Friday Night in the Coliseum (1972 Houston Wrestling) 

The animated black lady was "Big Mama" She had a huge white mallet, that she waved at the heels. I have her autograph somewhere!

Amazing how the wrestling business went from this to what it is now. You had a diverse group of fans. Kids, hot women, different races. You had characters with diverse movesets and wrestlers who looked like men. Now its fat nerds living in their parents basement watching porn and wrestlers that look like high schoolers who don’t care about psychology but getting in their fancy spots. The marks are no longer in the seats but in the ring.

Awesome seeing Dory Funk Sr and Terry Funk together..

Whoah, seeing Funk Sr. in action came unexpected and it took a second to swallow! Isn't there like close to zero footage of him wrestling? This is amazing!

Johnny Valentine sneaking the Heart Punch on Stan Stasiak. LOL

Those rats are probably in their 70s now

Good stuff

Pro Wrestling during the kayfabe area. When the action was wild and the fans believed it.Im glad i became a fan in the 70s.Great film.

Junkyard dog versus Mad dog sawyer

Paul Boesch was a great promoter. From this interview and other ones I have seen , he seems like a polite person with a welcoming demeanor and really understands what pro wrestling should be. Thank You KAZUSHI SAKURABA , your channel is an informative look into Houston Wrestling , a promotion I have heard about ; but have not really seen much of. Good luck with future work.

Nice couple of rats in the thumbnail. 😉

Great footage: Johnny Valentine vs Stan Stasiak, that’s how you build an angle.

14:12.....😲.. what a story! Lucky to be alive after that encounter...

I'll never forget my dad taking me to see wrestling live back in the mid to late 60s when I was a kid. I'll never forget seeing a match with Wild Bull Curry. He got an ice pick and started gouging his opponent's face. It seemed like there was blood all over the place, but in actuality there probably wasn't near as much blood as what I remembered. He scared the hell out of a nine year old me back then.

No bad guys in wrestling one fan said at the 11 minute mark of this video? Of course the heels cheat. They want the match to be more exciting. Without them, you would have fan favourites wrestle each other and the fun goes out the window. The ring villains as we have all come to know are as important to the matches as the ring heroes are.

God damn this is the best thing on youtube! like a time capsule! if youre a wrestling true wrestling fan its a must!

The fans are keeping kayfabe better than Bosch's. You younger kids, you hear those fans lose their shit when the heels do their stuff, that kids is what you call having heat. Something these modern heels couldn't generate without help from carrier. You hear the pops the of crowd when the faces make a comeback, that is called getting over. Such a great time capsule of that era.

Damn those chicks were hot. Bet the boys had some fun with em thru the yrs! Great documentary

Great footage. Great quality. Mr. Fuji 2:08 Dave Meltzer 10:46 Woman at 11:50 is funny. Thumbnail 15:41

Man dory sr just a couple of months before he died

vince destroyed the business and oriented it towards male 18-49 and drove these types completely out

Rock and roll express versus midnight express.

I wonder if somebody has those photos the old man took. The wrestling is cool but I love them walking to the fans.

Who made this? Wow it's amazing. Can it be screened?

This is INCREDIBLE.

Danny McShane, Dick Raines, Wild Bull Curry...Who came to our house...Red Bastien...Classic...Bruno came...Nick Bockwinkle.. The Funk's...Wahoo, Johnny Valentine. Boesch brought them all in ...

Is that the same Gypsy Joe who wrestled in Memphis?

Junkyard dog versus Butch Reed.

The face turn of Johnny Valentine was outstanding. These are the times when I first went to the matches with my Grandma. Not long before this, Nick Kozak was taken out of the ring on a stretcher and into an ambulance from the heart punch. I was 11and I believed it was real ! Thanks Mr Sakuraba for sharing this video, it brought back great memories!

WOWWWW! Incredible footage!! The interviews with the fans is priceless! Thank you, Sakuraba!! Houston was a great city for wrestling! I mainly remember Paul Bosch and KHTV channel 39

And better of the Hacksaw. Hacksaw Jim Duggan versus Butch Reed.

Stan Stasiak was great here! His promo and selling of his own finish were so brilliant. Great doc.

