Wild
Wild Wrestling: Outrageous Matches from the '50s,
'60s, '70s, and '80s A weird trip back in time
takes you to the nights when fans of professional
wrestlers yelled their lungs out in support of
Gorgeous George, Haystacks Calhoun, and Andre
the Giant.
Wrestling fans of today, who spend as much time
trying to follow the soap opera story lines as
watching the matches, may at first find some of
the classic matches on this tape to be fairly
bland. In the old days there were no fancy
pyrotechnics, the costumes were seldom more than
a pair of trunks and some boots, and the action
was usually filmed (and televised) in glorious
black and white. But while wrestlers in the old
days wore less glitter, the early grapplers knew
how to use gimmicks to draw a crowd. The greatest
showman of them all, Gorgeous George, whose
flowing locks and snobby demeanor couldn't mask
his dirty tactics, is seen during his prime in
the 1950s. A punishing match from the
not-so-distant past shows a young Randy Savage
getting mauled within a steel cage by Jerry
Lawler. And to satisfy the "something to
offend everyone" quota, there is even a
bizarre match from the 1970s between two female
little people, one of whom is dressed as
Pocahontas--Amazon.com
Starring: Gorgeous
George, Haystacks Calhoun, and Andre the Giant.
Approximate
running time: 60 minutes
Rating: NR
Release Date: 2000
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