in Hawaii. He was a beast. I watched him rep 375 twelve times.

@Batman-wv5ng

5 жыл бұрын

David Shuff Very strong man was very popular in Australia in the sixties .

@daveconleyportfolio5192

4 жыл бұрын

Supposedly a great swimmer too, routinely spending hours in the ocean.

Mark Lewin would have destroyed Brock Lesnar

@travels129

4 жыл бұрын

I doubt that

@diablo666541

4 жыл бұрын

There were sevral who could have

ルーインは切れやすいなぁ(≧▽≦)

タナカは見た目や体型がカマタとクリソツ。

ステロイド体。

Maddog lewin

Was sub zero now just plain zero

That was a awful 3 count

Ridiculous