This was great ,brought back memories of wrestling at the kiel auditorium in st louis,mo

Still remember the address of the Houston Wrestling office from watching on channel 39. 1919 Caroline at the corner of Pierce. (I think its a parking garage for a hospital now)

I clicked for the babes in the thumbnail

15:39 the ring rats were worth it

This is extremely amazing, incredible, awesome, priceless historic footage for us to pass next generation in whch you can see old Boesch pplying sleeper hold to young Terry Funk, baby face Bull Curry and enthusiastic atmosphere of Huston Colosseum in the early' 70s. Tank you Sakuraba-san.

Look at the cauliflower ear on paul lmao

Johnny valentine as a face wow looked so much like his son here

Johnny Valentine in his prime...OMG!

The way wrestling ought to be! Love the old school wrestling crowds too!

A great striped down documentary on the subject

Paul Boesch was the FN Boss, in pro wrestling history!!!

13:40... the man who took the pic's says dont turn too fast.. the guy scrolling the pic's says im not! The very next picture he flips to the man describes the photo by using his middle finger! 😅😅😅😅

Fantastic classic from the golden age of wrestling

Hello,in 1972, I was 4years old.thank you for sharing your video 🙏👍

16:12 I wonder if he’s still alive

Rick Flare versus Butch read

Looking forward to more great videos! It's going to be a long month till your back..LOL

The 2 referees was such a revolutionary thing! U never saw 2 refs unless dirty tactics were un previous matches... i so much love watching 70s houston wrestling

Remember those days one of those matches? I remember when I was young. Tiger Conway junior and Gino Hernandez.

This is the best history right here! Houston Wrestling at its finest.

Who the fuck went "thumbs down" on this?

Patterson with t heat

This is absolutely great!

Wish I could go back to 1972 life was so much better along with wrestling. I just subscribed only if wrestling was like this today.

This is fucking amazing! Pls tell me there are more videos like this out there!?

Thank you so much for bringing me back to my childhood. I was such a huge Johnny Valentine fan. Again, thank you.

awesome video, was this recently found? I know the book was to get a rerelease sometime in February and they had an event for it in Houston. Was this shown at the event?

this is when wrasslin was real , now its all fake and stuff , i dont even care to watch it any more

Johnny valentine was the greatest👍

I hope that nice Oldman is RIP ❤

Terry was selling only slightly less thirty years later. RIP

Hu$tletown TX

Wow...some babes there at 15:41....

This footage is unreal...thank you

Thank you for uploading this!

I’m a native Houstonian who grew up near the Coliseum and spent many a Friday night there. My dad would drop off and then pickup me and my friends. I’d cut a neighbor’s grass for $5 and buy a $1.50 balcony ticket. The heart punch was scary. Loved it.

This was an absolute pleasure to watch. There's just something special about old school wrestling. And seeing it in black n white makes it feel nostalgic. I wish I could go back in time to experience these days. Watching these interviews with the fans and how close they were in interacting with the wrestlers is really cool. The diversity of people. The way it brought them together. But that woman who was talking about her experience with a man who was bent on hurting her and killing her was errie. But those 2 beautiful young ladies makes u appreciate what woman use to look like. Way more attractive than the woman of today who are completely covered in tattoos

This is fantastic

Another great match. I remember The spoiler vs Andre the giant.

How in the world did you get this footage thank you

I grew up at the Coliseum on a lot of Fridays lol

Check out the cauliflower ear on Boesch!

Llama Mr. Norman.

Who is the first wrestler introduced, I can't make out his name ? The one with the wild hair..

More of this 🎉

Mad cool!

14:12 Conceal carry. Especially around blacks.

3:50 - 3:55. Lol, what the heck was that?

The announcer sounds like Boyd Pierce, was that him?

Thank you for this and other uploads. As others have typed, fantastic footage.

Wow great stuff!

15:46 Those 2 are beautiful

This can't be real

Those two young women in this video who talked about wrestling don't know the dangers they faced in 1972 is there were serial killers left and right all Crosses country looking for victims who look just like them

Why 2 refs?

Wait a minute I know they had COLOR by 1972. What gives?! I hate black and white footage. 😑

Worst than wwe .