Mil Mascaras' record of putting people over makes Hogan look like the Brooklyn Brawler in comparison.

It's a good thing Mil sold lots of tickets, he sure never sold anything else.

WTF !!!!!!!!!! LOL "Steiner stayed up all nite studying for a urine test" LMAO !!!!!!

"This doesn't work for me, hermano"

5:56 Jim Cornette screaming: "Oh no! Cactus Jack is dead! He's done it this time!" One of the best color commentator calls ever!

That chair spot where Cactus falls over it backwards outside the ring is pure gold; a great way to get a reaction from the crowd on his own. The sheer brilliance of Mick.

The story behind this and how Kevin Sullivan, Jim Cornette and Jim Ross all teamed up to get Mick over without Jim Herd, Rick Flair and Mascaras knowing it is awesome.

Damn, that chair sold harder for Cactus Jack than Mil Mascaras did!

who is here after hearing Cornette explain how they used losses to get Cactus Jack over? Including this one.

Jim Cornette - funny as hell! "There's nothing wrong with the Mexican people, I feel like everyone should own one or two of 'em"

"Rick Steiner stayed up all night studying for a urine test." - Love those Cornette one-liners

That one bump Mick took equals all the bumps Mascaras took in his entire career.

Mil Mascaras's selling makes Road Warrior Hawk look like Mr. Perfect.

My goodness that was a BRUTAL bump by Cactus. That thud! Maybe worse than Hell in the Cell.

Cactus must have been 100 pounds lighter back then.

In Mick's first book he talks about this match. Basically Mil was too scared to take any real bumps, like that horrendous backbreaker and that pitiful landing when Cactus threw him out of the ring. Mick goes on to say that he told Ric Flair he wanted to have at least 1 kickout after the big dropkick and fall. Flairs response was "This night is not about you. No kickouts". So poor Mick had to suffer but thanks to Ross and Cornette he didn't come off looking that bad. Which apparently made Flair even madder and led him to tell Mick that just because those guys get him over, does not mean he's over. Wrestling was brutal back then.

Genius booking by cornette. Got cactus over. Cactus totally carried the match selling hard.

reading his book for the first time. it is pretty awesome to read a match excerpt and then watch it.

LOL @ 5:53. "Oh NO! Cactus Jack is DEAD!!!"

In 1979, a new pro wrestling publication hit newsstands and magazine racks across the nation. It was Pro Wrestling Illustrated. When the first issue went to press, Mil Mascaras was ranked at #8 in the Most Popular Wrestlers category.

mil always pulled his pants up to his chin to cover his taco gut

If you listen closely, Cactus is introduced as "Captain Jack Manson".

"Oh No! Cactus Jack is Dead!" That was the best call I ever heard in wrestling! This brings back memories!

Watching this after listening to Mick Foley on the Jim Cornette Experience, it wasn't his teeth it was apparently "dry" saliva he spat out

LoL how Mil Mascaras looked pissed at the end of the match, realizing that Cactus Jack came out as the underdog and won over the crowd instantly with his death defying bump ^^ The heel became the underdog hero, while the original face became the cocky heel!

I'm sure Mil Mascaras is a legend in Mexico, but in this country, he will be known as the idiot who eliminated himself in the Royal Rumble.

he ended up being one of the most beloved wrestlers of all time.

I remember this match like yesterday. I knew this dude was special.

I love how Cornette calls Cactus the real winner to subtly show his contempt for Mascaras being booked in the first place.

looks like Mil has been skipping leg day for decades

Cornette promoting the hell out of Cactus. I love it!

Really enjoyed this, great to hear JC working hard to put Mick over.

If Mascaras wrestled this way today he would never get over.

Mr. Cornette was determined to make Cactus into a star during and after this match on commentary.

Mick such a class clown falling backwards over the chair. Definitely something I would've done in highschool This match isn't that bad

Wow Mil Mascaras was 48 years old here and still moved quick as lightning.

