Jim Cornette on Lou Thesz & St. Louis History
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- From Episode 397 of the Jim Cornette Experience
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My grandma lived on the same street as Lou Thesz in St. Louis. When she revealed that to me, the pride for wrestling just increased that much more.
There's a group for Thesz on Facebook where one of his sons interacts sometimes. I remember him saying one time when asked if he wanted to be a wrestler like his dad, he responded that Lou always encouraged his children to find what they did well and to enjoy life and work.
Lou's great-grandson is named after him too, Aloysius.
Herb Simmons as lous ashes and thesz belt.
St Louis is the capital of wrestling. Wrestling at the Chase, the Checkerdome, the Kiel Auditorium are all classic wrestling venues. Thank you St Louis for all the memories in all the stadiums when I was a kid.
Lmao your not old enough to remember Wrasslin at the Chase. But, thanks for mentioning those old brick buildings
@@aron5411 thank you for the compliment but yes I am and I went there a few times.
@@joemomma3208 so your over 60. Because the Chase wrasslin shut down in 82. WWF started doing wrasslin there in 83.
@@aron5411 I was a kid in 82 so thank you and nope I’m not 60 but I’m old enough to have been there so bye bye.
@@aron5411 doesn’t mean he wouldn’t have learned about it, did he say he specifically went there?
I am STL born, raised and still here. Love hearing old stories about wrestling here.
i used to love Food truck Fridays over in all those awesome parks.
Welcome to the club brother 👍👍🤼
RIC FLAIR SHOUTED OUT LOU THESZ & HARLEY RACE ON THE NWA 73 PPV ON THE FITE TV APP FROM ST LOUIS!
Native St Louisan here and these are great memories of the love of wrestling my dad and I shared!
My youngest son's grandmother always talked about the chase back in the 60s
Jim bringing up Nixon saying sock it to me are the little things that take this podcast from 5 stars to 6!
If it was in the Tokyo Dome, it'd be Seven Stars.
You know it's going to be good if Lou Thesz or St. Louis is in the title. Let alone both!
Lou's an absolute legend. A real shooter, too. Too bad we don't have any more real shooters who can keep things in order these days.
We do. Brock Lesnar. But his role as champion and protecting the title wouldn't be the same as Thesz's was.
This off topic, but your uploads on monster trucks rule
@@stb2017 Thank you!
Lou Thesz with Ed Strangler Lewis in his corner, two of my favourite wrestlers of all time.
Evan Strangler Lewis is my favorite.
Ed Strangler lewis vs (my favorite wrestler) Jim Londos!
What a match
@@savagedarksider5934 Never saw him rassle
@@paliossuperas3691 Is that the match on youtube?
@@mritchie85 yes, you can find it easily on RUclips
St.Louis native and huge wrestling fan. Thanks for this Jim!
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Arguably the greatest wrestler ever, a shooter of the past who also drew the professional template for decades to come. Not sure he had Olivier and the Bucks in mind, but nevertheless.
Lou Thesz has an instructional on here with legit hooks and holds, the guy was legit, watch his match with Rikidozan great match
Went to lots of wrestling as a kid at the chase and Kiel auditorium and old St. Louis checkerdome
4:55 Kinda Gives you a totally different visual on Charley from Starkville!!
I just love this artwork of a colourful Thesz as a Globetrotter.
Wrestling history? *grabs popcorn*
Lmao I was watching a jim cornette video and I got a notification for this Video Any coincidence.
Looking forward to Jim Cornette Reviewing AEW All Out and the Debuts of Bryan Danielson & Adam Cole … 🍿. 👀
He is trying to find some small mistake to crap over entire PPV.
Focus f stick
There are listings for a Robert Thesz and a Patrick Thesz on LinkedIn and a couple of IMDB credits for a Jeff Thesz. No guarantee any are Lou Thesz's children. However, I did come across some sad news. One of his grandchildren (Jeff's son, Louis Jeffrey Thesz) died in what may have been a construction accident, October 18th, 1999, age 26. Lou, Fredda and Jeff were alive at the time.
Leo Nomelini was the 49ers star defender in the 1950s. That's why he was such a draw in San Francisco. It'd be like if Hogan or Flair fought Ronnie Lott in the 80s.
