Gorgeous George was the prototype for the wrestlers that came years later who each had their own gimmick. He was ahead of his time.

OMG!!!, I just went back to my childhood. I watched my hero Gorgeous George when I was 7, in person. He was our TV hero too. He was the Liberace of wrestling. I'm 78 and remember these episodes very well and thanks for bringing it back thanks to you and youtube.

Both my parents met Gorgeous George . They said he was very friendly and warm in person . Truly a trendsetter in Pro Wrestling ! There will never be another one like him !

As a kid growing up in the 60's I was fortunate enough to see Gorgeous George a few times on Sunday morning TV. I knew then it was something special . From then on I was a fan of the heel .

Please someone make a movie of him. He was the first often immulated but never duplicated every wrestling fan would buy tickets

The Liberace of wrestling

My grandmother loved him. She watched all of George's spectacles.

MASSIVE star in the late 1940's up to his death in 1963. He's the one who talked Cassius Clay into promoting himself early in his career. They met in 1961...and George told Clay to become verbose...(talkative)...promote yourself as the wrestlers did then...and do now!

I grew up with old time wrestling. So many characters with their own style, good guys and bad guys. All was great acting.

Gorgeous George was dressed to impress indeed. LOL!

The man was a trend setter Ric Flair came behind him and took it to another level.

I like how the ref is bigger then the wrestlers

ITS REALLY ASHAME THAT I CAN WATCH THIS MATCH FROM START TO FINISH AND BE ENTERTAINED. BUT I CAN'T WATCH 1 MIN OF TODAYS GARBAGE 💯💯💯

Great piece of professional wrestling history, excellent!

The original GLAMOUR of pro wrestling .

George had skills besides having charisma

The "Hellenic Look" with a "Grecian contour"--truly, a rhetorical triumph of redundancy. And in those days, ringside seats really were ringside seats!

True showmanship. He set the standard that all other wrestlers follow.

My dad gave gorgeous George a run for his money back in the 50s. I still have the program

I would love watching him spray the ring with perfume. Cracked me up.

Happy I came across this. This is the first wrestling match I've watched since the attitude era in the wwf.

Muhammad Ali was influenced by Gorgeous George when he was young and that’s why he acted in that boastful manner. Thank you for this old video

Gorgeous George was the biggest TV star of the 40's and 50's. He was bigger than any TV show (I Love Lucy. The Honey Mooners, Westerns , all of them. Wasn't born then, but found it out later.

Great sportsmanship by the Gorgeous one!

Sad that Mister Moquin could not accept defeat with dignity.

He sure put on a great show. What always baffled me were those idiots who criticized Pro Wrestling as "FAKE". These same fools would go to a movie and cheer at a great fight scene on the screen by two or more great Hollywood stunt men, and yet not be able to appreciate a live action fight scene put on before his very eyes by highly skilled and professional stunt men working as Pro Wrestlers. A great fight show is a great fight show. Gorgeous George, Lou Thez, Man Mountain Dean, The Swedish Angel. These men were great performers and put on unbelievable shows. They were also greatly under paid and under appreciated.

I'm 62 from Malaysia. Used to watch reruns of Gorgeous George, Mr Moto, Tiger Jit Singh in the 70's. Great stuff. Mantap 👍

Thanks for this one. Brings back happy memories from my childhood, watching the gorgeous one do his thing on our 12 inch black and white TV.

I remember these matches on t.v. as a kid in the very early 60's cool stuff!

Over 25 years ago I was visiting my grandparents in Buffalo, NY and while checking out a yard sale, found an old scrapbook full of pictures of wrestlers. It was 25 cents. Later on while looking through it more thoroughly, I found an autographed picture of Gorgeous George and one of his bobby-pins. Quite a few autographed pictures of other wrestlers of the day as well.

My Great Grandma used to make Georges outfits. Eunice Kjellman.

The length of George's hair was a preview of things to come. 😊

Brings back memories. I was a kid in the 60's. I watched WCTV out of Tallahassee, FL. I recollect a time when I was at a friend's house and he said it's time for "rasslin" let's go down to grandpa's house. When we got within 100 feet of the house I heard the worst cussing and he'll raising I ever heard. My friend said that his grandpa hated it when the bad guys cheated and would. One off the chain. The good old days.

Wow!! Truly great classic "wrassling" . Never seen it before. Thank you!

I used to love this stuff. My favorite was Mr. Moto, he had Japanese "rising suns" on his knee pads and had a special powder he rubbed in his opponent's eyes that was secretly given to him by his assistant, Fiji. He had a Sumo-style pre-match warmup.

Mama used to take me to see Gorgeous George in Norfolk!

I’ve always heard the name Gorgeous George but never bothered to look it up. My bad!!! Love this vid!! Thanks so much for the enlightenment. Now I’m hooked, will be researching this classic guy👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼😂🤣😂🤣 reading everyone’s comments is a delight👍🏼👍🏼thx y’all 😀

I remember him as a kid. One thing I learned back then, there are no bad wrestlers just bad actors.

Watched these matches live on early TV way back in the early 50's in Pittsburgh, PA!

I've never heard of Gorgeous George until now, and I'm in LOVE❤️❤️❤️❤️

We had a rock shop and jewelry store in Las Vegas in the mid 70's. Gorgeous Gorge used come in. He was really nice old man then. I wrestled in high school, he tried to recruit me into professional wrestling.

