Oldest Pro Wrestling on Film: Caddock vs Stecher, 1920
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Rare footage from the second Earl Caddock-Joe Stecher match for the professional wrestling world title, January 30th 1920. The match took place at the second Madison Square Garden in New York City. Stecher pinned Caddock in 2:05:00 using a wristlock and his finishing hold, the body scissors. This is perhaps the earliest professional wrestling match of which film survives. Some have said that Caddock-Stecher was the last great "shoot" (real) match for a world title, but others argue that this style was simply a more traditional way of "working" (performing) than what would soon follow. While it is impossible to determine when professional wrestling became purely performance, clearly by this point in its history match outcomes were largely predetermined. In the coming months, "Toots" Mondt and Billy Sandow would reshape the sport into a style of performance virtually identical to what we know today.The copyright of this work, registered or published prior to 1923, has expired. As a result, this work has entered into the public domain.
Canal: Sports
Añadido: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Autor: tranquileye
Duración: 25:50
Puntuación: 4.66
Reproducciones: 102847
Etiquetas: 1920 caddock championship professional shoot stecher worked wrestling
Comentarios
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AgApE010 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Great upload!This is how wrestling still should be, not the crap today where the wrestlers talk trash to each other more than wrestle. And when two of them finally do get in the ring, every wrestler and his mother come out of the locker room to interuppt the match hitting their opponents with everything but the kitchen sink.Although entertaining at times, the sport has lost all dignity.
ewhhdtd (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
we want tables!!!! clap,clap,clap clap clap
Weaponhead7 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
What a gem this is, great upload.
9InchWarrior (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
This is Terry Funk's first retirement match
TheEnigma26 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Look! Shawn Michaels is coming ou to be the special ref in the match!
htownnigggga (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
lol i think i see undertaker in the background...
MrBeverlyHills (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
This was the first time Ric Flair and Hulk Hogan met each other in the squared circle.
GamingPalooza (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
it was copyrighted in 1923, filmed in 1920... ehhh
nico90000 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
this sucks i want HD!!!
athenieus (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Looks like a Steiner Brother's training video.
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