David Mantell

Two of my favourites having what I will expect will be more my sort of match from OJ's - the shoe on the other foot from when I have to review a German brawl. It's both promising and short enough to do a blow by blow, so I'll risk the vast amount of typing involved and bite the bullet. "We join it near the end of Round 2" says Dickie Davies. We are just in time to see Nipper convert a side headlock to a grovit but Collins break it open into an arm at and force a whip that Riley has to take a bump in order to go with. Riley himself is impressed, the camera zooms in on him grinning from ear to ear about it. He gets a lunge on Danny before the bell goes. In the third, Riley gets an armbar of his own but a Collins gets behind to take him down in a folding press. Riley rolls back to get his feet on the ropes in time for the two count. Riley converts a rear waistlock to a standing full nelson but Collins rears out of it. They hit the ropes and Danny goes for a flying tackle. Nipper kicks out of the resulting pin attempt at 2. The first run out of mat comes after Riley absorbs a posting leg first, enabling him to turn, go through Danny's legs then when Danny tries for a legdrive step over him, twist round into the sunset flip position and take him down in a double leg nelson - but Collins like Riley manages to roll through and catch the ropes with his feet to force a break, to Walton 's disappointment. Colin's has got a cut under one eye but is not bothered, bashing Riley with two postings and a bodyslam that he takes a fair bit of a knockout count each time to recover from(8 for the second posting, nearly a KO!!!). Coming of he ropes. Nipper nips down on the mat but Danny leaps over to avoid a trip. Nipper leapfrogs him on the next rebound and catches him in motion with a neat cross buttock pin attempt that Danny BRIDGES out of beautifully. Walton praises Nipper for his speed and impactfulness of moves (Memo to OJ - That is what "Decisiveness" means, coming to quick decisions, right or wrong, not deciding to do something and doing it perfectly, hence why he has the the "running out of mat" problem. ) Nipper gets a legdrive into single leg Boston Crab. Collins starts to counter by pulling a leg out from under Riley so he converts to a single leglock plus cross face. He converts again to a Boston Crab - a nice neat transformation echoing both Kent's words and his own nickname - but Collins has a good go at pushing up out of it and looks likely to succeed on further attempts so Riley sportingly gives up and Danny pops up quickly to start over. Danny legdives and elbowsmashes the foot as an added weakener. He gets another legdive and tugs again on the leg sharply as a further weakener. Riley gets a legdrive of his own and tries to advance it into another single leg Boston but Danny just turns on the mat with the hold to stay in the guard. Eventually Eddie starts to turn Danny but Danny turns him back and uses a leg against Riley's face as an anvil to bash down on and transmit the impact to Eddie's head to break the hold, leaving Nipper worried about his teeth. He side chanceries Collins into a cross press but Danny kicks out. A lunge floors Danny and Nipper whips him into the ropes but Danny comes back with a sunset flip for a count of two. Riley goes for another side chancery when the bell goes. They shake hands. It turns out this bout is during Steve Grey's brief capture of the British Welterweight title and Kent plugs the upcoming rematch where (Spoiler alert and I don't mean Drew McDonald in a mask) Collins regained the title and relieved kind hearted good guy Grey of his guilty conscience for dethroning the kid and leaving him in tears. You can see the cut from earlier dried up - I guess it was an accidental hard way. Round 4 starts with Riley knocking Collins down with a lunge. He whips Collins into he ropes but Collins slips in behind for a takedown into folding press and get 2 counts before releasing. Riley comes off the ropes with a sunset flip for a folding press but Danny reversed it into a folding press with bridge then goes with Riley's escape for a more standard folding press. It's Riley in fact who reaches the ropes for a get out - despite Kent's words it's actually COLLINS who runs out of mat here! They comes off the ropes again and Nipper tries again for the sunset flip and again Collins counters with the bridging folder - and this time gets the one required pinfall! Riley sportingly helps Collins up and shakes his hand and raises it to concede Collins' victory. "A nice little bout" says Kent and I concur - well I certainly liked it enough to delve into microscopic detail about the moves and counters - detail which, when watching the match in normal time, the brain processes at TOP SPEED. It shows you how Kent brought up myself and a nation of other TV babies to appreciate this sort of thing - whereas for someone like @ohtani's jacket who has not had that upbringing as a fan it comes across as "nothing overly special" . Which goes to show the difference in tastes that different wrestling fan backgrounds can produce. Clearly a good wrestling match is in the eye of the beholder.

