[1952-01-25-Kohler Chicago] Chest Bernard vs Tarzan White

[Loss]

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[Moonsault Marvin]

Chest Bernard takes on Tarzan White in a one fall match. Chest is the heel and refuses the handshake. He has a large barrel chest and walks around the ring puffing it out. Tarzan is another one of the '50s wrestlers covered with back hair. Tarzan starts it out by repeatedly pressing his head against Chest's jaw while he pulled down on Chest's head. This led to the crowd laughing and Chest becoming angry. Chest throws a wild punch but misses. He takes him down to the mat to work a wristlock. Tarzan is able to bridge out, so Chest tries some hair pulling but gets caught.

 

Chest is able to trap him in the corner and starts running into him. Tarzan moves and Chest takes a nice bump over the ropes. Chest tries a headlock, but Tarzan is able to lift him and dump him. Chest goes back to the headlocks and repeatedly won't make clean breaks when Tarzan gets to the ropes. Tarzan takes his turn working the headlock, in which Chest pulls on the trunks to try to escape. Chest takes back control and continues to pull the trunks and hair to maintain his advantage.

 

Tarzan can't take it anymore, so he starts hair pulling and throwing punches. After a snapmare, Tarzan begins to bounce off the ropes to deliver shoulder tackles to the gut. He gets some extreme rope bend. Tarzan next works a toehold, which Chest is able to counter with a body scissors. Tarzan is able to bearhug Chest off the mat into a standing bearhug, which was an impressive display of strength. Chest gets out and rams him into the turnbuckle. After some lockups, they take turns ramming their shoulder into the stomach while the other guy is against the turnbuckle. Chest puts him a hold that is sort of a cobra clutch variation with the arm on the wrong side. He then rams the back of Tarzan's head into the turnbuckle.

 

Tarzan takes back control with a flurry of snapmares. He returns to his rope bouncing shoulder tackles. The last one knocks Chest up and over, but Tarzan flies out of the ring. After escaping the countout, Tarzan tries for a body slam, but he collapses under the weight of Chest, giving Chest the three count and victory.

 

This was a fun match with the bearhug spot and Tarzan's rope bouncing shoulder blocks. Chest kept the crowd involved with his constant cheating.