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George south has a great mind for the business

George South has been wrestling's best kept secret for a long time.

Great Commentary from a man who knows the art form

I swear this guy could hold a class for pro-wrestling booker from backyard to big corporate wrestling promotion.

Wrestling used to be a morality play, which kept a lot of people hooked.

Nothing but love and respect for Mr. South.

Listening to this guy is a lot of fun. He's refreshingly upbeat.

He does a good interview!

Could listen to this Veteran All Day Great Wrestler !!

South is right they give too much away for free now. The jobber matches were really far more important than people think.

God bless you George South.

I like that hammerlock reversal at 1:37!

I agree that it's weird that the top guys are always fighting each other. A match stop's feeling special after you have watched the same people go back and forth for months. Also, my favorite jobber was the Brooklyn Brawler. I always looked forward to seeing the Brooklyn Brawler when I was a kid. He was a professional "underneath guy".

No need for pay per views anymore. Not for years. Love George South. What an awesome guy.

Not all to familiar with George South, but, I appreciate his insight and candor. I appreciate just getting a little glimpse not in to what I thought was going on, but what was REALLY going on. Thanks for sharing, George!

Mulkey Brothers and George south should win the 6 man tag championship

I miss the old days of pro wrestling most of the youngsters to day don't have it. They are more actors then athletes

Growing up watching wrestling I actually liked the matches with Barry Horowitz, Lanny Poffo, George South, Iron Mike Sharpe. You pretty much knew they weren't going to get the win, but unless the office was building up a monster heel (or babyface in the case of Iron Mike and sometimes George), the match was going to be good, maybe not long, but it would be a solid entertaining match.

Remember when the story was told through the wrestling match itself not 15 minutes of BS before a punch is even thrown. Standing ovation for George South. Ring psychology. It’s a lost art.

You can't have a lifelong jobber anymore... After a year or two there are 38 KZfaq videos showing why he needs to be a star.. All an hour long.

I actually agree with George that TV matches should have the big stars facing rookies and upstarts, so the bigger event means more.

That’s part of the change to the business. It was once about using tv to drive the live shows. Guys were paid off the live show receipts. Today, it’s a tv show, the networks pony up all or part of the production costs and everyone on the card has a guaranteed deal. Even the guys in AEW that are hardly seen are making a very good income for nothing.

Perhaps one of the greatest jobbers but the man deserves the hall of fame. That’s George South.

I love this story about the Sheik. I made my pro debut working with Abdullah the Butcher. I had a similar talk before the match. Abby couldn't have treated me any nicer before or after the match, and he protected me throughout the match itself. I was surprised at how agile he was for a guy his size.

As a kid, I would watch The Sheik and Bobo Brazil on Big Time Wrestling in my hometown of Lansing, Michigan. The Lansing Civic Center held so many matches that were the forefathers of wrestling today. They set the tone. The original Sheik may have been the greatest wrestler/showman of them all. Praying on his rug before the match. Carrying every concealed weapon he could get his hands on. What a great comment that in wrestling today, you don't know the good guys from the bad guys. THE SHEIK WAS THE ULTIMATE BAD GUY!! Every man who wrestled him wore the white hat. Figuratively speaking. It was fun. It was make-believe. And it was art on a grand scale. The Sheiks' real name was Ed Farhat. His extended family was a wealthy group of lawyers in the Lansing area. Without his kind of color and joyful fantasy, the wrestling of today would never have happened. The Sheik could give Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair lessons in showmanship. They owed this icon of the past a royalty check for the money they made from his trail blazing magic act.

I've been saying this for years. It gave you a chance to see your favorites beat people cleanly. Jake would come out an ddt a bunch of random guys then jake would have a run in with someone. It left more room to branch off an lead to other things an keep people guessing. Other thing I feel missing is stall holds. Like demolitions neck crack or neck pinches.

