It was a different time for Brits back then. We wanted the world to know that we were tolerant of races & creeds, and what better way, than to 'whoop it up' for a tremendously gifted athlete, such as Sammy Lee. Warmly, Jervis Cottonbelly
Kung Fu was huge in the UK in the 1970s the Lee name was a good thing to have, there was a wrestler called Grasshopper too I remember. The tv series called Kung Fu, the song Kung Fu Fighting, Kung Fu schools could be found in every town.
Unusual as expected Cooper to win, or not as the case was, may have seen ‘Tiger Mask” before, he was a very fit man, putting Cyanide to shame, certainly worth watching this on RUclips 👌.
I remember watching Cooper live in Eastbourne in 1986 ... he was fighting such a legend as Big Daddy ... would I travel England a little before, I would have watched the future Tiger Mask ,,,,
i remember watching Sid Cooper live in 1986 , in Eastbourne, he wrestled Big Daddy that time...and then had an argument with a lady in the crowd ... :))).... I never thought he could have fought my favourite satoru sayama....
The man we know as Tiger Mask I, moved to England very early in his career as England was the best place to get a wrestling education. Wrestling was a hugely popular attraction in the UK until the 90s. Nowadays it's mainly American stuff on television. Live shows exist but not to the same degree that they did. Thanks Technology for allowing us to communicate without a language barrier 🙌
There have been some absolute legend technical wrestlers over the years but Tiger Mask is possibly the best - the other is Dynamite Kid - and there are some great matches between the two.
I never knew about British rasslin. I grew up watching Georgia Championship Wrestling during the late 70's and early 80's. And thought that was the best. This is awesome. P.S. Les Thornton was my favorite British rassler.
Sent there for seasoning, as he was small even for Japan. Also wrestled in Mexico, under his own name, and was NWA Middleweight champion. Then went back to New Japan and became Tiger Mask.
Funny thing- the predominantly white, working class audience for British wrestling ALWAYS cheered for a black or asian wrestler against the white guy. Maybe a BNP supporter could explain this.
Promoter was Max Crabtree possibly. Tiger Mask was regularly on TV back then, very popular with the locals. It was on mainstream channel ITV every saturday.
No one wrote anything in British wrestling. It was broadcast and presented as legitimate sport, so there were no "angles". Kent Walton was the commentator. 👍
@tigerboy1966 The promoters were fearful of promoting black wrestlers as bad guys for fear of causing riots. There were a few though, Dave Bond and Johnny Kincaid for example. And they were booed and got the odd racial comment from the crowd (which had to be bleeped when they showed them on TWC). Kendo Nagasaki was basically a Japanese character even though it was a white guy from Stoke playing him.
Good old Sid Smashing heel Never understood why he wasn't given more of the limelight than lesser-skilled men. The ways of the promoters are Machiavellian. Why the F**k would anybody choose to be a professional wrestler? And have your body smashed up for £5 a time for 24/7 (in those days) WTF??!!!
@iknowme Just watched it. I think, anyway. "DaidoJuku vs Shooto"? Not exactly impressive, no, but to be fair, it was one-on-one and on a mat. If buddy had three buddies, and Sayama had some ropes...
Sayama was lightyears ahead of his time. What a legend.
すげぇ、こんな貴重な動画ありがとう！
佐山さんは観客を魅了することには
世界一。未だに右に出るものは
居ませんね～！流石😹
What a champion! Sayama is a legend!
Great video!
Thank you!
鳥肌が立つほどの身体能力。まさに虎のような身のこなし。後にタイガーマスクとして抜擢されるのも当然。
海外修行中の初代タイガーの映像が観られるのはとても貴重です。多分ヨーロッパ、イギリスでの試合かな？ブルース・リーの映画が全世界を席巻している時だけに、彼にあやかっての黄色のジャージ姿。東洋人なのにベビーフェイスなんですね！相手のヒールの選手も受け身も上手くて百戦錬磨って分かります。
This match was broadcast on British National Television in 1980. He was billed as a relative of Bruce Lee if you can believe it!
身のこなし一つ一つが美しい、
抜群の運動神経、きっと他の競技をしても素晴らしいと思う、天性の才能、天才ね
イギリスの人達は日本のタイガーマスクを見て、「あれっ❗サミーじゃん」とお見通しだったんでしょうね。
Thanks for the upload, great match!
