2/3 Falls NWA Championship: Jack Brisco (c) vs. Giant Baba 3

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[VolumedMusicMan]

Ccie, that was a great story! Brisco couldn't fool the old master Sam Munchnik. Jack took his hard earned $ with him back to Florida. Dory Jr pleaded with Jack to pay Sam the extra $. Brisco refused.

[jrod42]

jack  brisco was one great wrestler...giant baba a legend, great match!!!

[styx4ever1963]

Thanks for posting this classic match!

[Sargebri]

Brisco did catch some heat for this. The switch wasn't approved by the NWA board. It was only done to give Baba the title just for AJPW's tour .

[styx4ever1963]

Any footage of Brisco regaining title

[styx4ever1963]

Thanks for the post this match was amazing!

[melbz1266]

bricoe was one of the best technical men to ever hold the title very few were as good as jack.

[thunderbare]

was that not Dick the Destroyer Beyer in Baba corner loved how they just pulled him over to the corner and is it just me or did Baba Go to the Barron Von Rashchke body building school

[Reg197844]

This match was the first in a trend where American world champs would job their titles to the Japanese stars in Japan. Brisco and Race both dropped and regained (before returning home) their NWA titles to Baba. Backlund lost and regained the WWF belt to Inoki in a controversial mess. Bockwinkel and Zbzysko lost the AWA title to Tsuruta and Mr. Saito respectively.

[ccie12933]

Brisco's book tells a great story about how Terry Funk was actually the "middleman" in arranging the title change and the payoff.

[VolumedMusicMan]

That's was a great story! Sam M. found out what the big payoff was in Japan. Brisco refused to kickback the extra $ owed to Sam.

[songoku350]

Also in modern terms, Homicide losing the ROH title to Takeshi Morishima which gave him credibility and turned him into a main eventer in Japan

[Jessman46205]

Say what you want about world's titles and such. Say you get into wrestling for the money and entertainment. However, in my opinion, a true Professional Wrestler if he can say he was the NWA World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion, I'd say his career would be vindicated.

[mcfrs]

Totally agree. The NWA title was king back in the day. If the NWA board of directors wanted you to be the champ, you have made it. They weren't putting that belt around any wrestlers waist. Sam Mutchnik(spelling) didn't play any games when it came to that. You wrestled 6 to 7 nights a week. Most of the time matches lasted an hour. When was the last time you saw a wrestling match last that long?

[MrWrestlingFan]

I guess I can say Tyler/McGuinness HOUR DRAW but that was only 48 min :|

[Sargebri]

@mcfrs Everything today is geared to the short attention spans of the 18 to 35 demographic that watches wrestling. In fact, the only promotion that up until recently still had them on a regular basis was ROH. You will never see WWE or TNA have 1 hour Broadways anymore.

[guysolbgmn]

Thanks for posting this amazing clip of wrestling history.

[thebigandgreat1]

I'm not the biggest Baba fan but I will admit even though he looked like a malnourished Frankenstein he did hold his own in this great performance with the legendary Jack Brisco. Baba was a great promoter and IMO was that better then an overall worker. Baba depending on the opponents he could have great matches.

[MrWrestlingFan]

He was an amazing promoter and although not the best wrestler I always can get hooked when I'm watching him in the ring. Even in his latest matches but the crowd reaction really helped with that :p

[Capncrunch1]

I thought the crowd was pretty great. Every time Baba scored some offense or kicked out, they would scream. That made the atmosphere of the match awesome.

[samsdaddy0525]

It has been said of Ric Flair that he could wrestle a broomstick and make it look good. Well, it was first said about Jack Brisco and with good reason.

[pronkb000]

If you're implying that '70s Baba was a "broomstick"...no. He wasn't. He was at one time a tremendous worker even if he had 8-inch biceps.

[MrWrestlingFan]

he was a tremendous worker till death :p

HELL HE'S A TREMENDOUS WORKER IN HIS GRAVE.

[samsdaddy0525]

No, that was not what I was implying. I literally meant Jack could go into the ring with a broom and make the broom look good. That is how great a worker Brisco was. And, yes Baba in his prime was a very good worker and very over in Japan.

[Reg197844]

Thanks for the post! Can't believe how dead the crowd was....even for a Japan. Was that Pat O'Connor in Brisco's corner?

[MrWrestlingFan]

I didn't even realize anybody else because The Destroyer was being so awesome.

I wouldn't exactly say the Crowd was dead. Back then it was taken pretty seriously and everyone would dress up just to go to a wrestling event, and making noise could be considered disrespect.

If you ever want anything else with Baba let me know. The guy has always been a huge favorite of mine.

[Reg197844]

Do you have the rematch a week later when Brisco won the belt back?  Or any of Baba's title changes with Harley Race?