Ed "Strangler" Lewis and Richard Dick Shikat June 9, 1932 professional wrestling match MMA catch 

Thanks for posting this, it's great! Ed Lewis is one of my favorites of all time, and its wonderful to see him in action. I do want to mention though, to all the people talking about the length of this match and comparing it to the matches of today; the length of matches has more to do with business and tv time than physical conditioning. When a match is planned to go very long, its length is usually worked into the angle and hyped accordingly. For example, Kurt Angle and Brock Lesner had a one hour 'Ironman' match back when Kurt was in WWE. Granted, they are both genuine combat athletes, Kurt being an olympic gold medalist and Brock being a UFC champion, but the 'Ironman' match isn't an unheard of occurrence even done by performers; the Rock v HHH, Sean Michaels v Bret Hart, etc, all performed them just fine. Those are just WWE/F examples, but there are plenty others. While the styles of yesterday and today are indeed very different, and most modern pro wrestlers aren't shooters like in the old days (though I'm noticing its slowly starting to shift back that way as more and more mma fighters and the like are getting into the biz), even the strict performers are still very often in excellent physical condition, injuries aside. I know everyone has a favorite era and a lot of people who prefer one style tend to hate the others, but I personally enjoy most forms of pro wrestling, from the old time 'worked shoot' style to the more performance oriented style. Anyway, just my two cents. Thanks again for posting the great video!

Strangler Lewis was a wrestling legend! He was Lou Thesz's trainer and manager for many years.

thank you for posting this. the boys today could real learn some lessons from this amazing footage.

My favorite part was when he got him in that headlock

I have read a lot about Lewis but never thought there was footage out there. Thanks for posting!

This should be titled “The THRILL of watching a German get Cauliflower ears” YAY

かってプロレスはアマレスのように真剣勝負ゆえに地味な試合運びだった。見映えがするように飛んだり跳ねたりするようになり客が退屈しないように互いに技の応酬をみせるようになった。見せる事が第一の目標になりファンが喜ぶ試合結果をプロモーターが決めるようになった。

This a proper exhibition match. Enjoying the commentary, especially "german boy" and "japanese armlock"

This is one of the greatest matches of all time, this essence of true scientific wrestling, it's not the brawling, and phony scripted matches of the WE. Thanks for the posting!

Fascinating! This match was talked about in Fall Guys by Marcus Griffin, the book from the 30's that shed a light on the industry of professional wrestling and the Gold Dust Trio. This match was quite an interesting piece of business as both wrestlers were managed by Toots Mondt. The story of this was that Shikat agreed to put over Lewis if he got over on Lewis in a return match. Lewis was supposedly quite reluctant to do the job for Shikat!

Wow, a real pleasure for true pro wrestling fans. Thank you for this upload!

Awesome to see old school wrestling like this.

Come on let's get the chant going "this is Wrestling, this is Wrestling.

Wow..very sick arm bar chain maneuvers ..the match was theatrical IMO ..several of those arm bars were legit if finished.

If you play this back at 0.75x speed, you'll see the actual real-life frame rate. This was probably filmed at 20 or 22fps non-sync-sound, which was kind of standard for silent footage (which is why everyone walks too fast in silent film footage--it's shot at a lower frame rate but then played back at 24fps, so everything is being played too quickly).

Ed was the bridge from where wrestling was in the shootfighting days, to what wrestling is now.

This Is History. Thankyou so much for posting this.

wow man this is awesome thank you so much!

I assume this was a theatrical feature. Is there any information confirming that? The pacing is fantastic and amazing how one commentator does a fantastic job of selling the action along with adding in color commentary! Now we hear three nitwits who couldn't properly call either of these guys walking to the ring.

Ahhh yes real pro wrestling unlike the garbage today 👍👍👍😎🤼

How big is the ring here? Looks like a 20-footer, New York style, same as WWE has had since the WWWF days.

SLAM BANG! - I’m guessing this match promoted by Toots Mondt & Jess McMahon?

AWESOME SAUCE MY MAN

thanks

Ring of honor used to like this during their first two years.

What a treat for my right ear.

real men and real wrestling... two well matched sides of beef slowly softening up each other over an hour of combat: no punches thrown, just pins, holds and throws till big ED proved who was best man... true champions

That's a big friggin ring.

Were the matches like half shoot half work back then? Pro wrestling did have it's origin in taking on the circus strongman, etc.

In Nekoosa there is an ed Lewis statue

I would point out that this match wasn't to determine any singular world champion...it was meant to determine a number one contender for the NWA world championship, held by Jim Londos. Of course, Londos had gone independent from Curley's trust a few months before when he found out they were grooming Lewis to go over him, and thus the chances of him stepping into the ring with Lewis were non existent (Londos was thereby stripped of recognition by the state athletic commission, although he kept the physical title belt and continued to defend it). This facilitated the need for Lewis to go into a match with Jack Sherry the following October in which he won the New York State Athletic Commission world title.

FUCKING INCREDIBLE THANK YOU!

I believe that Ed is the strongest man in the world

Sick

Wouldn't mind watching this in modern wrestling

ONE HOUR MATCH

Love headlocks, need a heel to work me over in headlocks and other stuff

Were wresting rings bigger back then? That wrestling ring looks bigger than today's wrestling rings.

Has any of you all that like this video considered just watching real submission wrestling matches? They're all over RU-vid. I get it that you don't like modern pro wrestling with it being silly, like it is, but if you want to watch something realistic, why not watch shoot matches?

This accent is an old NY Queens type accent. My dad has one.

These people in the crowd thought this was a "shoot" right?

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

is the video playing quickly or do they really move that fast

is this a work or a shoot?

Wow, back when it was all real😊!

Wrestling is so much better now than in this era. Watching grown men act like dogs, birds, snakes, and chickens was the epitome of wrestling. Thank you vkm.

EC DUB! EC DUB!

プロレス黎明期のスター、 ヘッドロックの鬼ストロングラー.ルイスとディック.シカットの試合‼️フイルムが残ってたのですね！パンチ、キック等打撃がほとんどなく、ひたすら極め、固め、締める、腕や肘を擦りつけるなど、Theレスリングとゆう試合！それにしても、キーロック(ショートアームシザーズ)をジャパニーズアームロックとアナウンスしていますが、何故❔

No sports entertainment here.

Is this the historic "Milk For Babies" charity fundraiser card "Main Event Match"?

My beautiful mom is 90- and she was a fetus in her mom’s stomach when this match happened! In other words- this was 90 years ago!

Interesting to see Lou Thesz's mentor in action. Can any of today's so called "pros" go 1 hr. 6 min.?

Sorry - just looks worked, compliant and clumsy.

Work or shoot?

Playback .75x 😉

Imagine wastjng money on 60 minutes of headlocks and sidemares during the Great Depression. You deserved to go hungry.

Talk to me people.Is this a work or a shoot.

I rather watch paint try than watch 60 mins of goofy headlocks.

Didn't watch thru until end because there was too much compliance - not as bad as pro, but a feeling of " Let's give 'em a show." Forgive me , but I don't think either grappler is much good.