STEVE WRIGHT & the Quest for Brian Maxine's Gold!! - Wrestle Me Review

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Marc & Pete can't get enough of Brian "Goldbelt" Maxine as they review a classic World of Sport bout of his against STEVE WRIGHT (the father of WCW dancing hunk Alex Wright!!), and rescue a GENUINE BRITISH WRESTLING HEIRLOOM from obscurity!!
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@nicklomas181 Год назад

thanks to you guys I've started saying "Who do you think you are, Kendo Nagasaki?" and I will keep saying it until the day I die. I also bought his book thanks to you 2.

@LeslieMorris Год назад

These British wrestling episodes are absolutely incredible. Thanks so much.

@Kaltagstar96 Год назад

I really adore these WoS videos and honestly I never realised that Steve Wright was A) so good in the ring and B) so handsome by any standards (it's obvious where Alex got his good looks and talent from). I also love the, in kayfabe, Wright has an injured leg and then Maxine just comes over like "You know what'd make you feel better, mate? A signed Brian Maxine photo"

@L_Train 10 месяцев назад

Alex Wright is bald now so maybe his genes weren't so good.

@Eidenhoek 8 месяцев назад

@@L_Train Hair skips a generation.

@michaellee8816 Год назад

Easily the most interesting and fascinating wrestling channel on RU-vid.......not even close

@PedroBenolielBonito Год назад

Do you have a moment to talk about Our Lords and Saviours, OSW Review?

@heartgenerator4967 Год назад

@@PedroBenolielBonitoOSW review are great, but give me a bell when they cover World of Sport

@PedroBenolielBonito Год назад

@@heartgenerator4967 fair do's, this is Wrestle Me's niche, and they do it beautifully. They are already a Top 3 wrestling channel for me, as well, right behind OSW and in contention with Wrestling Bios for second place. There's just something about people from the British Isles and Ireland talking about wrestling that hits different.

@pmc8451 Год назад

@@PedroBenolielBonito OSW don’t really do it for me, Wrestling Bios is good but more or less just covers the same wrestling history as everyone else, albeit usually in more depth. Kim Justice’s Wrestling Road is criminally underrated and covers topics no one else does, especially Japanese wrestling.

@jonedepth9164 Год назад

I remember Shinsuke Nakamura saying in an interview how much he admired Steve Wright from watching his matches with Tiger Mask I and realising that Steve Wright was completely outworking him.

@Donathon-xt2nl Год назад

As a Texan and a life long fan of Southern 'Rasslin....I love these classic UK matches.... I've sadly never heard of most of them..... my goodness must have been a great time

@Adam-kn3tv Год назад

This old UK stuff reminds me of a lot of Southern territories back in the day.

@Donathon-xt2nl Год назад

@@Adam-kn3tv really it does.... but maybe with more humour

@simondennis9460 Год назад

It was a magical time sir. Saturday lunch times were a glorious affair.

@Hundeputzmunter Год назад

This channel is unearthing the lost history of British wrestling and I'm here for every second of it

@paulwalsh8459 Год назад

These world of sport videos are just bloody brilliant. This should be a tv show , these wrestlers deserve to be seen and the guys are so entertaining anyone can watch. Absolutely brilliant

@graemenicol6377 Год назад

Been a old git at 53 I can remember when WOS was on TV in the late 1970s up until ITV stopped showing it in the 1980s part of my regular Saturday afternoon viewing it was great.

@richardpreston7333 Год назад

Banyabat being 110% on point as always

@bigrigjoe5130 Год назад

They sounded like little kids at the end It wasso wholesome

@waterloggedwatermark4591 Год назад

As a patron, I can say its 100% worth it - this week, I nearly died laughing when they did a bit about buffalo bill getting a virtual meet and greet with Big E - classy stuff

@RobJaskula Год назад

Does the Patreon have video?

@joshuaDstarks Год назад

I immediately thought of Alex Wright when I saw the thumbnail, so it’s no surprise this is his father. What a dropkick!

@Hyde_Hill Год назад

Alex arguably even did it better. He had one of the best drop kicks in the 90s. So underrated because of his gimmicks and push.

@rizeorfall Год назад

Great episode! Wrestle Me has quickly become a favorite channel.

@A-small-amount-of-peas Год назад

I felt oddly nostalgic for my Nans house in the 80's when I saw the front row of that audience

@joelegue182 Год назад

"Hey man, it's Alex Wright, THE GERMAN!" If you want to know what the Germans are about, pick me and you'll have one hell of a victory, I PROMISE!"