ドロップキックが凄い。相手の頭より上にいってる。
It was a different time for Brits back then. We wanted the world to know that we were tolerant of races & creeds, and what better way, than to 'whoop it up' for a tremendously gifted athlete, such as Sammy Lee.
Warmly,
Jervis Cottonbelly
What planet are you living on, you think you speak for all Brits - what a narcissist
おじさんの凄さがわかってこそホンモノ
コミカルな選手ほど隠れシューターだったりする。
凄い！ 天才
Brian Blessed's sitting in the front row.
Props to Sid Cooper for being so unselfish here.
Who in the world clicks thumbs down on a Tiger Mask match?
Kung Fu was huge in the UK in the 1970s the Lee name was a good thing to have, there was a wrestler called Grasshopper too I remember. The tv series called Kung Fu, the song Kung Fu Fighting, Kung Fu schools could be found in every town.
Easy to see the face was Sammy and the heel was Cooper of course as he always was.
これってまさかサミーリーのデビュー戦じゃないの？だとしたらすごい貴重な映像！
Is this Sammy Lee’s 1st fight in the UK? Thanks for the great video anyway!
No he had a good run in the UK. He was already established by this point. I remember he was a bit of a hero to the kids.
@@chriswidnes5315
日本と同じ!!
Unusual as expected Cooper to win, or not as the case was, may have seen ‘Tiger Mask” before, he was a very fit man, putting Cyanide to shame, certainly worth watching this on RUclips 👌.
I remember watching Cooper live in Eastbourne in 1986 ... he was fighting such a legend as Big Daddy ... would I travel England a little before, I would have watched the future Tiger Mask ,,,,
He's even got the Enter The Dragon Shaolin sparring scene bounce. The attention to detail...
How cool the Tiger Step is!
Great "heel" cyanide sid..great stuff.💪
シドのおっさんは佐山と試合前に完璧に打ち合わせ済って感じだ。
Because the audience love sport and beautiful action and they know wrestling so they are with the best in technics
i remember watching Sid Cooper live in 1986 , in Eastbourne, he wrestled Big Daddy that time...and then had an argument with a lady in the crowd ... :))).... I never thought he could have fought my favourite satoru sayama....
Oh yeah dude 😎 great match 🙂
これはイギリスで修行してたころなのかー
イギリスはあまりショーぽいプロレスは流行らなかったと聞いていたが、めちゃくちゃショーだな。アメリカンスタイル
The man we know as Tiger Mask I, moved to England very early in his career as England was the best place to get a wrestling education. Wrestling was a hugely popular attraction in the UK until the 90s. Nowadays it's mainly American stuff on television. Live shows exist but not to the same degree that they did.
Thanks Technology for allowing us to communicate without a language barrier 🙌
This guy Lee was awesome
Good old Cyanide Sid!
That dropkick by Sammy missed by miles never got close to touching sids head
Does it matter?
@@andrewwilliams7501 no it doesn't Andrew was good entertainment mate
sammy lee ... game of death outfit
Co-Star Actor Award to Cooper!
対戦相手は、ダイアン津田みたいな叫び声だな！
There have been some absolute legend technical wrestlers over the years but Tiger Mask is possibly the best - the other is Dynamite Kid - and there are some great matches between the two.
First fall in just 39 seconds of round one!
佐山氏の若い頃かあ、今やスタイルも変わってしまってｗｗ
しかし、相手のレスラーも巧いね。
おまえの体型も変わったろw
Sammy! You are making me laugh with wrestling techniques 😄🤣😄
Sammy lee is become TigerMask in Japan.
Not a BNP member. But the British have always loved an underdog.
I never knew about British rasslin. I grew up watching Georgia Championship Wrestling during the late 70's and early 80's. And thought that was the best. This is awesome. P.S. Les Thornton was my favorite British rassler.
You are so right. Now we are talking wrestling 🔥
Georgia wrestling 🔥.
Like most of these British wrestlers, Sid was a great shooter and hooker in his own right, trained by Dave Taylor's dad who was the best of his era.
I didn't know Sayama (Tiger Mask) wrestled in England! Amazing!
Sent there for seasoning, as he was small even for Japan. Also wrestled in Mexico, under his own name, and was NWA Middleweight champion. Then went back to New Japan and became Tiger Mask.
凄い。
Lee isn't from Tokyo. He's from Yamaguchi.
