Kowalski often set an incredibly fast pace, but there are a lot of lulls here. Rocca liked short bursts of superb display but long periods of slow pulling and tugging to catch his breath. At his best, though, Rocca was one of the most graceful and effortless performers I've ever seen.
Please allow another set of subtitle in English? I know we are not your primary audience, but I would like to follow the original commentary. Heck, if you can add a third set of subtitles, could you translate the Japanese for us? I heard you mention Bruiser Brody, so I suspect it's not the same as the English commentary.
In my view, Killer Kowalski should be among the top 10 or 20 most evil wrestlers to ever step into the ring. Many of his opponents have left the ring in a bloody, gory mess, including the legendary Bruno Sammartino. His contemporary, The "Original" Sheik, was equally sadistic and so was Abdullah the Butcher. As an aside, notice the kind of audience they had back in the day. They comprised mostly of adults dressed in semi-formal attire. Today's wrestling audience though is vastly different. Some of today's spectators don't even have clothes on. That's a shame.
shikat2371 Killer also left some bloody messes while winning the all Texas Brass Knuckle Championships for several years. None of that was planned ahead of time as is pro wrestling. Killer has an extensive interview on His wrestling career where He explains how that all went down. ~( :-})={>--- ]
Type of audience: Well, society has changed a lot since 1954 so of course it's not the same type of crowd we see today. This type of audience wasn't exclusive to pro wrestling, people dressed that way all the time -- movie theater, opera, baseball, wrestling, a simple errand at the grocery store....that was the mentality back then, to look as classy and as dapper as possible every time you went out, a mentality that disappeared with time as society evolved (for good or bad). And that's not necessarily a bad thing, as long as the fans shows respect to the wrestlers and to the art of wrestling it doesn't matter how they are dressed, wearing a fancy hat or a $2000 coat means nothing if you can't respect those busting their backs out there.
