Vic Faulkner

[Dylan Waco]

Discuss Here.

[JerryvonKramer]

I have his match with Breaks from 7/5/77 at ****3/4

 

Anything else I should seek out?

[Jetlag]

Faulkner is one of those ultra-talented, slightly weird brit dudes you just come across. When he's fired up and pissed-off, he's blowaway great. What's interesting about him is that he was also able to do super fast paced, 70s-lightweight-workrate stuff. Even more notable is that unlike many other brit workers he has some tag bouts worth checking out, being in a popular team with his brother Bert Royal. I remember having problems with his more cliche doosie-doo "smiley technical brit comedy" stuff, but he's def. a guy I want to go back and study in detail before I complete my Top 100.

[ohtani's jacket]

Too much of a smart arse.

[Britwresdvds]

Faulkner had great chemistry with Mick McMichael and their bouts from Digbeth (22/3/1980) is one of my favourite matches. One of those matches that had a little bit of everything. Well worth checking out....

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8XsuCgA1E

[Grimmas]

I have seen one match of his in a tag setting and I came out of it hating him and thinking he ruined that match.

[GSR]

If it's the tag match with Bert Royal against the Black Knights (Masambula & Honey Boy Zimba), I thought that was real bad. Structurally all over the place and bereft of any psychology whatsoever.

[ohtani's jacket]

Most British tag wrestling is like that, particularly the stuff from the 70s.

 

Faulkner vs. Saint is a match-up worth checking our. I ranked their '81 bout on my list of great British and European bouts, but was a bit disappointed in their match from the 70s.

[HeadCheese]

Fun wrestler and has likable charisma about it, I am not sure if he makes a top 100 list though. Hoping to check out more

[David Mantell]

On 2/24/2016 at 5:01 PM, GSR said:

Structurally all over the place and bereft of any psychology whatsoever.

On 2/24/2016 at 11:11 PM, ohtani's jacket said:

Most British tag wrestling is like that, particularly the stuff from the 70s.

I'd go beyond what OJ  says and put it forward that structure and pyschology were not native characteristics of Old School Western European wrestling cultures like they were of American/Canadian wrestling and that it is necessary to backpedal on the strict requirement for structure and pschology in order  to appreciate Trad Euro, especially Trad Brit, the way an original fan of these territories would have appreciated them.   That's not to say that such ideas never found their way across the Atlantic, but when they did they were very much an exotic outside influence.

I do love Saint/Faulkner from Oldham 1981.  It's the bout I post to WWEers on Facebook to stretch their perceptions of what wrestling can be.

[David Mantell]

Add structure - the classic structure of an American wrestling match is (1) Initial babyface pop (2) Heel Heat (2) Babyface comeback into face win or heel screwjob win.

However, when you have two blue eye (babyface) teams (or solo opponents) in a clean sportsmanly match, this obviously becomes redundant.