Gibbs is the consummate jobber. no matter how green, how uncoordinated or how just plain sucky his opponent is, you leave with the impression that the opponent is 100% pure wrecking machine. just a shame that this McGee SIMPLY COULD NOT WORK.... look up "the absolute drizzling shits" in the dictionary and you find a pic of david flair and this guy.
I remember this guy from way back but through the years could never remember his name and I've not seen a match of his in forever. He seemed promising but perhaps a rare case if there was one of being at the right place and wrong place at the same time in wrestling. Thanks for posting this match. Good memories.
I find it pretty damned funny that this guy was sooo bad, they went with Warrior instead. Could anyone imagine...Champion vs. Champion Title for Title Wrestlemania VI Hulk Hogan vs. Canada's Favorite Son Tom Magee?
@peterp21 he had no enthusiasm in his moves. he telegraphic everything. he went through the motions and didnt sell even his moves. plus he is standing sooo tall i think he has to take a shit. maybe if they had trained him more he would have been better. but dude this was bad
You know, the story is that Magee totally stunk in the ring after that match where Bret Hart made him look good, but I don't see it. Magee looked really good in the ring here, especially considering this was 1987. I'm sure he was green and who knows what his charisma or mic skills would have been, but put aside the story everyone knows (and since it's on the internet, accepted as the truth) and were watching this in '87, you would have been impressed.
Only guy stronger then Magee ever to enter Pro Wrestling was Bill Kazmier after Magee would be Mark Henry Ken Patera and Nathan Jones because they are the only ones ever brave enough to enter Professional Strongman Circuits. If the Big Show or Goldberg ever had the guts to enter one they'd be up there with them.
@tubaSHANK Yeah but I bet none of those men can do back flips and shooting star flips landing on the feet like Magee can. He was far ahead of the game in only this one match against a jobber, ironically.
Magee is the real Ultimate Warrior has climbed ever mountain Kayaked 20 miles 1180lb deadlift 955lb squat 575lb raw bench and all for real like I said before the closest thing to Samson this world will ever see. Watch the 1985 Worlds Strongest Man on here you'll respect this man and how hard he works!
Awesome flexibility and agility there. Personally I was expecting something like the Doug Furnas/Masato Tanaka match in ECW the way folks talked about Magee. With a little more time and experience he wouldn't have been bad.
Great Athlete; one of the strongest men in the world at the time-but wrestling skill is wrestling skill.
By the way though, 90% of the male marks on YT think Kelly Kelly beating Beth Phoenix is no big thing but they pontificate about how some guy "can't work".
please i want more matches for tom magee please!!!!!!!!!! if anyone has any match please send it to me he has amatch against bret hart i want this match and against iron mike sharpe
i love tom magee and i think he is one of the strongest men in the world and in the history of wrestling . he is stronger than john cena bobby lashley rob terry bill goldberg and dave batista
Magee went on to compete in "World's Strongest Man" and though normally one of the smallest competitors he won many individual events and is universally recognized as pound-for-pound one of the strongest men to have ever lived...it's truly a shame that the pathetic arrogant joke that is Vince McMahon wasted this guy as he has countless others over the years...
Weird that horrible workers like khali and giant Gonzales can get time to never get better but not the Mega man? I mean if he would have really laid them in he would've been the Shit yell
Like the powerhouse before him, Arcidi, though from this vid, looks to have more skills than Arcidi, super stiff and no charisma whatsoever.....almost like he's preforming moves in slo mo, like he really has to think about them.....didn't have a marketing/ gimic type name either.......
its a shame he was stiff.proves that wrestling is more than it appears.different kind of skills needed.i saw the best of athletes fail as wrestlers.although it is a show,there are still many types of skills needed.magee didnt have the tools.powerful and agile,just couldnt get over
Tom Magee is one of if not THE best Strongmen Canada has ever produced. A world champion powerlifter and placed 2nd at the Worlds Strongest Man behind Bill Kazmier and almost beat him. Bret Hart can't hold a candle to this mans athletic credentials nor can any but a few men who have wrestled in the WWF/WWE
@ThePGeraFuckingSucks ...I think Vince really fucked up with this guy. Yeah, Magee was terrible, but how was he any worse than UWarrior or Luger? This guy at least was an unbelievable athlete. They could have molded him into something great if they would have worked with him and trained him. But Vince was super arrogant at the time, given how big the WWF was, and probably figured Magee wasnt worth the hassle or effortt. I swear, he probably regrets that now. He would made bank off this guy.