Had two job interviews on Teams this afternoon and watched this bout while chilling out in-between the two. I enjoyed it and decided to share here. At first glance Diamond Shondell (named apparently on account of being a fan of Tommy James And The Shondelles who did the original I Think We're Alone Now as covered by Tiffany - and apparently a lovely of jewel studded ring jackets - not really visible on the dark green velvet effort he wears here) wrongfoots the live audience who check out his stereotypically villainous looking bald head and moustache and boo him as the heel he is, not least as he's in against the hugely popular (and legitimately deaf) Kilby. Kent telling the TV In fact, DS is very much a clean wrestler and something of a funnyman as evidenced by his early overselling of fotearm smashes. - Walton compares him to Kevin Coneely whom we examined several pages ago. He isn't as loudly comic as Coneely. It's more subtle stuff to do with expressions etc. On the attack he is quite a methodical wrestler, working down body parts, including a bodyscissors atomic drops similar to the French "Ah Ouais" spot. His mind games get him unglued in round 2's opening seconds when he taunts Kilby wdith fisticuffs posturing and slaps to the head - Kilby is not amused and responds with a hard forearm, powerslam and cross press for the opening fall. Shondell looks like he's going to attack Kilby between rounds but in fact he just wants to shake Kilby's hand. Kilby accepts and looks to be returning the favour but blasts Shondell with a forearm- clearly he doesn't trust this opponent. In Round 3Shondell maintains control of an armlevers for quite some time despite various tricks by Kilby. In the end Alan blasts the Irishman between the shoulder blades to break the hold - an ironic response given what happens in round 4. Back in the third, Shondell takes a leg but Kilby smartly widens DS's leg angle to floor him with a boot to the chest. The two shake hand after the round. In the fourth Shondell repeatedly attacks Kilby with blows to the upper back between the shoulder blades. He builds on this attack by dropping Kilby on the ropes neck first and posting him so the original injured back shoulder blades bear the brunt. These shoulder weaknesses soften up Kilby for a victory roll equaliser. Some fans still boo Shondell, most respectfully clap a well scored fal.Suddenly Shondell is not just a funnyman but a potent wrestler not to be underestimated. Kilby is taking him seriously too - starting with a standing atomic drop, bouncing Shondell saddle first of the top rope and getting the winner with a vertical suplex and cross press. The two shake hands and the crowd cheers Shondell unanimously. Not necessarily a technical masterpiece despite a few good bits but a masterclass in how to turn a crowd around and get them to like someone their instinct is to distrust. There's quite a good retrospective piece on Shondelles here:

This thread still needs a French equivalent of myself on the British thread, someone who grew up with this territory, got their basic education of what Wrestling should be from Le Catch and can explain ideas and ways of doing things that are alien to American fans.

We're probably very lucky (O)RTF was not junking prints and negatives of matches whose sales rights had expired like BBC Enterprises did with a load of BBC programming, compounding existing takes wiping and resulting in big gaps in archive holdings. Nineteen years of overseas sales kinescopes prints were there to be on boarded onto the INA when it was started up in early 1975.

INA's stock for the period 1956-1974 are, as we have discussed quite a bit by now, overseas sales prints (plus one rare surviving colour transmission VT from Jan 69). From 1975, once INA was launched, the stock was updated with off air recordings which seems to be slightly patchier (as evidenced by TV listings for non surviving bouts and occasional surviving alternative footage sources such as Albert Sanniez inVs Marc Mercier 1978 and Fred Magnier Vs Bob Plantin/Michel Di Santo Vs Michel Chaisne/(beginning of) Antonio Pedera Vs Jean Claude Bordeaux on the Bob Alpha YouTube channel.). and I'm in may have been taped to fulfil a quota.