Oh man, I just listened to a clip where Foley talks about how he set this spot up with the video camera operator, and how Jim Cornette made him into a bigger star by his reaction. First time actually watching this I thought, "Man that's an oversell but it's working!" Then watched it in slo-mo... that's not an oversell at all! No wonder Mick Foley is a little off today, bumps like this... yeesh. Love him!

lol i like how jim cornette says "mil mascaras" sounds like hes just talking about mascara

Mascaras wouldn't even properly execute the suplex because he didn't want to fall on his back. That guy really was a horrible worker.

"Cactus Jack is dead!" It's 2023 and I still lmao everytime I watch this match. R.I.P. Kev. Miss ya bud. I know we'd still be laughing together at this one.

0:52 Did you hear that? By that time already a Living Legend. What most of the people who came here because of Foley's Book doesn't know is that back then what we call "selling a move" nowdays was not very common in Lucha Libre. By that time, wrestlers in Mexico actually executed the moves and their opponents reacted naturally to them so when Mil Mascaras went to the U.S. he expected wrestlers to do the same. He said it before, "If a wrestler miss a move, I won't pretend like he hit me. I wouldn't expect someone else to sell a move I didn't do". It was just the way he learned.

Jesus Christ. I LOVE(D) Mick Foley growing up, and I still do - but watching him take so many horrific bumps for so many years is very hard for me to watch now that I am an adult. Mick gave us absolutely everything he had in him, and he a legend that should NEVER be forgotten!

Mil Mascaras, Maestro de maestros, de la vieja escuela, de la buena lucha, un deleite verlo luchar.

mick's book brought me here

I just asked myself this question "Has Mil Mascaras wrestled in WCW?" then i found this video

Jim Cornette with the best color commentator line of all time: "Oh, no! Oh, no! Cactus Jack is dead! He's done it this time." A great sell job and when I watch this clip two or three times a year, I eagerly wait for it. As for Mil, when I was a kid in the late 70s, he was the man. A decade later, he was far from the man. I realize Mick was a colorful jobber at the time of this match, but Mil was so unprofessional and the sucking in stomach look is ridiculous.

"from truth or consequences new mexico" always loved that.

Yea i'll agree mick's backbreaker was botched, but such an obvious no sell is bullshit. The commenters are right who said that plenty of other wrestlers would have just beat his ass for that this. The announcers themselves were dumbfounded. the couldn't say how cheap a move it was on the air but it was obvious how they felt by what they DIDN'T say, and how they went out of there way to put Foley over after that. As for Mascaras "skill" look at the sequence starting at 2:00 and how they chump messed up his own move. Real skill.

The way he sold that crash to the floor speaks to how good he was!

Foley wasn't kidding, Jim Cornette really made him look like the star of this one with his commentary and after that bump he deserves it.

When Mascaras wrestled here in North America, he worked all his matches like they were his Mexican "super hero" movies - the "good guy" always wins and registers no pain when you beat on him. I had a ringside seat at Springfield Civic Center (MA) in 1979 when Mil wrestled George "The Animal" Steele. Mil sold NONE of Steele's moves, and dropkicked "The Animal" out of the ring. Steele WALKED back to the dressing room and as he passed me, I thought I heard him say "the hell with this shit"!

Missy Hyatt was so hot.

i have watched this video at least 20 times, and I just now noticed that Gary Michael Cappetta called him Captain Jack Manson.

Calls like this prove why Cornette deserves to be spoken about in the same sentence with Heenan and Lawler. JR, well, theres only one.

I think part of the problem is that the WWE is running short on old-time wrestlers who are still on good terms with the company, so each year they have to rack their brains to come up with one or two inductees, probably by throwing darts at a bulletin board or rolling a 20-sided die.

Mick Foley along side Randy and Bill Mulkey are the three best workers when it came to jobbing their asses off. And *NO* I am *NOT* insulting them by referring to them as jobbers.

