[1951-03-30-Kohler Chicago] Hans Schnabel & Fritz Schnabel vs El Hombre Montana & Ramon Cernades

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

 

[Moonsault Marvin]

Hans and Fritz Schnabel fight El Hombre Montana and Ramon Cernades in a two out of three falls match under Texas tag rules, which is the traditional tag team rules. Russ Davis, however, gets confused and calls the first fall like it's Australian rules, in which both team members have to be pinned for the fall. He invents a disqualification at the end of the first fall.

 

I'm not sure if the competitors have turned since the 1950's matches or if the heel/face dynamic is completely fluid in this era of wrestling. Hans has been bad, good, and now bad again. Montana and Cernades were hated in the match from two months before, but now get polite cheers.

 

Hans continues to show that he has a larger repertoire of moves than the other wrestlers as he uses a body slam on the hammerlocked arm. This injures Cernades's shoulder, which allows the Schnabels to win the final two falls.