@troy801 Год назад

ICONIC

@billbird6494 Год назад

Wictory

@RGSMANIA Год назад

I'm close to signing up for my first patreon at this point. If it included a crazy frog ring tone I'd already be there

@MrDoingitforthekids Год назад

I'm pretty 100% certain that's not the belt - He's my dad, When the original was stolen he had casts of the "badges" made out of brass, I took them to school and ground/filed off the excess buffed them all up and he got them mounted on the belt. Good show though, really glad you appreciate his work.

@WrestleMe Год назад

Hooray! Send Brian our very best, he's a total hero. I now have absolutely no idea what I've bought!

@MrDoingitforthekids Год назад

@@WrestleMe where are you based I might be able to show you the real deal

@ryanoconnor5867 Год назад

I am really enjoying the British Wrestling content boys. I knew nothing about this stuff!

@mattcasey1695 3 месяца назад

The crazy frog £4 / patreon "die in a fire" quip might have been the funniest thing I've heard it about a year. Probably still won't ever pay myself mind.... Cheers guys!

@Kirkland-rv5jf Год назад

As a person from Leicester, I can confirm we would boo anyone from either Ellesmere or London

@hatednyc 11 месяцев назад

SO AWESOME that you bought that. Such a wonderfully underrated channel.

@TheThird1977 Год назад

"Hangs from his head like a ghost's hand" is now my favourite analogy.

@Cheeeesseee3678 21 день назад

A huge round of applause for that über smooth ref slide at 4:01 So much did he defy the laws of friction that you could be forgiven for thinking he'd slid through a patch of leakage from one Big Daddy's internal gravy storage vessels

@LongLiveRockAnRoll Год назад

It's funny how Steve Wright is British, yet his son is the most German looking man in the world, Alex Wright (oh, big bratwurst 😅)

@jonedepth9164 Год назад

I see your Oliver Khan and Alex Wright and raise you Roland Bock

@Adam-kn3tv Год назад

I hear the big bratwurst song every time I think of Alex Wright. Or bratwurst.

@CCFC1878 Год назад

What about Boris Becker?

@jimmanycricket3756 Год назад

Have to say I love these British wrestling videos. Sure I'm not the only one that a being educated by them

@pendafen7405 Год назад

two seconds of Lompard Direct catapulted me back in time emotionally

@PedroBenolielBonito Год назад

The stigma with 'e-begging' is very, very real, and extends to stuff like Patreon and Kickstarter. Thank the early 2010s for that.

@felixgouty Год назад

Hello guys! Just discovered your channel a week ago through Twitter and I really appreciate it! I'm big fan of OSW Review and AE Podcast and I get that same witty and funny vibe from them with Wrestle Me. But I love that with guys I learn so many things in every video, especially the ones on historical bits from British wrestling which I was only a little bit familiar with before that. So thanks for sharing all that knowledge (and, of course, making me laugh while doing it). I had a question if I may. After watching your videos dissecting the works of Rollerball Rocco and now Steve Wright from the 1970s, do you know if their pre-Tiger Mask/Dynamite Kid original style could be itself inspired by others? As a Frenchman, I've seen some archival footage from old French wrestling (who was big on French TV from 1950-1970, kind of just like World of Sports in the UK but with a decade headstart) and wrestlers from the mid 1950s are already pulling moves like the ones Steve Wright pulls here for example and some matches begin to have that frantic pace of Rocco's for instance? Would love to have your view and opinion on that comparison!

@WrestleMe Год назад

Hey! I'm not 100% sure, but there were plenty of trades happening in the 1960s between the two countries - Lord Alfred Hayes is supposed to have spent so long wrestling in France in the early 1960s that he not only spoke French fluently, but introduced the UK to Andre the Giant (when he was Jean Ferre). That period is such a little-recorded time, I don't know if anyone could say for sure!

@felixgouty Год назад

@@WrestleMe You're right. Thanks for answering guys!

@billbird6494 Год назад

@@WrestleMe For another hidden gem, can you do Johnny Smith/John Savage? - Couple of years of WOS, years of Stampede with the Bulldogs, nearly got to replace Dynamite in WWF in 87, went with Dynamite to All Japan, stayed there for a decade wrestling Misawa and Co, even turned up in ECW a few times in the 90's.

