Who was that mystery primate?
I think they used "Sergio" when they wanted to play him up as Italian. Watch a few hours of 80s catch beforehand and every match will seem like a Michelangelo. When this catch first dropped, it seemed like Parmentier was going to part of the regular cast of characters. I know they showed the poster at the beginning of the broadcast, but I think that may have been a typo. ), but once I realized Lamar had a mustache, I could focus on what he brought to the table. I'm glad we have this. Again, I'm going with how Lamar is usually billed. That's it, unless we've overlooked something.
And to make things better, Pat Roach showed up between falls and challenged Der Henker to a match. Gilbert Leduc & Jacky Corn vs. Der Henker (aired 7/3/72)
This was similar to Leduc vs.
Flesh Gordon & Kader Hassouni vs. Wait, how often do we just get one fall when it’s not JIP? It looked like a hard fought, competitive draw, but we only have a few minutes at the end to show for it. Thomy Bourdelle was born on April 20, 1891 in Paris, France as Thomy Charles Bourdel.
It featured five five-minute rounds with the winner decided by two referees at the end.
Just goes to show what you already know -- you have to be in the mood to watch these long technical matches. Corn returned all bandaged up and then it all kind of fizzled out into a draw with Leduc and Corn declared the winners.
This was a nice technical bout.
Not the greatest masked worker of all time, but certainly not the least. Then again, at least it's a pile driver that everyone sells. There's nothing quite as unfulfilling as a stip match without a payoff. Cheri Bibi & Eric Husberg vs. James Brown & Jean Corne (aired 6/19/66) He's one of the worst selling babyfaces we've seen so far.
His name appears on a lot of 60s bills, but there's nothing to suggest he became a big name.
Mambo's posse are back!
Gotta love Jessy with an Y. I've seen that guy in the early 90's too.
All right, let's try to get through this so I can go back to watching 50s catch:
We all know how irate basketball players get when players step over them. I'm just glad I found a match where the combination worked. I'm not sure how things panned out with Chaisne. Here we go!
I can only imagine the promoters at the time were always on the look out for a new heavyweight star.
This was an excellent wrestling match filled with holds, counter holds, and forceful strikes. I watched this twice.
Georges Cohen & Kader Hassouni vs. Anton Terejo & Pierre Lagache (aired 7/21/85) Le Marquis Richard Fumolo de la Rossignolette & Black Shadow (aired 7/14/85)
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I was disappointed when the beast's big transition was a nutshot.
I didn't realize we had Guy Mercier footage from the 50s.
Debusne looked like he was working hard as he was sweating profusely, but he didn't have the skills of a Jacky Corn to keep things interesting, and it wasn't until the finishing stretch that I bought into this.
Il emprunte son nom de ring Chéri Bibi au personnage en vogue de forçat innocent issu du roman éponyme de Gaston Leroux. The footage is so erratic at this point that anything is possible.
I had the opposite experience as I was able to sit through the entire match without pausing. I thought I had seen this before but apparently not.
I don't think you can truly appreciate it unless you watch them in the order that I did. That's too bad considering how entertaining his shtick is.
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Gentilly wasn't the greatest, which may have been the cause. The matwork was fine as well, but the part I really liked was when Labat starting laying in his shots. Finally, the match the world has been waiting for -- Mambo the Primitif vs. Le Petit Prince & Claude Rocca vs. Bob Remy & Anton Tejero (aired 8/18/80)
Mambo does a huge plancha off the top turnbuckle.
Mercifully short.
Was he South American?
It's crazy how much time he spends in control of a bout given how shitty he is. It was
I'm not sure why it was so hard for European guys to lay out a tag match. I think what makes Peruano unique is that he's a foreigner working the tongue and cheek European style. At this point he was a classy young heavyweight.
I'm not sure if that's an indication that catch went off the air for a time. That's not uncommon in European wrestling. When I saw this pop up on the match listings, I thought if Corn could get a good match out of Bibi then he'd be one of the greats.