I've noticed here on youtube that most of the vintage matches from the 50s and 60s are either footage of Japanese wrestling, or American wrestling subtitled and voiced over by Japanese commentators. I think it says something about how much respect the _puroresu_ world has for wrestling as a whole, where they do an even better job at preserving vintage American wrestling than actual American wrestling promotions (except WWE with their massive video archive) do.

John Putzier the far east are always advanced in technology lol

Not in the summer of 1945.

This can almost pass as a late 70's match. The quality is very impressive.

Ivan

Very cool, growing up in an Italian home he was a huge hero to us all.

MASTERPIECE ! WE ARE ALL HUMANS WE ARE ALL LEGENDS !! ITS INSANE TO SEE HOW TUFF THESE GUY WAS AT THAT YEAR

Bruno is so heartfull man as he wrote you back that he shiped a Lincohn continental to Baba when he had noticed in Japan tour that Baba hadn't big car to fully pack him.

Sammartino was in greatest sports legend, the interviewer was the late great Tom terrific

That is incredible

Lucky

Bro you're really lucky!

Baba used to go a lot to hawaii

@@jadoc3767 Don't know if you're from Hawaii, but we had quite the pro-wrestling scene back in the day on Friday nights. And, yes, international talent like Baba and Andre the Giant would regular square off, and locals like Don Muraco, Mr. Fuji, Professor Tanaka, and Ricky Steamboat were well established in the islands before I started seeing them on mainland TV. Unfortunately, as a Big Island boy I never got to see the matches live in Honolulu, but still, those were good times.

That is incredible

Also the most trustworthy promoter of all time.

Thanks for your comment, of course I know Kayfabe, but I just like to live in a world of fantasy and still, they are great athletes.

@@fr8466 Kayfabe or not, they ARE great athletes.

When you move in slow motion doing rest moves its a lot easier to last an hour.

@@thegoughandbordenfamily8234rest holds oh you mean actual wrestling holds

​@@SlaytonRiderIt was both tbf

Because he was paid too WTF if not be the same ole Punch Kick Stomp . kick Punch Kick ....

@@CP-kb1du so you think he was paid extra to rndure he didnt just "punch and stomp"? That is hardly likely..

you must watch too many wwe match. sometimes watch your own local promotion.

baba always took care of those people who worked for them even those who betrayed him. he understood them and thought that was just business evolving. some even came back to his fold and he still accepted them and pushed them according to their status. he's the reverse of antonio inoki and misawa don't get me wrong i still respect those two but in terms of personal respect and being a true gentleman giant baba had them beat by leagues only samartino is the closest guy who i can think of in terms of doing business but still staying classy and keeping their word. you could add terry funk and hansen to the list. those guys are men of their word and always keep their promises even if they need to sacrifice a big pay check.

He was a classic mesomorph

MrMferg240 IT SHOWS IT CAN BE DONE.

But short for a wrestler. Baba was real skinny, but held his own.

But his muscles didn't carry the day.

well he weight trained from 14-23 so that was at least 9 years for him to get that big

昔は一挙手一投足いちいちのろいよね

I think that record belongs to Strangler Lewis.

プロレスはアングルだから通算勝利数の記録をカウントしてもねえ(苦笑)

If you say so.

No problem man :) I'm glad there still are people who appreciate this kind of wrestling.

***** great match to have. Bruno with the second (or was it 3d?) W(W)W(F)E belt ever! and in color! Only wish the commentary was in English. I doubt WWE will ever put this match on the Bruno dvd.

well they should..only because the stuff they have been putting out in these few years & even in this day & age are over played. what i mean is that the wwe has always been repeating their video/dvd/films constantly without putting new archives that are hidden away in the deeps of their treasures. so i feel that we as consumers are being robbed continuously!

I don't believe that they have too many archives from the 60s. Even the tv shows that have been saved from D.C. (capital wrest. corp.) was due to the fact that Bill Watts asked Vince Sr for copies because he was on those shows. and there is a big blank up to 1972. Even up to 1976 there aren't too many tv shows saved (from what I know) even the msg shows weren't saved until 1973. Before that there is only filmed footage here and there. There has been quite a lot of 70s shows put on demand this last decade. We should be happy because prior to that many of these haven't seen the light of day for decades!

+Arion ApolloSometimes, WWE Home video will include a match of a WWE Superstar from a Japanese promotion. Especially if it took place early in the star's career. When they do, they will have an alternate commentary track available, which usually features either the WWE Superstar talking about the match with a WWE announcer, or they will have Jim Ross or Michael Cole talk about the match as it takes place.

