Thank you to everyone who has watched this video I've sponsored. Just to add a little more information, the date of this match was January 15th 1954. Also on that card was Pat O'Connor versus Ivan Rasputin, Art Nielsen and The Sheik versus Billy Goelz and Larry Chene, and Killer Kowalski and Yukon Eric in the second of this double main event show. I believe two of the other matches from this show are also already uploaded onto this archive. The show was sold out with 9,629 paid fans in attendance.Check it out!
Was this match a shoot? Normally,Schmidt simply beat his opponents into oblivion and then applied a series of back breakers before finally pinning them.Here Gunkel,a relative unknown,takes Schmidt's best shots and returns them blow for blow before pinning him.Very unexpected.Maybe this one was for real.