Muhammad Ali said that he and his brother went to a Gorgeous George match. When GG came to the ring, the audience booed loudly. Ali said his brother said “Boy, do they hate him!”, to which Ali responded “Yeah, but look at how many people came here to hate him.”

If today's stuff did some of this stuff It would be stuff I'd wanna watch

Lol. At George falling into crowd after that hit with his tray at the end. George was great.

Warner Bros made a cartoon with Bugs Bunny as The Masked Carrot..At the beginning of the toon Bugs is the mascot for Ravishing Ronald the De-Natured Boy. I see what the cartoon was based on.

Gorgeous George had hair from the early 90s rock band

In a epiphany a young Robert Zimmerman realized he'd be famous oneday after seeing him in a department store exhibition. He couldn't hear the words, but he could read his lips, he said" Your making it come alive.."

" hemakes a peacock look like a plain jane !" ( 😃 laughs out loud 🤣 )

The main influence in Muhammad Ali's style of showboating.

Well he got the fans booing. Great heel, but gotta love him. George was ahead of his time.

HE WAS LIKE THE "NAT-URE BOY" RICK FLAIR. WHOOOOO !

Remember the "gold" bobby pins he use to throw out into the audience? What a ham😂.

Often imitated never duplicated.

And welcome Grapple Fans! Kent Walton here.

George was so good at getting and keeping heat that he often lost and still remained over. He just had IT. Few do. He did. RIP, Mr. Wagner.

He was a hell of a showman.

Ref has his fresh WW2 Tats

I remember him when I was a kid and then 1950s. What a character.

First time I ever saw him he's great.

70 years later and the stain of Moquin’s poor sportsmanship remains. Clearly, and beyond all doubt, the victory belonged to The Human Orchid,

In the days of Lord Blears, Barron Michele Leone, Hans Schnabel and Mr. Moto!

EVERY GRANDMOTHERS' FANTASY

I find it ironic how so much of the crowd is booing the man who probably indirectly influenced 70% of entertainment in USA.

What most people don’t know about George Grant is that latter in life he became a Christian and was a Baptist minister

He was one of the best RIP

Gorgeous George was a trailblazer that laid out the road to follow for so many with his flair. Many of whom became trailblazers in their own right. Superstar Billy Graham, Jesse Ventura, Ric Flair. George was one of the first.

The first Ric Flair

Absolutely hilarious!!! THIS is where Ali got his play book from

I wish they would make a movie about him.

In his biography The Greatest , Muhammad Ali admitted George gave him the idea of attracting publicity by making people attend his fights hoping he would get “taken down”. Definitely worked.

This is awesome. Its like A cartoon. It's just great !

The interviewer is Jack Little later to be a very well known wrestling commentator in Melbourne Australia with GTV 9

Gorgeous George the Glamor Queen of Wrestling. 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁💖💖💖

That was fantastic!

So many emulate him. Muhammad Ali, Ric Flair, Dusty Rhodes, etc

Started his act in 1941 and today they're still doing it. A great wrestler crowds like but one they hate they'll pay to see.

Great classic content.

This is classic

They are sexy handsome gentlemen. I love them.

This is Great .

Story goes grand ma as a widow would be yelling in german at the 60s black and white TV while watching wrastling... while working her rosary.

I'm 67, and the guys I remember as my favorites on Saturdays were Leaping Larry Shane, Bobo Brazil, and The Student...

Gorgeous George is the one that Mohammad Ali got the idea on how to promote his fights.

A true professional! I'm glad he's in the HOF! He was one of the best of all time especially since his character is who everyone emulated.

Notice? He never ran for President? And HIS hair was real.

Gorgeous George was Pro Wrestling's first true Superstar.

Un señor del espectáculo .

EVERYthing GG created was so out there for late ‘40s-‘50s. So effeminate! The Human Orchid with “Hellenic Robe”, Perfume Gun, Georgie Pins, “valette”, illegal use of ropes, bleached bl😅nude hair, even Pomp & Circumstance. The announcer too - “oh brother! Hahaha.” The early version of Monsoon’s “give me a break, Brain!”

10:17 Moquin turning his head to prevent getting teabagged lmfao.

Really thought Moq had him but Gorgeous pulled technically what his 9 year old acolyte Ali did to Foreman substituting the rope a dope with "wait a second, I have a bruise that needs attention," throwing his opponent grappler off his rhythm that eventuated in a Gorgeous triumph. Dapper dresser with outstanding tresses but a true Einstein once in the ring.

Can definitely see where Ric Flair got some of his in ring persona from George.

Interesting how close the crowd is seated to the ring. Fun upload by the way!

If it wasnt for Gorgeous George we wouldnt have: Buddy Rodgers Billy Graham(RIP) Ric Flair Dusty Rhodes(RIP) Hulk Hogan Rick Martell(RIP) Rick Rude(RIP) Randy Savage(RIP) Shawn Michaels

Ravishing Ronald vs The Crusher

Didn't follow Wrestling but I Remember this Guy, and Crusher Kowalski. LOL

Some people think wrestling is bad because it's scripted, I think that's what makes it great. Love the crowd, the guy at the beginning trying to start a boo chant. Wonder if he was a plant.

Now we are told how brave and heroic George is as “head of the table” is said 100x and everyone is skinny and tattooed

More, please.

I remember seeing an interview with Mohammed Ali awhile ago where Ali mentioned being influenced by Gorgeous George regarding how to market to the public.

He finished him off with the old "69 hold".