This match was from the same show as the Reslo bout above with the same Reslo markings on the ring and appears to have been filmed using the same camera positions but has German commentary with a ringside intro by a German speaking host - possibly Peter Wilhelm. Not sure what this was for - was Catch Up still going by this point? If so, did S4C ever try to get a similar deal with ITV or Channel 4 for footage to be broadcast to the rest of the UK, perhaps with Lee Bamber or even Kent Walton on commentary? (Well there was the Wrestling Madness home video to consider- perhaps it was a pilot for a Rest of the UK edition of .Reslo.) In the final seconds of the video some zReslo style title graphics appear on screen if that's a clue. Match is pretty much predictable CWA quasi American fare - the spirit of Otto's matches being carried on after the man himself retired from the ring. Michiyoshi Ohara as scowling Fuji Yamaha and local Eddie Steinblock are about the best workers here and probably deserved better than this. Unfortunately all they get to do is chop each other a bit before Yamaha gets eliminated first and Steinblock second. Kauroff here is a babyface and German old school institution that fans bring signs applauding. He goes down third, leaving us with an all North American handicap tag. Cameron, ex Stampede North American champion who died in a CWA ring a couple of years later, was a mutton dressed as lamb roid case. Mastino on the other hand had a big time American career ahead of him - as Mantaur the human cow. Here he's a cheap replacement for Leon White who is about to dethrone Sting in a couple of weeks. I've speculated on Max Crabtree sending Leon in to do a Daddy tag -maybe Mastino would have fit that bill too. Rambo, the third North American in this. is the hero of the CWA having sent Bull Power packing back across the Atlantic to replace Lex Luger in WCW. Unfortunately he just works 80s/90s WWF style. Mastino finishes him off with a splash that would have made the said Big Daddy proud, leaving himself and Cameron as survivors. Amusing moment towards the end - Mastino and Cameron both double team and elbowsmash Rambo. The commentator calls this with the Anglicism "Double Elbow" which just so happened to be the name of Big Daddy alternative backdrop finisher Referee is Didier Gapp but even he doesn't do his "comedy" routine as miserable bossy petty official a la Saulnier.

Bumping this up as I just covered their Reslo match from a year earlier on the British thread (page 41)

From the Introduing thread, in response to @ButchReedMark Lucky old you being one of the youngest to get into British wrestling via regular TV. I'm glad Reslo was a formative experience for people much younger than me. After the likes of you, there was only a few thousand in Croydon (Fairfield Hall), Hanley (Victoria Hall) Bristol (Colston Hall) Southampton (Guildhall) etc who got that upbringing from having a relative takes them along ever month into the late 90s and the C21st.

Nearing the end? Rocco's end a year later was actually a bolt from the blue. In 1990 in his late 30s he had a raging hot feud with ex tag partner Kendo Nagasaki going, reignited after the Mongolian Mauler's failed attempt to reunite Kendo and Rocco for a triple tag (six man tag) ended in Rocco falling out with both. When Rocco and Danny were not having bouts like this, they would have been teaming up on All Star shows to face Kendo andvthe Mauler or else Kendo and Blondie Barrett. The two play to type. Collins is handling the action and science, using technical escapes and the odd flying bodypress, moonsault or dropkick to Rocco's roughouse and dirty tactics, his only actual wrestling being a decent headscissor. Fans would have just put the heat on Rocco but it would have been good to see more what he could do technically. Bryn Fon clearly mentions Rocco's dad Jim Hussey among the Welsh. Collins at one point throws his water bottle at Rocco and gets away with it. (retribution for similar antics by Rocco in their ITV match or maybe just a regular spot these two did. Collins gets a good folding press attempt for two. The two exchange face first piledriver attempts. Several times they tie each other up in the ropes, the last time Collins getting his neck caught in the ropes like in their New Catch bout in Paris France the following year (which quite properly is reviewed where it belongs on the French Catch thread, not on here, and which I've just bumped up to page 44). Unlike that one where the ropes ended it on a TKO, here Rocco goes for a standard piledriver for the pin, a more OJ-friendly finish. Plenty of action if a bit lacking in actual technical wrestling and Kent Walton would have criticised it for that, more a good fight than a good wrestling. Bear in mind the context of Rocco's war with Kendo at the time, the wild stuff was what he was most in practice at doing.

Personally I'm a Syd fan and only into the Piper, the late 67 post-Piper tracks and Syd solo. The rest of Pink Floyd was just prog rock dinosaur garbage which I don't care for.

Lucky old you being one of the youngest to get into British wrestling via regular TV. I'm glad Reslo was a formative experience for people much younger than me. After the likes of you, there was only a few thousand in Croydon (Fairfield Hall), Hanley (Victoria Hall) Bristol (Colston Hall) Southampton (Guildhall) etc who got that upbringing from having a relative takes them along ever month into the late 90s and the C21st.