Jack Hargreaves’s from How doing the announcements
ほぼタイガーマスクの攻撃パターン❗
Good Job Sid Cooper!
Well done Sammy lee
ムキムキマンはイマイチだけど、このオジサンと横縞パンツは上手いよ。
Funny thing- the predominantly white, working class audience for British wrestling ALWAYS cheered for a black or asian wrestler against the white guy. Maybe a BNP supporter could explain this.
who was the promotor of this match in london? tv? thank u 4 upload from japan.
Promoter was Max Crabtree possibly. Tiger Mask was regularly on TV back then, very popular with the locals. It was on mainstream channel ITV every saturday.
@@cjddalton The promoter of this match was Dale Martin. His name is on the turnbuckle pads.
Dale Martin was the promoter. This match aired on ITV in the UK on October 11th, 1980 & took place in Southend, London.
All the old ladies believe in the old adage, "The darker the meat, the richer the gravy!" :P
Hey can someone tell me what show call.
クーパーさんにも拍手！
Sayama kinda looks like San Antonio mayor Julian Castro. Nice.
2:01 ドリフだｗドリフ
Two contrasting styles of genius.
Cooper - genius? In some other universe, maybe...
So Sammy Lee is from Toyko, and the "tough guy from Leeds" is from Soho (which is in London)? GG, guy-who-writes-the-on-screen-stuff. :p
No one wrote anything in British wrestling. It was broadcast and presented as legitimate sport, so there were no "angles". Kent Walton was the commentator. 👍
God Sid's offense is so f'ing tight. Everything he does looks like hurts so much.
Because it probably did!
It was 1965 to 1988.
結局脱ぐんかい笑
Ka Mo なかなか脱げない、1人で脱げない
@tigerboy1966 The promoters were fearful of promoting black wrestlers as bad guys for fear of causing riots. There were a few though, Dave Bond and Johnny Kincaid for example. And they were booed and got the odd racial comment from the crowd (which had to be bleeped when they showed them on TWC).
Kendo Nagasaki was basically a Japanese character even though it was a white guy from Stoke playing him.
Dave bond and Johnnie Kincaid were bloody good wrestlers to say a racist thing is so wrong
Pfft, the Brits would probably have cheered Adolf Hitler if he was against Sid Cooper or Jim Breaks. :p
A BNP supporter couldn't explain how to spell BNP. That's why he's a BNP supporter.
Good old Sid Smashing heel Never understood why he wasn't given more of the limelight than lesser-skilled men. The ways of the promoters are Machiavellian.
Why the F**k would anybody choose to be a professional wrestler? And have your body smashed up for £5 a time for 24/7 (in those days) WTF??!!!
That's an old spelling of Tokyo..
sid at his best 2 min great stuff
リング小さめ？
@iknowme Just watched it. I think, anyway. "DaidoJuku vs Shooto"? Not exactly impressive, no, but to be fair, it was one-on-one and on a mat. If buddy had three buddies, and Sayama had some ropes...
1r：フェイントのローリング･ソバットからブルー・ス・リー氏ばりの蹴りで翻弄
メキシコで体得したフライング・ボディー・アタック炸裂
速攻でフォール勝ち
Kicking in the kidney ok. But closed fist isn't!?
Yes Rules.
Lee,😁😆😄😃😁
Sammy Lee would whip Bruce Lee, Brian Lee, Cung Le and Chun Li at the same time. It's a fact.
exactLEE
@tigerboy1966 I doubt it.
Un genio del ring
タリー•包•••、もとい、タリー•ホー•ケイ戦が視たいwww
#皮かむり
@Inediblehulk have you seen Sayama face an actual martial arts expert? There's something on YT, look it up, Sayama gets schooled.
haha Tokyo was misspelled at 00:58
ネタに走った？
Fred blassie
1.50- that's racist.
No it’s not.
He could indeed look like Bruce Lee from a distance.
ザコシの若い時かと思ったわ‼️
リング狭くない？😉
sid cooper... what a waste.
Sayama is a real legend.
Toyok ッて何？？
凄い動画ですね。初めて見ました。佐山がサミーリーで闘っていたころの動画じゃないですか。動きがタイガーマスクですね。それにしても相手は弱いね。
ヒール役だから受け身が上手いんだよ。
@tigerboy1966 Just like here in the southeasten US. Black guys or foreigners(not Russians) were popular.