Funny how they're talking about The Hitman during this match when most people watching this video now are only here because of Magee's mention in Hart's book.
Magee had all the tools, but he just couldn't get his head around the concept of working a match. A shame, if he had, he'd have been huge- even as raw as he was here he's already more entertaining than the Warrior.
@Germany1111 I don't get this "couldn't get his head around the concept of working a match" comment. You then note that he was raw yet entertaining. Magee wrestled like 3 televised matches in WWF, the dude didn't have any time to not have an idea on working a match. Your comment's a total non sequitur.
Heard this guy's name, but this is the first I see of him. He would have made a better Warrior, but who knows where we'd be today if he was? Hell of a gymnast, anyway! Would have been cool to see him wrestle The Blue Blazer.
@JeffTheFutureJaros Vince thought Magee was the next Hulk Hogan (apparently based on one good match where Bret Hart carried the load), but then Hellwig came along and Poor Mr Magee went south.
@MrWrestlingMan LOL, So where's the match with Bret Hart at, you have that one? I'd love to see Bret carry the match for ol' Small Dick, Tom Magee, LOL, How bad is it to be replaced by Jim Hellwig? LOL
@MrWrestlingMan it goes to show that bret hart can make this jobber look good the best thing tom did was in entrance and thats where it stops besides packing his bags n going home lol
Tom Magee looks a little bit like Kerry Von Erich.
JasonL77 1 week ago
Gibbs is the consummate jobber. no matter how green, how uncoordinated or how just plain sucky his opponent is, you leave with the impression that the opponent is 100% pure wrecking machine. just a shame that this McGee SIMPLY COULD NOT WORK.... look up "the absolute drizzling shits" in the dictionary and you find a pic of david flair and this guy.
bladestormviking 3 weeks ago
Terry Gibbs is the shit!!!! He worked that eye gouge perfectly! Then some deadly shots to the adams apple! ....
spagisis 4 weeks ago
I remember this guy from way back but through the years could never remember his name and I've not seen a match of his in forever. He seemed promising but perhaps a rare case if there was one of being at the right place and wrong place at the same time in wrestling. Thanks for posting this match. Good memories.
MainEventMafia4Life 4 weeks ago
Terry Gibbs !!!
TerryGibbsWF 1 month ago
magee has chicken legs
hollywood21639 1 month ago
I find it pretty damned funny that this guy was sooo bad, they went with Warrior instead. Could anyone imagine...Champion vs. Champion Title for Title Wrestlemania VI Hulk Hogan vs. Canada's Favorite Son Tom Magee?
GrandFunker 1 month ago
Jimmy Hart says all you need to know about Tom Magee at 1:32
ijdgaf323 1 month ago
@peterp21 he had no enthusiasm in his moves. he telegraphic everything. he went through the motions and didnt sell even his moves. plus he is standing sooo tall i think he has to take a shit. maybe if they had trained him more he would have been better. but dude this was bad
Reed1788 1 month ago
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bret hart vs broom
vince, pointing at the broom, "we found our new champion!!!!!!"
sayanroy36 1 month ago
You know, the story is that Magee totally stunk in the ring after that match where Bret Hart made him look good, but I don't see it. Magee looked really good in the ring here, especially considering this was 1987. I'm sure he was green and who knows what his charisma or mic skills would have been, but put aside the story everyone knows (and since it's on the internet, accepted as the truth) and were watching this in '87, you would have been impressed.
peterp21 1 month ago
I'm one of Magee's biggest fans
tubaSHANK 3 months ago
Tom Magee was in the movie Stone Cold with Bosworth
falice88 3 months ago
5:48
MideonGodwinn 4 months ago
gorrila and hart's commentary puts the current bums in wwe to shame.
booker is funny sometimes but cole and grisham are godawful
DeadIslandTrailers 4 months ago
Look! It's another Von Erich! XD
TuxedoRay 5 months ago
Was that Lee Marshall doing the ring announcing? He kinda looked like Gary Hart with hair.
