a real pleasure , those 6 together in the original japanese promotion and with this viewing quality ... never thought i could see something like that ... a big thank you for that . peace from france ; )
Killer X was Frank Townsend, who wrestled in Japan in the early 60's. He was a baby face wrestler when in the US, particularly in the AWA . He unfortunately died very young at the age 0f 32 in a freak boating accident.
punches we're way to phony looking back in the 60's. Actually the matches we're as well. Not like the mid 70's and 80's wrestling. Much more real looking.
Wow! Gino Morella before he was Gorilla Monsoon and Giant Baba when he could get up off the mat without pulling himself up rope by rope. Oh, those were the days when I was a kid. Pro wrestling was fake in the sense it is fake today, but it looked like a sport, not like a Jerry Springer Show on steroids. The idea was to pretend to beat the other guy to a pulp, but not to humiliate him. The people who got humiliated were the jerky managers, like Red Berry, Bobby Davis, for example, who deserved it because they acted like jerks, cheated all the time, played the role of someone pretending to be smart, who was just self-centered and self-important.
I guess Gino hadn't made it to Mongolia yet... lol But he was still in good athletic shape in 1963, after all he was a three sport athlete at Ithaca College. No better wrestler than the Killer, i.e., Walter Kowalski. You can Rick Flair me until you're blue in the face.
