Well of course Bert KNEW HOW to work. The important questions are:1) When was this? Is it before he went to (a) Wigan (b) India? If it's pre 50s, especially the 30s he wasn't yet the full Assirati.2) How good a shooter was Felix Miquet reckoned to be? (Presumably a lot better than Shirley Crabtree Jr for a start.) If it's someone who actually stood a chance with Bert, he didn't mind jobbing to them. Same with any of the old shooters, even George Tragos.
WE know today that the way Assirati went through the ropes to give Felix the finish was enacted , and you can just maybe see that it was so.
Reading reports over the years , when Bert did lose , this was perhaps the best trick to leave him looking a bit unlucky. In the early 1930's this was the exact same way he lost to Doug Clark.
You can see a height difference on the film if you look carefully , but Bert was very deceptive. A huge man in dimensions and tremendous power in those short legs.
A great piece of Professional Wrestling history
Well of course Bert KNEW HOW to work. The important questions are: 1) When was this? Is it before he went to (a) Wigan (b) India? If it's pre 50s, especially the 30s he wasn't yet the full Assirati. 2) How good a shooter was Felix Miquet reckoned to be? (Presumably a lot better than Shirley Crabtree Jr for a start.) If it's someone who actually stood a chance with Bert, he didn't mind jobbing to them. Same with any of the old shooters, even George Tragos.
Bert's dive throuugh the ropes and groggy re-entry was on a par for (un)authenticity with Syd's in closing bouts.
The whole thing is a clear work in my opinion.
My interest remains in working out what drove these national and, here, international arrangements.
Probably I am naive. Probably merely French francs. Lots of them.
So for Robinsons and Assiratis and Bert Royals and the rest: you set your invincibility up at home over many years, also because you CAN.
Then you take your invincibility abroad and prostitute it for the megabaucks where nobody will find out.
Seems to be the case here.
Bert continues to look a real handful.
That is an incredibly slow count for the pin falls!
WE know today that the way Assirati went through the ropes to give Felix the finish was enacted , and you can just maybe see that it was so.
Reading reports over the years , when Bert did lose , this was perhaps the best trick to leave him looking a bit unlucky. In the early 1930's this was the exact same way he lost to Doug Clark.
You can see a height difference on the film if you look carefully , but Bert was very deceptive. A huge man in dimensions and tremendous power in those short legs.
We are lucky to have the footage.