CactusZack 5 months ago
@CactusZack No I dont think that was him his voice is more distinguishable like it was at wm2. :)
TuxedoRay 5 months ago
That finisher submission rwas pure hotness!
wresslepecs 5 months ago
Better than Warrior in ring wise at least
dgtdsgn 6 months ago
Better than Warrior
dgtdsgn 6 months ago
Only thing I could say about Tom Magee is..., DAMN! :D
Lovelygal71 6 months ago
Only guy stronger then Magee ever to enter Pro Wrestling was Bill Kazmier after Magee would be Mark Henry Ken Patera and Nathan Jones because they are the only ones ever brave enough to enter Professional Strongman Circuits. If the Big Show or Goldberg ever had the guts to enter one they'd be up there with them.
tubaSHANK 6 months ago
@tubaSHANK Yeah but I bet none of those men can do back flips and shooting star flips landing on the feet like Magee can. He was far ahead of the game in only this one match against a jobber, ironically.
Mindstamina 3 months ago 2
Thanks for posting...interesting to imagine what might have been...
ChristmasMagic 6 months ago
tom samson magee :
deadlift 1180 lbs
squat 1066 lbs
bench press 600 lbs
maxthehulk 6 months ago
Magee is the real Ultimate Warrior has climbed ever mountain Kayaked 20 miles 1180lb deadlift 955lb squat 575lb raw bench and all for real like I said before the closest thing to Samson this world will ever see. Watch the 1985 Worlds Strongest Man on here you'll respect this man and how hard he works!
tubaSHANK 6 months ago
Was that sweater a birthday present from Grandma Magee?
Mateo11 6 months ago
Tom Magee > John Cena
WhipDarling 6 months ago
@WhipDarling you are soooo right tom magee can eat and destroy john cena and stronger than john cena
maxthehulk 6 months ago
Bad at Selling but ok in the ring.
Kidanimation09 6 months ago in playlist tom magee
this guy should of been the next big thing to replace hogan
QCFrankC7 6 months ago
Kinda sorta looks like Kerry Von Erich, minus charisma
chrisz31974 6 months ago
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stickypool 6 months ago
Awesome flexibility and agility there. Personally I was expecting something like the Doug Furnas/Masato Tanaka match in ECW the way folks talked about Magee. With a little more time and experience he wouldn't have been bad.
DavidFullam 6 months ago
Great Athlete; one of the strongest men in the world at the time-but wrestling skill is wrestling skill.
By the way though, 90% of the male marks on YT think Kelly Kelly beating Beth Phoenix is no big thing but they pontificate about how some guy "can't work".
Right.
RPenta 6 months ago
Good lord he was shit. The 360 was cool though for a big guy.
jethyy 6 months ago
the 360 in the air was good, but the forward roll sold it for me...
666rocko 6 months ago
Tom Magee was the Next Big Thing! Whatever happened to him?
TheWCWite 6 months ago
i want more matches of tom magee in wwf
maxthehulk 7 months ago
please i want more matches for tom magee please!!!!!!!!!! if anyone has any match please send it to me he has amatch against bret hart i want this match and against iron mike sharpe
maxthehulk 7 months ago
i love tom magee and i think he is one of the strongest men in the world and in the history of wrestling . he is stronger than john cena bobby lashley rob terry bill goldberg and dave batista
maxthehulk 7 months ago
Should've called Magee Samson because that's who he really is!
tubaSHANK 8 months ago
Magee wasn't the best wrestler, but at least the guy was athletic and had a good look.
1SabrinaK 8 months ago
Whoa! Had the upper body like Kerry Von Erich...anybody know his stats?
mxylpx 9 months ago
He reminds me quite a bit of American Gladiator Malibu, who briefly attempted pro wrestling around 1990 ... great physique but horrible in the ring.
y2flu 9 months ago
I totally agree with the comments from indcore about Vince McMahon.
bigkeoni 9 months ago
Magee went on to compete in "World's Strongest Man" and though normally one of the smallest competitors he won many individual events and is universally recognized as pound-for-pound one of the strongest men to have ever lived...it's truly a shame that the pathetic arrogant joke that is Vince McMahon wasted this guy as he has countless others over the years...
indcore 10 months ago
He just plain sucks
jaracan316 10 months ago
Weird that horrible workers like khali and giant Gonzales can get time to never get better but not the Mega man? I mean if he would have really laid them in he would've been the Shit yell
BOX5 10 months ago
If he was such an asset at the time, why didn't the opposition snap him up?