Before Mike Tyson Lou Thez was the baddest man on the planet!! He was a True Legit Hooker & Shooter 🤼🤼🤼
I recently seen an old documentary that had him and his sons . At the time I would think they were in their young to mid teens
When it Was Grapplers
At one point... Lou awarded this belt to Takada @ UWFi-Japan... then he and Gary Albright traded that belt back and forth for a while... I broke into the business late 80s/early 90s originally under Samoan Samu and Gary Albright along w/ Kokina... later I trained with Billy Robinson for UWFi... there were photos of Takada wearing Lou's belt in the dojo they had stateside in Murfreesboro/Nashville Tenn... I trained there with Gino Caruso, Damien Stone/Little Guido, Gene Lydick and Billy Scott... Shenji Sasasaki was there also.
I had never seen the nixon 'sock it to me?'.
Quick, someone mash it up with brock lesnars Lets Do THIS?
St. Louis is hosting AEW's next PPV Full Gear in early November.
Can't wait for Jim's review of Jericho vs MJF!
HHH gonna wind up like Milton in office space. In the basement holding on to his flair belt.
HHH: "I'm tha Game...uhhh...they took my stapler... uhhhh.."
Love these old history lessons so to speak. Interesting, no company today could put up those kind of numbers anywhere in this country or the world. Luther is my all-time favorite, in my mind the greatest of all time and he could’ve dominated the UFC as well. Dick the bruiser another guy an incredible draw great character and a legit bad ass from what I’m told. But in my mind once again I’ll say it does is the man and always will be no one could touch him then or now. Thanks again this was great.
Yeah Thesz definitely could of been a good MMA fighter most likely at 205, Danny Hodge too.
We need more questions for the Drive Thu I need some new stories, opinions and watch a longs to make my day at work pass by faster than the AEW reviews honestly.
Lou Thesz a true legend who I would've love to seen him work current stars in Bryan Danielson, Omega, Chris Hero and Angle. Rest In Peace
I'd love to have seen Thesz against these guys who came after him: Kurt Angle, Bryan Danielson, Kazushi Sakuraba, Takada, Dean Malenko, Eddie Guerrero, Chris Benoit, Ken Shamrock, Gary Albright, Satoru Sayama and Ric Flair.
The Triple H comments didn't age well
We beed an update! That would be great to hear an interview with one of the Thesz children.
Jim you need to come up with a history of wrestling segment everyday.
Didn't Lou Thesz let UWFi use his belt for their main championship? Maybe Nobuhiko Takada still owns it.
Yes
He did say maybe Japan.
they made a replication based on lou's belt
Lou took his belt back when they brought vader in
They was the greatest ever a legit hooker & shooter that could tie anybody in knots easy!! He was the kinda man that could only lose a match if he wanted to 🤼💪.
None of these jobbers today would be fit enough to tie his shoes!
My friend Mike dated a girl named Charlie. And we are from NE Pennsylvania. It is an usual name for a woman though
Charlie yeah her parents called her Chuck.
Ok, I had to look up the Richard Nixon thing, but it is pretty funny.
awesome musing about st. louis days
love what cornette is saying about st. louis mo..and sam muchnick... the awa, and the southern promotions very seldom had a house like st. louis... sam had one city... this why sam was the president of the nwa... he knew what was best for the promotions... work together and protect your cities
A bit late on this but the Thesz children are on Facebook. I believe the eldest Thesz son lost his son in a work accident.
Fans looking for something historically neat -- need to check out "Head over Heels: Remembering Wrestling at the Chase" on the Nine PBS RUclips Channel.
I want to see Cornettes thoughts on how Russo has revealed he's working with WWE again.
Would be funny if USA and/or Fox has a ABSOLUTELY NO RUSSO!!!!! clause like Spike TV did.
Want to see a Nick Khan on a forklift match , oh god please make it happen!!
@@Cruising_On_Lake_Havasoma id love that LOL
@@Irritant1000 should put him in a cage match where you can only fight on top of the cage 🤣.Whoof id pay millions to see him pull a mankind 🤣🤣
@KaneMagus or what?
I always thought it would be interesting if someone interested Vince McMahon’s mother. She’s in her 100s now, but I’m sure she would have some interesting stories about The McMahon family. I would love to hear more about Jess McMahon too!
Hannibal did an interview with Jeff a few years ago
If you watch the aew Press docket after the Pay-Per-View about an hour and 45 minutes in Tony Khan mentions you Jim cornette without saying your name I'm wondering if you have a response to this
I am surprised Cornette didn't watch the NWA PPV. I would have been interested to hear his review on Flair's promo.