I would have loved to see that mark Mil Mascaras no sell for Bruiser Brody. He would have been beaten from one end of the arena to the other.

Good old Mick. Dude has done it all. And he's a good guy!

No one gave two shits about Mil Mascaras after seeing this match. The only thing people remembered was that big bump Mick took hitting the floor.

LMFAO @ jim ross calling cactus an idiot lmfao shit was funny

Mascaras selling like he doesn't want to get his attire dirty.

Yea u cant get much better praise in defeat than when Corny said-"Cactus Jack is the real winner here!"

If you want Mil to sell, then hit him for real. He would respect you if you earned it. Ask The Destroyer.

Hard to believe Mil is Alberto Del Rio's real-life uncle.

Did.. Jim just say everyone should own one or two Mexicans?! Lol

Never mind Mascaras. They wouldn't even give Cactus a clean win over the drummer that night.

That's why I have always remembered this match as I saw this bump when it happened.

Damn, that bump by Cactus on the concrete is worse than Vader powerbombing him on the concrete.

The last 2 seconds with peak beautiful 1990s Missy Hyatt tho... !!!

Jim Cornette during the match: "I didn't mean to offend the Mexican people - I think everybody should own one or two of em." LMAO JR just goes right back to calling the action. hahahahaha

People talk about Mil's ego and no selling. But he was terrific in the ring. He had moves nobody else had.

@5:58 "Oh no! Cactus Jack is dead!" LOL Jim Cornette gave some of the best calls.

MIL MASCARAS a lot of respect for him!!!!

5:51 Foley’s head hitting the concrete was even more brutal than I had expected. And Foley ain’t even selling it that much. Dude is on the apron at 6. I don’t understand how that man is able to still form complete sentences.

Cornette does a genuinely amazing job putting Cactus over on commentary

jim cornette: rick steiner study for a urine test? 4:05

Captain Jack will get you high tonight.

BANG BANG!!!

What a sickening thud when he hit that floor...... 👀

QUE LECCION DE LUCHA LIBRE LE DIO MIL MASCARAS A CACTUS JACK. !!

Still have nightmares about that CRAP entrance music we used for people back then, even then it sounded SO cheap. LOVE how Cornette and Cactus worked this out, it was MAGIC to put him over!

that really does show mascaras' ego and unwillingness to sell properly

Shivani “I’ve got nothing against the Mexican people. I think everyone should own 1 or 2.”

Jim called that backdrop Jim Cornette HOF

The head smacking off the concrete was nasty!

Mil Mascaras! Tremendous leyend!

Perfect opponent for Mr.Piledriver

No Selling No Wonder Nobody Liked Wrestling Mil Mascaras

Alot of wrestlers from Mil's day don't speak well of him. They say he was an acrobat first & a wrestler second. They say he was more concerned with keeping himself over & holding others down. They say he insisted on calling the match himself, because he only knew how to do so much. He was one of a handful I idolized in the late 70's, but looking back, everything they've said seems to be true when I watch his matches on here.

Mil Mascaras awesome moves 2:56 - 6:30

Alot of people here have no idea who Mil Mascaras is. Your knowledge of Professional Wrestling is a insult to the business.

That thud on the concrete floor was sickening.

Dam Mick was skinny af back then

5:50 When I was in high school our gym had stage that was about 4 feet off the ground. I did the Nestea Plunge off of it one time and it hurt to breath for a month

Mil Mascaras has always been more fun to watch than Hulk Hogan, The Rock, Ultimate Warrior etc..

Old school says punches to the head are bad because they expose the business. Not surprised Mil sold that back elbow but not the punch.

I wish the video showed the after match where Cactus fought the live band.

"I Am In Urgent Need of Advice" Mick write that book too?

i had this on vhs and i remember rewinding it and playing it back a few times and then saying to myself yeah those are definitely his teeth lol

I have forgotten about every other match of this show except for the 6 man main event where Sting would blow out his knee. I laughed my ass off too back then when Corny said Cactus Jack is dead.