Vic Hill vs Jack Gacek 1930's wrestling match

[MrFlashBazbo]

Wow!! That w3as Fun!! I'm placing it in My Playlist!!

[xxrobfalconxx]

Pro Wrestling was certainly more different back then, made to look like a competitive sport, rather than a soap opera with pantomime looking guys. A todays audiance just wouldent accept this now.

[Sanguiluna]

Why can't wrestling be like this? No storylines, no over-the-top gimmicks, no hardcore extreme bullshit, no face-heel dichotomy; just two wrestlers putting up a realistic-looking wrestling match. Maybe then wrestling will begin to be respected again, instead of being looked down upon.

[charterbus3002]

@Sanguiluna

Pro wrestling isn't like this anymore because it wouldn't sell to save its life. I would definitely love to see more shootish-style matches, more athleticism, less promos, and all that. But modern day professional wrestling represents a natural evolution from then to now. I think that professional wrestling gets respect except from the people who don't understand it but they don't matter

[Rayla840]

@Sanguiluna Haha. You pretty much just described UFC

[alderopop]

BJJ guys are shitting their pants right now...Yes, it was all there before Helio

[Jackthestripper]

@alderopop that doesnt look anything like BJJ other than the fact that both use submissions. The entire approach and strategy is totally different.

[tuvaluman]

..was this scripted i hope not it was very interesting and entertaining to watch

much much better than wwe

[TheDotComKid84]

@tuvaluman its a work but its still a very scientific wrestling match...its fake but it looks a lot more like a real fight than pro wrestling you see these days

[machinelandtv]

now this is what wrestling is all about, great find.

[PeterTheEvilBastard]

Holy crap! WWE can tie those guys boots. Coolest bout I've seen in a looong time

[NoisyWolfXII]

I'm pretty sure the kimura lock has been a jiu-jutsu or judo move(forget which) LONG before a wrestler started using it.

[KungFuJoeMarino]

@AmericanCombatAssoc Nobody has ever argued that Masahiko Kimura invented the Ude-hishigi ude-garami with which he beat Helio Gracie.

Not only that, you're mistaken on the technique. It's a Top Wrist Lock or a Keylock.  It's more similar to what BJJ guys call an Americana, not a Kimura. However, it's for an entirely different purpose-- here, being utilized to secure the pin fall, rather than being a concession hold.

[irishclubswinger]

@AmericanCombatAssoc LOL!!! God I feel the same way. I was watching a old school western ad they had a wrestling match between a german cowboy and an Apache Indian and there was a double wrist lock, head scissors and even a guard pass and a guy in the room couldn't believe it, he just could not wrap his mind around that this movie was filmed before the Gracies "invented" submission wrestling...lol

[retrogamah]

O_O.... I thought that Riki Choshu invented the Sharpshooter!!!!.... towards the end of the video, there's a leglock ressembling to the scorpion deathlock

[Lfdjake91]

That was a version of the Indian Deathlock.

[steveislove]

Vic vs Jack, an excellent wrestling match

[gugenheidtaker]

This isnt fake IT GOT fake after the late 1950s it was already rigged

[Dan2000]

Yes you always see sharpshooters and monkey flips in real wrestling. "Good amateur move" as Heenan would say.

[mattypooz]

pro wrestling has been a staged performance since waaaayyy before the 50s

[mattypooz]

Even back then it was still a performance. I wonder how the crowd would have reacted then to someone like Mick Foley or Stone Cold

[trendsetter74]

Stone cold would have been arrested and Foley would have been put in an mental assylum, lol.

[humanfly02]

I think wrestling was real up to the 60s or at least most of it was a true. Wrestlers today are show men they would not have a clue of what to do in the ring with guys like this lol

[ninjapenguin1995]

is wrestling entertainment fake yet

[gugenheidtaker]

Not yet

[trendsetter74]

it has always been a work, get off the gas

[mattypooz]

i cant believe people are still asking if wrestling is fake, it's a scripted show ffs just stfu about fake stuff and enjoy the action

[hcjc57]

Now THIS was when wrestling was WRESTLING!

[ruti317]

What a great look into the past! Thanks for your work here.

Is there any way you could repost the Ali Baba = Red Brannigan clip? There are other folks I know who would love seeing it. I mentioned it and then it was gone.

Thanks again!

Ruti

[jsnt]

"Gacek swarming on him" is an interesting phrase, out of context.

[skiminal]

John Cena would kick their asses!

[Sprawl1978]

That would be the day

[mattypooz]

John Cena would cry like a fuckass bitch

[digthatsuckah]

Damn right

[MrROCKNBLUES79]

you got that right. todays wrestlers would be scared to step in the ring with these guys

[BREMENMURRAY]

Great atheletes from the dawn of recorded Professional Wrestling

[flexpin123]

Amazing footage - thanks for transferring this vintage wrestling!