Well I may as well post one of these. Born in the UK 1974, childhood in London/SE. Paternal grandparents brought me up to be wrestling fans. Her brother (his brother in law) was a Lancashire-style catch shooter in the gyms of Edwardian London. His branch of the family moved to Vancouver,his granddaughter my second cousin Diane, a retired secretary in her 60s can do a passable double wristlock, all she can remember of shooter training he would give her after they would watch Al Tomko's NWA All Star on TV each week. Grandparents despite being devout wrestling fans probably went to their graves (her 1981, him 1988) unaware of Dusty. Harley, Funks, Race, Flair. even probably Bruno unless they ever went to see Ali/Inoki on CCTV. Anyway, me: Devout Saturday afternoon TV fan, life revolved around our wrestling while blissfully unaware of live across the pond. First saw WWF in 1987 and HATED IT, the totally unremitting over the topness of it, the way every match was like a Big Daddy tag match (Hulk Hogan was transparently, the total lack of rules. the silly names like Slick and The Honky Tonk Man. Then I discovered the Aptermags and PWI and got into how they presented this world more seriously and intelligently. Especially the NWA where the wrestling was apparently more serious. As a teenager I read about Flair Vs Steamboat and expected it to be like Marty Jones Vs Fit Finlay or Johnny Saint Vs Steve Grey. Hell, I thought Flair Vs Sting would be like this. Started going to live shows at the Fairfield Hall Croydon to fill the gap left by the end of TV. I have an emotional connection to late 80s/early 90s All Star with Kendo Nagasaki as top star much like most of you Americans have with late 90s ECW. We didn't have a satellite dish so I identified more with WCW (on Saturday afternoon on ITV in the early 90s) partly from an outdated romantic notion of being an NWA fan. Bought a cheap VCR and tapes and watched loads of old WWF and NWA/WCW. Got into Coventry University in the Midlands, I still live there today. Lost contact with British wrestling for a while in the late 90s as it was less well organised online (at least the real British Wrestling not the wannabe American promotions) than American wrestling and there were only WWF tribute shows in my area. Finally things got more organised in the early Noughties. WCW died a death and I hadn't really liked what it and the WWF had become anyway and then WWF became WWE and how could I take American Wrestling seriously anymore when the last remaining major league promotion's name spat kayfabe back out in your face like that? So I gave up on current American wrestling and while keeping an oar in for the old days just focussed on my roots as a Traditional British fan. James Mason and Dean Allmark mean far more to me than John Cena and Dave Batista ever will. And that's the way it's been for nearly 24 years. My only interest in contemporary American wrestling is hearing Cornette put the boot in. However I remain a keen follower of Old School British Wrestling past and present with an expanded interest in the next door fellow Stronghold European territories of France and Germany/Austria as well as a keen interest in the extinct territories of southern Europe - Spain, Italy, Greece - and the Middle East - Egypt (Mamdoh Farag) , Israel (Rafael Halperin), Lebanon (the Saade/Mansour brothers)and Saddam's state run promotion in Iraq with Adnan as lead babyface. I like coming on here and explaining British Wrestling to you Americans from a native point of view and it is interesting to see what you lot make of "My" wrestling. French Catch has quickly become my second favourite territory after my native British Wrestling; although I don't have quite the same native knowledge, it and German Catch are old British Wrestling's closest relatives and I can largely relate to them. I can generally be found on the following three threads: I also have explored a lot of my underlying thoughts and philosophy as a non North American fan in this largely dead but interesting thread: I do very rarely pop up on other discussions.

Reslo goes to Germany again! And this time they've bought some bits of ring with a Welsh Red dragon ring apron on the side nearest the camera and some emptied skins of Reslo corner pads stuck (badly) over the tops of the corner pads of what looks like the same make of ring as seen in the 1980/1981 Hanover tournament camcordings and come to that some of the early 70s B/W docu footage with the young HansI Rooks etc We join the action in round 6. Starts like its going to be a brawl with Zrno pounding Ocean in the corner but turns into a pre-Steve Wright German match of the Dieter Sr/Chall generation with lots of holds being slowly worked over to twist every last scrap of Pain and drama from a sleeper, an armbar, Zoltan Boscik 3 in 1 etc. Like the ghosts of the old ring are taking over it's young competitors. Ocean uses both round breaks to get fouls in. Round card girl in glittery baseball cap and bad early 90s lycra fitnesswear. Backdrops and DDT from Ocean for pinfall and KO attempts in Round 7. Crowd perk up when Zrno leads them but then dies down again. Round 8 more forearm smashes. Ocean gets a flying axehandle. He tries a flying tackle off the top but Mike converts it into a horizontal blockbuster suplex for the one fall required.