George is not Lying about him getting heat from not removing his jacket! Lmao it used to irritate me when i would ref his local matches in the NC area. I was like damn George take the jacket off and lock up already after 5-10 mins of him working the crowd!

As an 80s kid wrestling was the thing to watch I gravitated more an more to ufc after wcw closed but I 'taught my daughter to look at wrestling as a play with CRAZY STUNT PPL!!! doing crazy stunts an even knowing its scripted with the stuntman mindset its still really really entertaining!!.

Agree. It was better viewing when they had jobbers on tv. You got to see the ability of the talent and it made it much more exciting when the superstars collided.

George tells it like it is DADDY!

Smart man

Years ago I had a room mate who used to get all excited about wrestling and I said to him " you know its fake , right?" And he said to me " you get all worked up over 'Star Trek'? You know that is fake , right?" From then on I kept my opinions about wrestling to myself cause he was right

Good interview... but where is Stand up for greatness podcast? Miss seeing stevie and Matt

You are eat up with knowledge. Wow!

So true. When Abby came out from the dressing room it was game on.

Nobody believes the magician actually sawed the girl in half, but they still went to see the show. People knew that things they saw in the wrestling ring weren’t real, but they came to the matches to see the show and just maybe figure out how the magic in the ring works.

I remember when ivan koloff gave George a hundred dollars to demonstrate the Russian chain on him and at one point, he choked him with it and took the hundred dollar bill back.

True

George you are not very old. I always thought you were much older.

I’ve been watching wrestling for years but I never heard of George South. What was his ring name?

Old wrestling versus current Wrestling John Wayne versus Clint eastwood.

Art Pritts baby!! 😂

He's so right. I hated Ultimate Warrior for that reason. And I enjoyed guys like Hogan, Austin, Rock, DX because the entrance was killer. They learned that from the old school guys. The fear that the crowd had when Abdullah would come out was crazy. People would run from their seats if he walked in their direction. There's a formula that is tried and tested over decades of pro wrestling that these new guys haven't learned. That's why it's unwatchable.

Yeah he's 100% right. Its a huge part of the problem w/Roman Reigns having the title forever. You know he wins.

Good Hello

Great guy. But I will solve a mystery for him. And this is the reason Vince succeeded where others failed. Wrestling is a TV show, plain and simple. That is where the money is. The old model of booking jobber vs star isn't cut out for the modern era. It's all about weekly ratings, not building up a main event. And as he acknowledged, it really never hurt ticket sales. If people see a jobber facing off against a name, it's an immediate channel change for 9/10 viewers.

no offense intended, but I only vaguely remember George. please don't take that to mean you wearn't important or not appreciated. some people forget that when most guys and girls look smooth as butter in the ring its due to people like George. my first exposure to pro wrestling was the wwf in 1980 or so. my first wrestler I said was my favorite was Bob Backlund. now I know he was an outstanding ametuer wrestler, but you still can't look that good without a LOT of help from your opponent. (more like partner.) I apologize if the term "jobber" is demeaning. back then that was the term used and not one I created. anyway, those Saturday shows were almost always a squash match between a face and a heel jobber or a heel against a face jobber. we always knew how it was gonna go, but we got to see our favorite use their arsenal of defensive moves and their unique finisher. I think j even remember Bob Backlund using more than one finisher. I always wanted to to see the roll up bridge pin combo he used. the cross face chicken wing came after. I think he even used the "electric chair" (an atomic drop/the spine chiller supreme.) it was different back then and maybe even a bit more fun. thank you George South.

Wouldn't b any kind of wrestling at all wouldn't for jobbers nothing but respect for George South

If this guy invited me to his schooo we’d make tons of money I promise Hit me up George

I like the way wrestling is now with the no bad guys no good guys it's just a lot better for me because I just want to see a good match it don't matter who's good who's bad that just sound like childish now thinking about that

They built up to main events at arena shows when that was what made the money and the TV shows were just adverts. Now TV is where the money is, so the main event followed. Sorry George, you missing the way it was is a whisper, and money talks.