The Crusher cuts up Mad Dog Vachon

January 27 1971, AWA All Star Wrestling Crusher Lisowski saves Édouard Carpentier from Maurice "Mad Dog" Vachon and Paul "The Butcher" Vachon and puts the dog in the hospital

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[brian7301975]

At 2:11 that was a young Blackjack Mulligan holding back da crusher. The one wearing the pink like shirt.

[DotDotkins]

Sure enough, Bob Windham was trained by Verne and he started out there as a jobber under the name Jack Mulligan.

[DavidFullam]

That was a serious, sick blade job.

[DotDotkins]

It was a blade job that went wrong, while Mad Dog was on the floor blading the Crusher kicked him and the blade cut much deeper than it should of.

[lovesheidi]

@DotDotkins yeah but it sure did make it look good though..although i hope it really didn't injure mad dog to much

[DotDotkins]

@lovesheidi Mad Dog lost a lot of blood and had to be rushed to the hospital.

[classicNHLfights]

watching this reaffirms my belief on what a piece of crap the W.W.E. is... everybody looks the same... everybody is on steriods...nobody has any charisma... just crap a bunch of boring crap, thank god for old classic clips like this...thanks dude

[TheMidnightBell07]

Hey, I think he had enough pressure on it lol.

[KFAIRocks]

I was the floor director for WTCN TV that day. When I saw Vachon come up from under the ring the blood was gushing out in spurts. I knew immediately that this was an accident. I hollered into my headset "This is SERIOUS, I'm calling 911!" I rushed out into the hall, grabbed the phone and started calling when Officer O'Brian yanked the phone out of my hand and hung it up. (He was Vern's rent-a-cop, always on duty.) He threw a coat around Vachon since it was below zero and raced him out the door.

[peluchediaz22]

bullshit



[frythedeliveryguy]

Did anyone else see the ghost of Mean Gene at the beginning?

[MrNeal201]

more old awa and wwa living in il in the early 70es is all we had txs 4 post

[McRat1968]

I later saw Reggie Lisowski ("The Crusher") and Vachon as a tag-team against John Minton ("Big John Studd") and Jerry Blackwell in one of my favorite tag matches: the one where Blackwell landed wrong off the ropes and put Vachon on the shelf for a few years.

I doubt that Blackwell was truly 472 pounds, as he was billed by the announcers; but he was definitely big enough to squash someone to death the way he used to splash. ...Add a second-rope height to that mix and you've got troubles.

[Thorpe741]

Just keep pressing 7! and listen to the Crusher!!7

[MrStevestain]

I lived in the Chicago area for a year and a half - in the early 70's. Dick the Bruiser & The Crusher were awesome, as was Nick Bockwinkel. Watching Chicago-area wrestling made watching wrestling in other areas impossible - it was too boring in comparison. I stopped watching wrestling for decades. I'm glad to see that it wasn't just my memory that it was crazed & exciting.

[mjtf1113]

I am from Chester, Pa. which is a suburb of Philadelphia. I used to attend the matches at the ARENA where I saw the likes of Bruno Sammartino, Killer Kowalski, Professor Tanaka, all of them in the late 60s and early 70s. I only knew of the likes of Dick the Bruiser, The Crusher and all the others in the AWA by reading about them in the wrestling magazines. Used to watch, for a while, wrestling from Florida..........great stuff........it was "REAL" back then !!!!

[Srd1126]

2:08 or so listen to the announcer say "HEY" off the mic, they realized the blade job went bad, I don't think Crusher knew something was wrong