The Sheik of Araby vs. Bill Melby (04/26/1957)

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The Sheik of Araby vs. Bill Melby (04/26/1957)

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Chicago Film Archives presents "Wrestling from Chicago"

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The Sheik of Araby (Edward George Farhat) faces Bill Melby in a 1 fall match with a 30 minute time limit. Friday, April 26th, 1957 at the Chicago International Amphitheatre.
Original: 16mm., B&W, Optical Sound. F.2008-04-0042.
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@kazamidori1 4 жыл бұрын

He was same person of The Sheik ？

@frankfrank9437 2 жыл бұрын

awesome headscissors 🔥😁👍👌

@demontebacus3231 4 жыл бұрын

Melby once tagged with Billy Darnell, both were awesome wrestlers..

@SDG.12 4 жыл бұрын

Damn the Sheik was a good looking guy

@leeinvegas 6 жыл бұрын

Bill Melba was a bodybuilder as well. Loved watching him use the Sheik

@DotDotkins 9 жыл бұрын

Somewhere along the way Ed Farhat decided that these long matches with holds weren't for him and decided to start acting like a wild man using foreign objects and throwing fire at his opponents.

@MrChristopherHaas Жыл бұрын

The same could be said of Crusher, Bruiser, many others once they aged

@zeitxgeist Жыл бұрын

cool seeing sheik give and take slams. cut out a lot of the matwork and you've got a good modern TV match here. sprinkle in a couple of modern techniques and you might even have a good modern ppv match here as well.

@nanakia99 5 жыл бұрын

Russ Davis was sick that day. 20:27 nice

@lutherp.smithjr.5842 4 ай бұрын

Ed Farhat was a U.S. Army tank commander during WWll

@vicscissors 10 жыл бұрын

Great wrestling.

@jasonbuzzalini5174 2 жыл бұрын

5:00 right where he puts his hashish?!😂

@mda1218 2 жыл бұрын

pipe

@TheRydog61 9 жыл бұрын

nice vid

@jdouglas1327 Жыл бұрын

Love Bill Melby. Another good looking wrestling stud in the ring. Love watching him on the receiving end of some good punishment.

@JackJones-ke8mo 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah dude 😎 good match 👍 What is up? Man on man action 🔥 R U man enough?

@quadraticresidue 2 жыл бұрын

Two absolute legends in the ring. Interesting that Abdullah Farouk was not at ringside with his protoge.

@ernestospironellijunior4803 4 жыл бұрын

Bill Melby e muito mais forte e muito lindo 💪💪💪🐻🐻🐻❤️❤️❤️❤️🇧🇷

@grail68 5 жыл бұрын

Jim Cornette wishes this was the only type of wrestling that existed today

@collinwoodland9795 3 жыл бұрын

No he just wants wrestling to he seen as an athletic contest, and less of the inexplicable silly shit they put out today

@MrChristopherHaas Жыл бұрын

He, like myself, can live without senseless gymnastics and endless obvious cooperation that leads to dives and flips that mean nothing.

@Tom85AVFC 14 күн бұрын

Tell me you don’t listen to a word Jim Cornette says without telling me you don’t listen to a word Jim Cornette says.

@TheHairyarmpitlover 9 жыл бұрын

Good quality vintage bout with handsome ex body builder Bill Melby and Arab hard man The Sheik. The Sheik was the obvious time waster and dirty tricks wrestler but who could have beaten Bill with his trademark hammerlock if he continued to keep Bill prostrate on the canvas, weakening Bill's big bicep and shoulder. Bill's muscular advantage helped dominate the Arab quite a lot but he didnt break him and a draw ensued!

@TheTerryE 5 жыл бұрын

I hate draws. Really really hate them. No satisfaction in a draw.

@andrewoliversatchell1963 9 жыл бұрын

COLOUR

@lendrury2771 4 жыл бұрын

Fkn sheikh was from Brooklyn lol

@tumsfestival 3 жыл бұрын

Brooklyn, Michigan? He was actually born in Lansing.

@jasonbuzzalini5174 2 жыл бұрын

Detroit area

@MrHmg55 2 жыл бұрын

@@jasonbuzzalini5174 And of Lebanese descent, but there are no sheiks in Lebanon, just as there are no sheiks in Iran, the Iron Sheik's homeland, or in Iraq, where "Sheik" Adnan al-Kaissie was billed from.