(Oh good, the board is working again) This was not just the end of the Joint Promotions era but the conclusion of the All Star Vs Joint promotional war which saw ASW taken over the territory from Joint. ASW remains dominant to this day.

Two big round numbered anniversaries this month. The 40th anniversary of All Star Wrestling's first show at what would be it's showcase venue, the main Concert Hall of Fairfield Halls Croydon on February 12th 1985 The 30th anniversary of the final show of Max Crabtree's Ring Wrestling Stars, the former Joint Promotions.

True but you've stated your taste for the German variant of hard hitting brawls (just as I have my Walton-induced taste for technical exhibitions) and Leon White, before Sting and Harley Race tamed him somewhat, is reliable for that sort of thing. I forgot to mention there appears to be a professional camera crew operating at ringside. I wonder where that footage is now. Is it a Japanese crew that flew over with Fujinami and Hatori or were the CWA still doing their professional grade video productions? I guess we can rule out S4C - they sent OB units across the North Sea for some other tours but not this one.

From the sublime to the CWA. There's not a lot to be said for this match action wise - predictable brawl WCW might have treated as something exotic. OJ will like it though. Plenty of outside the ring action, tables and that. It's interesting for Vader's intro tape which seems to consist of Leon White making asthmatic noises as he lumbers to ring. Also for being a bit of a crossroads in two NWA/WCW world champions. Fujinami having been NWA champ during the spring 1991 trial separation of the titles, before losing it back to WCW champion Flair. Vader meanwhile is just weeks away from beginning to replace Lex Luger as WCW heel champion and Harley Race's Sith Apprentice starting with the Jan 92 Clash where he and Mr Hughes lose to the Steiners in what was - Luger to Vader substitution aside - was otherwise a rerun of the main event WCW in London night 3 of 3 just days before this German bout. For winning, Vader gets a big bottle of champers and a trophy cup to drink it from. Otto Wanz also posted up to congratulate him.

Okay, I've reviewed some British and some American wrestling this weekend, now how about a French bout? How about ... I was attracted to this bout more by Mantopolous than Catanzaro as VM seems a lightweight who can fit with both the George Kidd/Johnny Saint British school and the (pre-Arbitre Chiotte) Michel Saulnier/ Le Petit Prince French school. This is my second Billy match, previously I reviewed a 1971 bout on here where Catanzaro sported the biggest greasiest gangsters' quiff this side of either Ronnie Kray or Steve Logan MK1 and a strutting temperament to match Steve Haggerty (actually I compared him to the other Dangerman, Colin Johnson. To be honest, it's more Billy's kind of bout than Vasil's. VM does a bit of prancing like Ricki Starr at the start (Catanzaro gives him a real WTF glare) and takes over nicely at the end but there's less darting around than other Mantopolous bouts - his best tricks in this is to snatch for holds at the last second out of nowhere. The main middle of the bout is mostly Billy's - big power moves and the occasional foul. There's a bit of ringside brawl involving the smashing of a table #ecw haha. Commentator decides to buttonhole Catanzaro and ask him how he feels after Vasillious pitches him out of the ring, twice. He also goes on the pull and interviews a "pretty blonde" (we don't see her) female fan who has never actually been to matches before, knows no names of holds, giggles a lot. Commentator also does a Kent Walton and tells us about the wrestlers' hobbies - Vasil paints while Billy likes "musique moderne - or what sort? Rock? (He mentions the Beatles). If so Billy is in for a good year with Sgt Pepper and The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn out in coming months. Vasil wins in the end with a Tombstone piledriver - appropriate as this reminds me of The Undertaker squashing someone like Koko B Ware.

