Mr. Fuji & Prof. Tanaka VS Haystacks Calhoun & Tony Garea 07.23.1973 MSG

From Madison Square Garden, 1973.

Tag Team Champions Haystacks Calhoun & Tony Garea defend the titles against Mr. Fuji & Prof. Toru Tanaka in a classic 2 out of 3 falls match.

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• haystacks
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• tony
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[Lfdjake91]

I think this is the oldest WWWF match I have ever seen.

Haystacks Calhoun was wrestling's big traveling draw until Andre the Giant came along a few years later.

[dontchadaremissit]

@Lfdjake91 I posted another video, Gorilla Monsoon & Pedro Morales vs The Mongols. The match is from 1970, even older than this one.

[generationll]

This was basically a 2 against 1 match because Tony Garea spent just over 8 minutes inthe ring alone by himself & Haystacks Calhoun was in there for less ten 2 minutes.

[brnleague99]

@12valvepower1 The Japanese were monsters during WW2. They did despicable things to civilians.

[12valvepower1]

the message was clear in the 40s. FUCK JAPAN

[12valvepower1]

@brnleague99 the poor korean girls, they got treated like whores by the ugly japanese.. and killed korean children. i do know alot about the japanese atrocities in ww2. the japanese got what was deserved by them.. if you ask me. 

[12valvepower1]

haystacks calhoun making out with a woman. how would that work really. him on bottom i reckon. he would flatten her like a damn flapjack. like a car running over your foot.

[12valvepower1]

yokozuna vs haystacks

[brnleague99]

@12valvepower1 That's because Japan treated Korea like crap every chance it got.

[mkl62]

Along with Edge and The Four Horsemen, I hope that Haystacks Calhoun makes it into the WWE HAll of Fame one day.

[12valvepower1]

japan and korea dont like each other 

[12valvepower1]

that old prune witch.. is now dead and everyoen drives japanese cars made in china.

[PatrioticPirate]

GrandMomma was on their asses, (:48) wasn't she?

[generationll]

nice move by calhoun at 1003 to help garea out

[Inediblehulk]

9:15 Eat your heart out, Killer Bees! That was a sweet switcheroo. How they did it is just one of those Oriental mysteries, like mist or neckbreaking suplexes.

[Inediblehulk]

I would love to see Fuji vs Garea at Wrestlemania 28. They may be a tad old, but look at how Steamboat surprised us at Wrestlemania 25! It would beat watching Mae Young and Sgt. Slaughter dance with a celebrity I don't know while Michael Cole fake laughs.

[5Kspecialist]

I remember going into a restaurant in 1975 and finding no salt shaker on the table. The waitress said that Mr. Fuji was responsible for a worldwide salt shortage.

[VideoNoob122]

@dontchadaremissit Damn, post the match: Giant Calhoun vs. Happy Humphrey.

[winifredatwell]

Calhoun was well known as being a "big" draw, but as for wrestling - forget it. A poor worker who couldn't sustain singles bouts and had to be sold by others.

[yockinnottou]

haystacks is absolutely horrible. he doesn't even wrestle.

[conradsdad]

Back when stereotypes like the sneaky Jap meant something! Mr. Fuji with that "sneaky grin" on his face.

[RPenta]

I really liked Tony Garea when he was wrestling; but not when he became one of Don Vinnie's Stable of Stooges.

[bookmdano]

that old lady is the BEST

[elc1960]

@LT9856 Very true. From what I've heard, the Pacific Northwest (Don Owen's promotion) also handled things that way in the '70s, with babyfaces vs heels only.