El Monstro vs Valenzuela.mpg

1981 L.A wrestling

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Sports

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• El
• Monstro
• vs
• Valenzuela

[jellybeans178]

Yep, This was the time wrestling was going on the back burner in L.A

[MsLuckyPierre]

THANK YOU Jelly Beans for posting this gem! Actually, this was mid 1981... The Monster turned babyface around October. I saw The Monster live many times, and have seen no video footage to look back fondly on! TOO MUCH! I've told so many friends about The Monster, and everybody wanted to see that the gimmick really happened!

[dewilder11]

I didn't know this stuff existed before Russo

[DBADD]

Any video el monster vs Andre ?

[DBADD]

Thank you, this is classic!! I've been waiting to see the Monster in action since 1983.

[MrCarl220]

@chemochinga He played a inmate in the movie 'Losin' It'

[BHoz77]

The Monster vs the ECW Zombie would have been a match for the ages.

[chemochinga]

That's Cornelio "TONY" Hernandez from Phoenix, Arizona.

[elc1960]

@BaronTurco People seem to have very little good to say about Mike LeBell, but they pretty much universally praise Mike's brother Gene, saying that he was a "give you the shirt off his back" type of guy. I know Gene was good friends with George Reeves, and was even one of Reeves' pallbearers back in '59. He was in many movies and TV shows. (I think he was the guy who wrestled Herman Munster in that episode of "The Munsters" - was that where they got the idea for this gimmick?)

[elc1960]

This was a sad ending for the NWA Hollywood promotion. They went from The Sheik and Freddie Blassie tearing each other up and packing the place to the rafters, to a guy in a Frankenstein mask moving like his feet were anchored in concrete. This, boys and girls, is what they mean when they say "throwing something at the wall to see if it sticks". Holy shitballs, this was bad!

[coconutsavage]

@BaronTurco Yeah, Lars had a guy at ringside in a white lab coat with a clipboard/computer who was presented as Dr. Manfred Crystal. It was an AWFUL gimmick and I remember it ended quickly. The death throes of a once great franchise.

[BaronTurco]

@excelsior331 I've heard that as well, but don't know for sure if it's true. When I got to L.A. they were already on KMEX (in Spanish) only. I remember Sal Lothario being El Monstro at the end and hating doing it. I'm sure Hernandez wasn't crazy about it either. At one point they brought in Lars Anderson as the "Bionic Wrestler, who supposedly had a bionic arm that he would use illegally. Lars hated the gimmick and they low payoffs so much that he left the territory after a couple of weeks.