@ifgwelf Год назад

Marc is a legend for buying that belt 😅😅😅

@markwrenn5965 Год назад

That thing is incredible

@MrDoingitforthekids 11 месяцев назад

Not the belt though - he’s my dad the belts in his house and it ain’t going nowhere!

@Toracube Год назад

What a belt!!!! I see you guys putting a documentary together for the BBCon this great stuff.

@AldershotDave Год назад

The bald version of Steve Wright (when he wrestled as "Bull Blitzer") looks like another wrestler, Grasshopper.

@danslider9014 Год назад

Fantastic show. Best wrestling content on the tube

@trunter20 Год назад

Brilliant as ever! Between Wrestle Me! doing World of Sport and Wrestling Bios Reliving the War series I reckon we're absolutely spoilt with amazing content just now ❤

@jeyfromnowhere Год назад

Red-dress grandma is deeper in kayfabe than my 9-year-old nephew.

@pendafen7405 Год назад

she gets it

@PedroBenolielBonito Год назад

6:38 *Secrets of Wrestling Exposed narrator* She's a STUNT GRANNY!

@wbcwinnipegbeltcollector Год назад

As a Canadian lump who couldn't bump, My trainer for a session or 2 was Leo London he stretched the heck out of me, and told me to go home and watch world of sport as it was both contemporary and a relic of the past needless to say 1 concussion later I was good being a spectator But forever I wondered what he ment by that, and i believe these videos are exactly what he wanted me to watch Needless to say 1 concussion later I have a deeper appreciation for the graps but my goodness this WoS stuff is magic like a weird alien subculture of wrestling I never would have seen otherwise, that I thank you for

@Dr.JeremyDunks Год назад

I'm still trying to get my head around Debbie Harry wrestling from the last episode

@TranceMasterJack Год назад

Yeah that was hot wasn't it?

@devious187 Год назад

Well I'm now a convert, Goldbelt is awesome... Britain's Harley Race lol

@thekev506 Год назад

This will sound admittedly mental, and it definitely needs more research, but i think Steve Wright is the current major of Warrington

@jimmanycricket3756 Год назад

Fiberbrass

@WrestleMe Год назад

Hahahaha

@nichhodge8503 Год назад

I can imagine Chris Benoit saying to Alex Wright one night backstage at Nitro “I wrestled your dad several years ago. God you’re making me feel old now fuck off you German Nazi prick!” And when Disco Inferno & Alex Wright joined up as a tag team Chris Benoit would say to Alex “So what’s your tag team’s name…Saturday Nazi Fever!”

@Jayce_Alexander Год назад

These World of Sports videos have been a treat. Thanks for shining a light on an often forgotten, and frankly criminally underrated part of wrestling history.

@stingray4real 10 дней назад

Steve Wright was trained by Ted Betley who also trained The Dynamite Kid and Davey Boy Smith.

@stephenberry7876 Год назад

Like a witch has done a spell on am onion ..brilliant

@flatliner3802 Год назад

Hell of a purchase well done 👍🏼

@kurtvanderbogarde8402 Год назад

Steve Wright actually went on to have a World Mid Heavyweight Championship title run, beating Marty Jones on ITV in 1987. Unfortunately he did so incognito in the guise of German skinhead character Bull Blitzer and mostly using rulebreaking rather than his skills (which were still in excellent shape). Furthermore he failed to show for Jones's return match for the belt, so Jones ended up beating a young Owen Hart to win the vacant title on TV later that year.

@simonwelford6202 Год назад

Brilliant looking back , but you two crease me😂😂

@danielcraig4974 Год назад

Oh yes, more World Of Sport

@jackdeedman5344 Год назад

I wish he was my Dad.. and me Mum!

@MrDoingitforthekids 11 месяцев назад

He is my dad and it’s great!!

@CamVanDamme Год назад

I really love learning about classic British wrestling with these guys!

@thack57 Год назад

Is my eyesight or could Pete convince people that he is Tony Schiavone's kid?

@ifgwelf Год назад

Ofc Alex Wrights dad is a 10/10 wrassler.

@underwearskids1 Год назад

Bratwurst Wunderkin FTW!!!