That is a very good point.

that went out the window by the 70's, sneakers were never worn even to go to a wrestling match it was a pair of slacks and shoes with a collar shirt. my old man never wore sneakers in his life i kid you not, slippers in the house and shoes in the streets.

Mark Espinola, in those days, people cared about their reputations. Whether it was for shopping, visiting friends and family, going to the ball game and even a wrestling card, people made an effort to look their best in public.

ブルーノ•サンマルチノは1番大好きなレスラーだった！😄 　永遠のWWWF世界ヘビー級チャンピオン！

Folk just hated his wife yell

それを聞くとラッシャー木村👉😏👉のマイクパフォーマンスのセンス👉😏👉の良さを褒めたくなる。😅笑笑😅

美味しかった⁇

わいは猪木を見たらガブリフランクを食べたくなった

昔当時アイドルだった堀ちえみや本田美奈子さんとCM共演してましたね！馬場さんと本田さんは故人ですね！(悲)

29歳の頃ですね。

+Purplerambler69 Bruno Sammartino was in the middle of his first WWWF (now WWE) Title reign. I guess that, in Japan, when a wrestling opponent shakes the other's hand, it is showing a great deal of respect to him. Perhaps, in the eyes of some Japanese pro wrestling fans, they believed that Sammartino was a heartless, relentless monster, especially if all they knew of him, was the legendary photos of him putting "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers into an "over-the shoulder" backbreaker, and ending his career. in 1963 (in an interview many years later, Rogers stated that the match was done that way, because he was forced to retire from professional wrestling after suffering a heart attack). JWA was still an NWA territory in 1967, when this match took place. When the NWA Championship came in dispute in late-1962, some of the NWA affiliate promotions broke away when their favorite wrestler was not recognized as the NWA World Heavyweight Champion (Capitol Wrestling, lead by Vince McMahon, Sr., was the largest NWA affiliate to break away, and formed the WWWF in 1963). JWA fans most likely supported the continuation of "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers as NWA World Heavyweight Champion, and hated Bruno Sammartino for ending Rogers' professional wrestling career. When Sammartino shook "Giant" Baba's hand, the JWA fans were genuinely shocked, that he would actually do this, in respect for one of their favorite pro wrestling superstars. Bruno Sammartino most likely did this, in order to try to win over the Japanese pro wrestling fans, in order to help promote the WWWF, in order to convert them into WWWF fans.

+Purplerambler69 WWE happened, my friend...WWE happened.

inordinate use of "in order". If your speculation was a speculum you'd be awash in gyno money.

Purplerambler69 VINCE MCMAHON JR. HAPPENED THE ASSHOLE OF ALL ASSHOLES

They still do in Japan

miolim I wish it was still like this, like we would've seen all of the superstars legit abilities.

miolim You are not kidding. Watching "a match" today is no more then watching a choreographed dance routine.

+miolim But it wasn't without drama though. That's always been a part of pro wrestling. Real sports are like that too.

newspapers would report the night's card in the next days edition-sports section

プロレスは真剣勝負では無いが肩書きは一応スポーツ！

ชมลลง

おまえ、こんな小さな車に乗ってるのか？といって、サンマルチのは馬場にキャデラックを送った。 馬場は愛用し、新車に乗り換えるときもキャデラックをえらんだ。

馬場さんの生涯のライバルは日本人レスラーは当然猪木さん！外国レスラーは初期の頃ならブルーノさん！

Yeah, in Japan they had switched to using film cameras like they use in movies for wrestling events at this point. It makes their old footage much better looking than ours.

Dylan Benedict What were the Americans using during that time?

zedhead In the 60s I'm not sure. Most American promotions filmed with video in the 70s and 80s though.

lee brabham They used better cameras because they took wrestling more seriously and they've taken care of the films better while in America they're just tossed in someone's basement to rot.

lee brabham This is 1967 and looks as good as the film that the WWFE used in the early 80's, judging by their Coliseum Video matches from 1980-1985. Japanese wrestling was way ahead of it's time in the production department. Of the few scant WWWF matches from the 60's I have seen, they look like they were shot with old 8MM cameras. This footage is like another planet when compared to some of that US stuff that looks like choppy home movies from the 60's.

While I know you're right about calling out moves takes away from kayfabe, think of it like anime characters yelling out their best moves while they do them 😂

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