I was at the all women's PPV and it was really good. Some of the women on that card make WWE women's wrestlers look like a bunch of lingerie models. Oh wait...
Just waiting for the All Out review...
Not the NWA belt Thesz wore.
Did Lou ever have a competitive fight against anyone?
In his book he mentions a few matches that got a little off-script, requiring him to lay down the law. One example was Ralph (Ruffy) Silverstein, who had been a Big Ten collegiate champ. Another was some huge goon in India who he knocked out with a Greco-Roman backdrop. Behind the scenes he had training sessions as a young man with George Tragos, Ad Santel and Joe Stecher, Thesz freely admits that Santel and Stecher could get the better of him.
@@daveconleyportfolio5192 There was talks of Thesz and Rocky Marciano fighting in the 40's, Thesz would of stretched him.
There's a story of Thesz going to a university and dispatching all the lighter weight wrestlers until he came up against heavyweight Don Curtis who took him down instantly, he kept getting the better of Thesz until Thesz started hooking him which was against the rules. Curtis later went to the pros and did say every time he took Thesz down or seemed like he had the advantage he would get caught in a submission.
*blurb* was that a Seinfeld reference again jim?
But who was the first first vice president
Someone gota send this day in history first blow up doll match took place to jim
Any mention of cornys illegitimate son?
Dax Harwood?
Brian Zane? Even jim says he’s his son jokingly but I thought he was from Seattle area
Bruh ~_~;
Don't mind me. Just waiting for Jim to review that smark fest known as All Out 2021.
smark fest?
You say that while wearing your Brock Lesnar 2018 shirt and holding a Roman Reigns figure in the other hand. Go joe to wwe
@@aron5411 butthurt much? 🤣 I haven't watched or given a single cent to WWE in over a decade. Try harder, kid.
@@brandonizaguirre2963 you say that while deleating the pics of natttie and Charlotte Ric flair on your computer. You are such a poser and bad liar
@@aron5411 Yep, you're definitely butthurt. Projection much, bro? lol
wrestling is.. thesz, robinson karl gotch.jack brisco..... wwwf backlund... awa verne gagne.. the rest of wrestler are ... not clowns... just not the rest
Where the all out 2021 videos?
He's probably recording it right now, or maybe not until tomorrow. These videos are usually a couple days behind the actual podcast, which itself is usually a day or two behind what's actually going on.
In other words, probably tomorrow night or Wednesday, though they've been better about getting this stuff online quicker lately.
Wrong jeff
10:12
David Schultz would have destroyed Lou Thesz
Er body waiting im ole Jimmy Cs review of the latest AEW paperview.
Velveteen Dream the money he would have made Billions for the company .still will he sticks out his Chrisma. U will how so many ppl can't see the truth an what this character will do for wrestling.the day the fans can petition to get a wrestler off a card because of the heat he generates is when wrestling truly is dead. Thank u Rob Fury for trying. SWF how young he was he was never protected by wwe no good or strong mentors. Jim I see what u say about Shawn triple h an the ppl they had around nxt. Velveteen Dream is going to be a mega Star. U suppose to be saving the business Jim do something
I thought a velveteen dream was an expensive ice cream bar?
@@falsedemocracy83 no ice cream bar a Prodigy gifted with talent. U ever seen Micheal Jackson perform in his prime, u ever seen Micheal Jordan win a championship, Epic .the man is on another level by himself Velveteen is the Future of professional wrestling. If AEW gets him. Wwe Game over. And I wanted Jim Cornette to come out of retirement with his knowledge an train him to take on the elite Kenny ,Brian, Bray , Osprey it will work. Just being in the ring with him his persona Chrisma will Generate stars just being in the ring with Velveteen Dream. They would have to come up with a new name but one that still fit his persona when he was wwe Velveteen Dream it can be done. I know. He would have to be protected jealousy is real.
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@@smokeysalmon68 sounds like you are gay yourself
@@smokeysalmon68 okay McCock lol
Your name confirms that you are and also confirms that you love a good 🐓 jockeying session. I'm sure you've done your fair share 🙄 of "blasting"
@@abrahamramirez8536 I wouldn't be taking the piss out of someone else's name with a name like fucking Abraham 🤣🤣🤣 you got some balls my friend lol