actually I love the subject of 'mental health issues' in PRO WRESTLING HISTORY a lot as well, if you see a pro wrestler who's billed as Russian he always is called a MAD RUSSIAN...if you see 'turk' he's always billed as TERRIBLE.
The received wisdom about all this is that former vaudeville acrobat and member of Farmer Burns wrestling troupe, Toots Mondt, teamed up with Ed Lewis and Billy Sandow to create the new "Slam Bang" style. Nothing would ever be the same again. The Stecher - Caddock match is a good example of the old style of worked WRESTLING. Toots could certainly wrestle but his main interest was getting bums on seats and his vaudeville experience allowed him to see how combining stage and film fighting with acrobatics and the whole "heroes and villains" thing could create a new form of entertainment. If all of this was for good or ill is a matter of opinion but certainly one result was that never again would the sporting press take wrestling seriously. What does everyone else think? Am I barking up the wrong tree?
Barbaric Bulgarian
Awesome Aussie
Swinish Swede
Jumping Japanese
Powerful Peruvian
Vivacious Vaticanian Zoological Zimbabwean Magical Madagascan Giant Greenlander Cheeky Chagos Archipeligan
Astounding Antarctican
and if it is a Greek, then he definitely is GOLDEN!!!
Here's more.
Amazing American
Brave Briton
Fabulous Frenchman
Wild Welshman
Super Scot
Ruthless Russian
Gruesome German
Immense Italian..........................etc etc
actually I love the subject of 'mental health issues' in PRO WRESTLING HISTORY a lot as well, if you see a pro wrestler who's billed as Russian he always is called a MAD RUSSIAN...if you see 'turk' he's always billed as TERRIBLE.
The received wisdom about all this is that former vaudeville acrobat and member of Farmer Burns wrestling troupe, Toots Mondt, teamed up with Ed Lewis and Billy Sandow to create the new "Slam Bang" style. Nothing would ever be the same again. The Stecher - Caddock match is a good example of the old style of worked WRESTLING. Toots could certainly wrestle but his main interest was getting bums on seats and his vaudeville experience allowed him to see how combining stage and film fighting with acrobatics and the whole "heroes and villains" thing could create a new form of entertainment. If all of this was for good or ill is a matter of opinion but certainly one result was that never again would the sporting press take wrestling seriously. What does everyone else think? Am I barking up the wrong tree?
The main thing to notice is that they are actually wrestling, or at least making it look like they are wrestling, more of a serious, mat-based style.
Dear Friends, please watch this video, any comments would be highly appreciated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQl6mmAtkbE&t=972s