Bravo for your stupendous efforts in finding and uploading this entire match. This is glorious cultural/sports history that would be lost without historical researchers/collectors like you sharing it. Thank you, again.
Rikidozan's conditioning was unbelievable. He looked fresh and full of energy even after 60 min of grappling. Thesz had completely gassed out which is perfectly understandable since it was an iron man match.
Nice to see Thesz as a chickenshit heel. He was always a bit heelish as a face, with the elbow shot on a break but here you see him begging off, complaining to the ref and ringside officials and other classic heel mannerisms.