@christophergabianelli8305 Год назад

Why is it that men in trunks without knee pads look more naked than an actual naked man? ( Osw review RU-vid brought this up). I can't unsee ir

@pendafen7405 Год назад

male knees are scandalous like womens' ankles

@peace1177 Год назад

The coverage on TWC adverts 😂

@dustincongello5802 Год назад

thats pretty cool you found that belt on ebay....its sad it was able to be bought on ebay for 40bucks...i see the difference in how much more american pro wrestling cares about their history ...im happy you do so much brithish wrestling shows cause its still apart of wrestling history and we should be treating the history all as a whole instead of just careing about the country we came from because so many american wrestling legends train in all these other coutnries and you cand talk about and american wreslters history without talking about the other countries they fought in

@MrDoingitforthekids 11 месяцев назад

It’s not sad because he hasn’t bought the belt. What they bought for 40 bucks - more in sterling - is a belt made by some fan back in the day. Brian Maxine is my dad the belt, cloaks, crowns even the sceptre he had are still in his house - do you really think that after all those years fighting for it he’d put it on eBay for 40 quid

@dustincongello5802 11 месяцев назад

@@MrDoingitforthekids yea i do especially if drugs are involved. addicts will sell their most valued things for a single hit ....im not saying thats the case. and i dont know if it is the real belt or if what your saying is true either way if it was the real deal then thats sad

@unusedsub3003 Год назад

I'm new to this channel, but I absolutely love it! Anyone know when and where the live event is?!

@WrestleMe Год назад

You can see Marc & Pete's lovely faces LIVE AND IN THE FLESH at the London Podcast Festival this September! More info here!!: www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/comedy/wrestle-me-4/

@wbcwinnipegbeltcollector Год назад

I must say tuning in every couple days to see the subsciber count go up warms my heart Here since 8k 🤪

@mattpenny6554 Год назад

Fantastic video you beauties.

@pendafen7405 Год назад

11:12 "Be lucky. And if you can't be lucky, top yourself." - David Hayman, in the film 'Twin Town'

@folkiebassplayer7366 9 месяцев назад

Did I imagine it, or did I see Brian Maxine sing with Fairport Convention at Cropredy in the early 80's?

@Dr.Quarex 5 месяцев назад

Oh man, I lived across the street from DeMontfort Hall when studying abroad the University of Leicester and saw Henry Rollins there. Not sure whether that show or this one had more angry square-jawed men mean mugging

@Channelnem Год назад

Can we have the Wrestle Me theme tune as a polyphonic ringtone, please

@brianwarden7250 Год назад

My mother thought Steve Wright was adorable.

@troy801 Год назад

Steve Wright love songs 🎵

@pendafen7405 Год назад

This entire video had me so baffed until I realised the wrestler is a different fella to the deeJAY

@MedalWelder 9 месяцев назад

Alex Wright is the best wrestler that ever came out of WCW.people who hate on him are just jealous of his dancing ability

@OverKill515 Год назад

I'd be beyond elated to be seated anywhere near those ladies in the front row.

@stephenberry7876 11 месяцев назад

I love it when you find these jems

@nicolemerrill9167 Год назад

Awesome find

@markwrenn5965 Год назад

Holy cow, that belt plate is AMAZING

@MrDoingitforthekids 11 месяцев назад

Not the belt I can come on the show and show them the real deal but they can’t have it it’s my dads and he’d never sell it

@SteeleZack Год назад

Brian Maxine = Harley Race + Jon Moxley/Dean Ambrose 's haircut

@chrisorcsi7149 Год назад

The guy on the right looks like Tim Roth

@missmummy25 Год назад

Great episode. Keep tgese WOS ones coming guys

@MeMe-td1ye Год назад

Love this channel.

@kurtvanderbogarde8402 Год назад

Steve Wright's younger brother Bernie Wright was another promising young prospectin the early 80s. Check his match with John Naylor. Then he came back from a trip to Stampede in about '83 with a Mr T/Road Warrior Animal hairdo and calling himself Bearcat Wright and breaking all the rules. He eventually suffered a humiliating TV tag loss to Big Daddy, after which he straightened out again and went back to being plain Bernie Wright, having no nonsense matches with people like Ray Robinson in ITV's final years.

