The Pioneer Era of Wrestling

[Hero7850]

So, Dean Malenko stole his nickname "The Man of 1,000 Holds" from Earl Caddoch.

[Ariosof]

and how about the most legendary Ivan Poddubny?????!!!!! 

[Casper135177]

John Pesek is My Great great great great grandfather. and i'm i thinking of doing wrestling

[80swrestling]

@Casper135177 Cool,a celebrity commented on my video,lol.

[AmericanCombatAssoc]

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[Hero7850]

i wonder what legends of professional wrestling like frank gotch would think of the vurlid pro wrestling today

[80swrestling]

@Hero7850 They would think "Damn!Those guys make a hell of a lot more money than I did!" LOL

[DavidOAnal]

@80swrestling lmao hell yeah and was wrestling real back then????

[80swrestling]

@DavidOAnal Yes.Back then they used real athletes and the matches werent always pretermined.

[harley55100]

If some of these early pro wrestlers were in his prime today and takes on any of today's superstars, he might easily win the match, because wrestlers like Ed "Strangler" Lewis, Stanislaus Zybysko,... took their craft seriously. They really knew how to maim and cripple their opponents. They were the real deal..

There were no gimmicks back then. The early wrestlers didn't come to the ring dressed in colorful costumes. They just put on trunks and, maybe, a robe or a towel around their necks.

[80swrestling]

@harley55100 Very true.Btw,You didn't have to remove your other comments.

[musicalrich1]

Nice video! Wish you had attempted to keep them in chronological order. But good work, nonetheless.  I am writing a series of articles on pro wrestling, covering the eras from 1898-present.

[80swrestling]

@musicalrich1 Original plane was to put then in alphabetical order,but I got lazy.

[eslubin]

Nice job on this production but why did you decide to start in 1898? Evan Lewis was all but retire by then except for a disastrous comeback attempt against the Terrible Turk. & why no Muldoon?



[80swrestling]

@eslubin Thank you.I started in 98 because thats when the Pioneer Era started (according to some sources).Muldoon is in there.

[TheVidNerd]

Very nice choice of music.

[80swrestling]

@TheVidNerd Thank you.I wanted another,but couldn't think of the name.It went "Na Na,Da da da.Dot dot da dot,dot dot da dot,nananananananaNA! Do you know the name?

[darkkevinloquendo]

´´el chiclayano´´was one of the first venezuelan wrestlers of the history,he is my hero

[theamericangrappler]

I like this video.

[80swrestling]

@theamericangrappler Thanks :D

[TheMarv800]

awesome video man love it.

[80swrestling]

@TheMarv800 Hey,thank you very much :)

[TheMarv800]

@80swrestling your welcome.