Am astonished that I can't find an earlier review of this. Introduced by Dickie Davies's holiday cover man Fred Dineage. Part of a tournament to fill the British Heavy Middleweight title Rocco lost to Light Heavyweight champion Marty Jones but which Jones had to give up. First three rounds of this were not screened, but were presumably quite technical and clean. So is the next round that we DO get to see. Good surfboard from which zRocco uses the bottom rope to nicely tug himself free. Rocco neatly unrolls an armbar and uncorks himself from a headscissor in the guard with his knees. Royal scoots through Rocco's legs from behind to take said legs instantly for a Boston Crab. Rocco rolls out into into La Bascule back & forth pin attempts. Ironically it's Bert who triggers the breakdown of this towards the end of round 5, slapping Rocco around to provoke Rollerball into a string of closed fists punches that get him a first public warning. From there the technical bout is (mostly) over and the fight begins. Rocco gets a count of 6 with a Tombstone piledriver which softens Royal for a reverse suspended neck breaker (lengthways over shoulder backbreaker) for the opening submission. Rocco scores an excellent Randy Savage top rope axehandle, Royal is standing so it's legal but fishhooking in his mouth is not, so Rollerball gets a Second And Final Public Warning. A bite (real foul) is not spotted however. Rocco nearly gets a second straight fall with a folding press as counter to monkey climb. Royal resorts to an illegal closed fist of his own and has a double arm submission in the works by the end of round 7 Round 8 is mostly brawling and fouling apart from a neat power lock (standing figure four leglock ) by Royal. Early in round 9 he legflips, slams and shoulder presses Rocco for the equaliser. And so to the final round, more of the same as round eight with Royal fouling (closed fists) as badly as Rocco. It goes to time and Rocco wins a coin toss and eventually win the tournament and take back his British title, which he eventually cashed in for the World title in 1981.

Been a while since I did a German Catch review but just saw and enjoyed this one Signsquad put up. Berlin, Leap Years Day 1992 (same day Sting beat Luger to win his second World title). The man I credit with revolutionising German Catch in with one of the children of his revolution in a good clean scientific match. Ring looks suspiciously 1970s French, much like the one in the 70s Roland Bock Vs Beau Jack Rowlands clip, maybe it never did get transported back westwards across the Rhine. In fact the overall presentation smacks of being more the traditional VDB than the CWA. Small venue, looks like a hotel function hall. One fall match with rounds, seconds and full Mountevans rules. Long five minute lecture at the start in German from the MC and we are off, good scientific match with plenty of excellent reveals and escapes from both men. Another long lecture after round 1 seems to be about Ted Bentley training Wight. Only downside is some "comedy" from French referee Didier Gapp, doing his best to be the usual miserable SOB. Two yellow cards are dished out to Wright, the first for leaning on Gapp during a somersault (actually I saw this on WWF TV today, from 17th Dec 1988 at the LA Sports Arena, Lanny Poffo, still a babyface, pulled this one during a match Vs Boris Zukhov, the ref just rubbed his shoulder and looked on in askance at Poffo) the second time for accidentally catching Gapp in an aeroplane spin after Didi and Schumann accidentally link hands while criss crossing the ring. Schumann also gets a telling off (but no public warning) for accidentally stamping on Gapp's foot while trying to resist a snapmares. The MC talks to Didi in French. Finish comes with a neat side suplex and cross press by Wright. Then cut to an old bloke with a moustache giving a long speech, probably someone important that I've disrespected there, never mind.

They did that instead of a time code on-screen. It was put on a spare audio channel. Unfortunately modern equipment interprets the original mono audio as one side - and the speaking clock as the other side - of a stereo audio soundtrack. On the plus side it means we know what timeslots the matches were being broadcast which also means we know about the Sunday 5pm timeslot which explains why kids turned up to matches. Regarding the Franglais "le chewinggum" - I'd have to search for other examples but I recall commentators, going back to the 60s matches, saying things like "Il a le finesse, il a la force et il a le chewinggum."

At 5:24, the commentator sounds like he says what sounds like "C'est Le Chewing gum .." What word is that actually?

Heel versus heel with the crowd siding with the loudmouth heel and against the growly heel. A double disqualification and what I expected Adrian Street Vs Jim Breaks the first time I watched. A brawl which breaks down totally until the ref asserts his authority. Nice pair of pinfalls, a high backslide and shoulder press by Graham. Pallo wheeling Graham to the centre of the ring, releasing him then catching him with a folding press (the "BREAK!" gag would make more sense if Graham had Pallo in the hold and Pallo duped him into releasing it) before it all gets out of hand and they are sent back to the dressing room in disgrace. Pallo and referee Don Branch . Two expose writers in one ring.

Sigh. Okay so what is that "chewing gum" word the commentator says Guy Mercier posesses?

And more non INA matches: Go to 7m15secs in of this compilation by Bob Plantin and there is a long clip of Walter Bordes and Claude Roca Vs Anton Tejero and Albert Sanniez: