The Tragic Story of Wrestling's First Great Foreign Heel 

This content is incredible. The way you list the source and give a context for the time are just a level above.

I'd love to see more stories from the pioneer era of wrestling.

Moved beyond all expectations by this story and the wonderful way it was told. Phenomenal work, Kim.

Wrestlers back in the day had no definition because they'd not pump themselves full of steroids. That's what a strong man should look like. THAT'S PEAK STRONG NATURAL.

A sad story, beautifully told. Thank You Kim.

One of the thing I hate most about wrestling, and it's a little bit better nowadays. Is when someone dies for in real life, turn it into a storyline, or this act in storyline always annoyed me.

Brilliant documentrys this channel is gonna be big. What I love about your channels is you don't get click and subscribe every 2 minutes nothing more tacky and off putting then that most should take note, keep up the great work

Great video i love your wrestling analysis, RIP Yosuf ☪

Always awesome Kim your videos are just so perfectly put to gether . Thank you for the amount of effort you put in

Thanks for bringing this story, I didn't know wrestling was so old

Glad your back your videos are awesome

as i understand the lewis match, the strangle hold was allowed by yusuf didn't release it when the ref call it, so he lost on a foul. that was considered the money match. yusuf agreed to wrestle again, with betting off, and ate lewis up in two straight falls, taking the match in straight falls. but the betting was paid out to lewis based on first match. if you go to the day after the accounts you get a more mundane & accurate picture imo

I really like it when you use the full opening title card at the start of your docs

Such a dope channel! Bound to catch on big soon

Wonder why the turk won so much and so dominantly, was there a plan for him to return down the line? Did he really just beat everyone and leave?

Your channel is high quality, you speak well, your voice is not annoying or lame, you don't interrupt the video to show your face up-close, no non-sense top 10 this top 20 that. Just excellent information about wrestling and it looks like you've done true research for the videos!

Fantastic content. I had to Google Evan "Strangler" Lewis, because at first I was thinking I was mishearing you say Ed "Strangler" Lewis. Nope! apparently, (allegedly), they are two different people..😆

I've been subscribed to your main channel for years. As a Turkish man, I'm pleasantly surprised that you covered Yusuf İsmail's life story. The video is perfect except for two minor incorrect pronunciations. haha (The Turkish S is pronounced like the English S, not as a SH sound, and the Turkish C is pronounced like the English J, not like a K. 35:33)

Another phenomenal video from this channel. Well done! :)

he is still very popular in turkey almost everybody know him at least heard of his name

Well done, an interesting story

Subbed, different, informative, lovely.

I guess you can say that he worked himself into a shoot whilst drowning. What an interesting man.

Fantastic video

Brilliant channel mate! You have a new subscriber in me

brady said yusuf made $1500 a month working for brady. but that's according to brady. i tend to believe it but who knows. brady reports the $25 a week from pierre you mentioned

He's in the Book of Lists, that's how I first heard of him.

I fell asleep watching this. I hope everything turned out well for the dude.

Evan 'strangler' lewis? now that's a name! :)

Great video! How do you get the hardcam view of Fire Pro instead of the iso cam?

Yusuf Ismail the flyest man of all time

Woo reuploads!

So, how's that World Japan video coming along?

Can you do a video on the 4 pillars of heaven

Oh, dear God, you're doing 1890s wrestling... I fuckin love you! Please do the original World Heavyweight [Collar & Elbow] Champion: Col. James H. McLaughlin. If you can go back as far as Milo of Croton, that'd be awesome too, but I mean, I know that'd probably only be like a 3 min video lol. Homer Lane, John McMahon (not related lol), William Muldoon, Thiebaud Bauer, Tom Cannon, William Miller, Evan "Strangler" Lewis. Sorry, got carried away, but I don't really know where to look to learn this stuff, and I've been looking this stuff up for years... I was very impressed with your Vader in AJPW video, man, but I was at work and got distracted before I could subscribe... Thank you, and please keep up the good work!

I love you kim

Ah, yes, casual racism, the foreign heel. Because all the problems of society come from outside, instead of inside [insert nation name].

I will never understand why the English pronunciation of Ismael is "Ishmill". Even when I was studying in England, my full name included Ismael and it was pronounced this way.

Poor guy got exploited even after his tragic death.

Herkesi yenip gitti.koca yusuf.

mate... thats just awful

Women in that ship experienced equality far ahead in time - they were precursors to the feminist utopia!