@Dr.Quarex 5 месяцев назад

Also I SWEAR the people who bought ringtones or did other similar phone microtransactions have to be a different generation from the ones who exist now, despite logically them being the same; I absolutely, positively never knew a single person who had a ringtone that was anything but "doodle deet deet doot" generic Nokia nonsense in the 2000s, and my friends went from late teenagers to near-30 at that point so I do not think I was in the wrong demographic or anything. There simply must be people who love giving small amounts of money out on a regular basis but I do not know who they are

@PedroBenolielBonito Год назад

So I am curious - did wrestlers cut promos in 1970s Britain? Is 'Goldbelt' going to come back next week and claim he's still undefeated or whatever, conveniently glossing over the lucky win, so he can get heat?

@WrestleMe Год назад

Nope, promos weren't really something the Brits did! They had to rely on the commentator Kent Walton to get everything across

@MrDoingitforthekids 11 месяцев назад

@@WrestleMe didn’t need to millions of viewers on the tv every week and the old man could sell out the Albert hall. Not forgetting 1970’s technology wasn’t like it is now.

@emperortrevornorton3119 11 месяцев назад

Dude most people in the 70's 19 or 20 years old started to look more like me a 31 year old who's biggest athletic accomplishment is being able to handstand push-ups 200 pounds 15 times can even do 2 one handed

@pjsretrogamesmusicandwrass5795 Год назад

Gotta love those catch-as-catch nip-ups ...

@vjacheslavdvorc Год назад

22 July, Saturday... Saturday Wright Fever.

@set1237 Год назад

Alex Wright's dad?!

@joshuaDstarks Год назад

It’s crazy isn’t it?

@gavinreid8937 Год назад

With NXT UK in mothballs , isnt ITV WoS missing an opportunity by not having a british wrestling show.

@pmc8451 Год назад

They actually did bring it back about 3 years ago after NXT UK launched and it was absolute dogshit. Mainly because it was being produced by modern day ITV. It was worse than TNA

@jackdeedman5344 Год назад

I want it I want it I want it!!!

@bbanzai444 4 месяца назад

yeah, he looks way different without the receding hairline curly hair, and facial hair. great comedian though. king of the one liners!

@PedroBenolielBonito Год назад

Really? Alex Wright is this guy's son?

@MR-in8bl Год назад

So that was the centerpiece of the strap?? Beautiful buckle/centerpiece.

@MrDoingitforthekids 11 месяцев назад

No it wasn’t. It is some fan memorabilia. Brian Maxine is my dad the real belt - not the original one which was “stolen” from the dressing room is still in his house. I can come on the show and prove it - look at the photos on the internet it’s obvious it’s nit the same

@normathomas9391 Год назад

What about Brains brother Buddy Ward ( then went on under the name of Ko jack not 100% sure ..

@MrDoingitforthekids 11 месяцев назад

True - he did. The first wrestling bout my dad did was to fill in for Alfie because he couldn’t make it. Dad was a boxer, said he hated the bought got a few rounds in so punched the opponent and knocked him out, got disqualified, crowd went mad - legend born

@zetetick395 Год назад

What does it say on Maxine's guitar? Can anyone tell? 15:58

@MrDoingitforthekids 11 месяцев назад

Ribbon Of Stainless Steel - his latest album

@zetetick395 11 месяцев назад

@@MrDoingitforthekids Thanks man! 😸_👍

@AldershotDave 6 месяцев назад

The MC says that Steve Wright is 18.

@pooddescrewch8718 Год назад

1960s and 1970s American Territorial wrestling was talent heavy from bottom of the card to the top too . Everyone could work . Everyone

@puplife9651 Год назад

Dude’s in the commercial bumping their nose wanting nose candy back in the 70’s of all times 😂 priceless

@pooddescrewch8718 Год назад

I am only here for British wrestling . Seriously . I cannot be bothered with anything newer than 1995

@Lualua25able Год назад

Haunted hair!!!!!!😂

@shock_n_Aweful 4 месяца назад

This old style worked because the audience didn't know it was a work yet.

@pmc8451 2 дня назад

It worked because punches and kicks etc weren’t allowd in British wrestling. It makes this kind of fight a lot more feasible, it doesn’t look a millions miles away from a genuine wrestling match.

@shock_n_Aweful 2 дня назад

@@pmc8451 if that were true then the strong style stuff some Japanese promotions do would be just as popular all over.

@shock_n_Aweful 2 дня назад

@@pmc8451 then why isn't the Japanese strong style that looks just as close to MMA just as popular? There were enough people back then that still thought it was all legit.

@markwrenn5965 Год назад

Maybe not a fire, but at least a horrible drowning accident. How DARE you