MPro93 1 year ago
Should've called Magee The Man!!!
tubaSHANK 1 year ago
Like the powerhouse before him, Arcidi, though from this vid, looks to have more skills than Arcidi, super stiff and no charisma whatsoever.....almost like he's preforming moves in slo mo, like he really has to think about them.....didn't have a marketing/ gimic type name either.......
2507559168 1 year ago
its a shame he was stiff.proves that wrestling is more than it appears.different kind of skills needed.i saw the best of athletes fail as wrestlers.although it is a show,there are still many types of skills needed.magee didnt have the tools.powerful and agile,just couldnt get over
sampson1959 1 year ago
Fantastic upper body on Magee...where is he now?
mxylpx 1 year ago
Tom "Mullet" Magee
ThePGeraFuckingSucks 1 year ago
Tom Magee is one of if not THE best Strongmen Canada has ever produced. A world champion powerlifter and placed 2nd at the Worlds Strongest Man behind Bill Kazmier and almost beat him. Bret Hart can't hold a candle to this mans athletic credentials nor can any but a few men who have wrestled in the WWF/WWE
AdrianKimmett1 1 year ago
@AdrianKimmett1 too bad he couldn't "work"
ThePGeraFuckingSucks 1 year ago
@ThePGeraFuckingSucks ...I think Vince really fucked up with this guy. Yeah, Magee was terrible, but how was he any worse than UWarrior or Luger? This guy at least was an unbelievable athlete. They could have molded him into something great if they would have worked with him and trained him. But Vince was super arrogant at the time, given how big the WWF was, and probably figured Magee wasnt worth the hassle or effortt. I swear, he probably regrets that now. He would made bank off this guy.
flipgood89 1 year ago
He wrestled as Joe McKanzie here in Europe. I put some vids of him on youtube.
sergje1 1 year ago
Funny how they're talking about The Hitman during this match when most people watching this video now are only here because of Magee's mention in Hart's book.
Lol.
hookhoax 1 year ago 2
Tom Magee???? HAHAHA
jamilioestevez 1 year ago
Magee had all the tools, but he just couldn't get his head around the concept of working a match. A shame, if he had, he'd have been huge- even as raw as he was here he's already more entertaining than the Warrior.
Germany1111 1 year ago
@Germany1111 I don't get this "couldn't get his head around the concept of working a match" comment. You then note that he was raw yet entertaining. Magee wrestled like 3 televised matches in WWF, the dude didn't have any time to not have an idea on working a match. Your comment's a total non sequitur.
peterp21 1 month ago
Heard this guy's name, but this is the first I see of him. He would have made a better Warrior, but who knows where we'd be today if he was? Hell of a gymnast, anyway! Would have been cool to see him wrestle The Blue Blazer.
Inediblehulk 1 year ago
awesome body, wow, but not a good actor
musclewrestler 1 year ago
Nice F'n Backflip. LOL
JeffTheFutureJaros 1 year ago
Who in the Hell is Tom Magee? LOL
JeffTheFutureJaros 1 year ago
@JeffTheFutureJaros Vince thought Magee was the next Hulk Hogan (apparently based on one good match where Bret Hart carried the load), but then Hellwig came along and Poor Mr Magee went south.
MrWrestlingMan 1 year ago 2
@MrWrestlingMan LOL, So where's the match with Bret Hart at, you have that one? I'd love to see Bret carry the match for ol' Small Dick, Tom Magee, LOL, How bad is it to be replaced by Jim Hellwig? LOL
JeffTheFutureJaros 1 year ago
@MrWrestlingMan Well he did two other matches with two other guys and he was one of the worst workers ever
TheRagev3 6 months ago in playlist tom magee
@MrWrestlingMan it goes to show that bret hart can make this jobber look good the best thing tom did was in entrance and thats where it stops besides packing his bags n going home lol
ghw1985 2 weeks ago
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JeffTheFutureJaros 1 year ago