When I was ten years old I met Haystacks Calhoun at Maple Leaf Gardens. He towered over me like a building. He shook my hand or rather he took my hand and engulfed it. He was the biggest person I had ever seen and he is still the biggest person I've ever met. It was almost fifty years ago but I remember it like it was yesterday.
Thank you for uploading. When I was younger I would always watch Superstars of Wrestling. Got to the TV late when this episode was on, so I never saw this part. I tuned in late when Milt Avruskin was doing the solo commentary. He said that George Cannon had been taken to the hospital after Haystack Calhoun came down with a knee instead of a splash. I can't believe that after 36 years I am finally seeing this part of the episode. Thanks so much.
You're kindly welcome! I wish I had the part you describe with Avruskin talking about Cannon going to the hospital. Do you recall what other wrestlers and/or matches you saw on this episode? Please check out some of the other Superstars matches/shows I've posted. Hope they rekindle some great memories for you as this one did!
I don't recall other wrestlers or matches from that episode, but I do recall some of the lead up to that feud. In a post match interview on an earlier episode, Calhoun told Cannon that he only wins matches because he just wrestles the little guys, I think Calhoun said something like you just wrestle the "little bitty guys". Calhoun also argued with Cannon over who was the first of the two to use the Big Splash. Calhoun said he was first, but Cannon responded by saying that when Calhoun first used the move he called it the Pancake, not the Big Splash. I will definitely check out the other videos.
@@KaijuEigaMan88 Really appreciate these. Some of the names I remember are Freddy Blassie, Mil Mascaras, Kenji Shabuya ("I very smart" lol). John Tolos, "Killer" Buddy Austin. I am sure I am not spelling some of these names right. But nice memories watching these with my dad who was a fan. I also remember much earlier Crybaby Cannon matches where when he got hit he would just start crying in the middle of the ring. So silly but so much fun. Lol.
I remember watching this on tv as a kid and seeing those 2 guys matches when they toured the province. About 1000 pounds between the 2 of them. Bobo Brazil, , Edward Carpentier, Sailor White and Hartford Love were some of the others on their shows. How the wrestling business has changed over the last 40 years...and not for the better in many ways.
@@rickrick5041 Sailor was intimidating like Abdullah the Butcher and original Sheik. Me and my folks loved watching Superstars of Wrestling in Sudbury,Ontario Canada.
This was the first I had ever Seen George Cannon as a Face and Haystacks Calhoun as a Heel VERY INTERESTING On Maple Leaf Wrestling Crybaby Cannon has always Managed the Kangaroos!
@@DamonTsekos the first time I ever watched wrestling, November 1970 , right after it was over my dad told me it was fake.but , the point I am making is haystack was always a baby face till this clip.
@@brucesturton8521....The wrestlers are actors first!..It's all make believe, and the wrestlers have a word for it!...It's called Kayfabe!...I bet in real life George Cannon, and Haystacks Calhoun were the best of friends, the same way Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan were!...I used to love Pro Wrestling!..That was before the Internet! Now because of it everything comes out in the open!...Now I don't waste any money and time on it!...I prefer to watch UFC instead where it is very real.....For now!
It is Canada cannons home. The wrestled in the 50s 60s and 70s with haystacks as face and cannon as heel now they are continuing their rivalry in cannons home country with the roles reversed.
It looks like Haystacks really gave it to Crybaby pretty good, and gave him more than he bargained for. I never knew Haystacks could dish out that kind of ruthless punishment to a defenseless man! This was a classic beat down!
This was a few months before Haystacks hung up the o'l Horseshoe for good he retired that same year 1980 from the WWWF due to his Diabetes and being just worn out after almost 25 yrs in the business😢😢😢
Crybaby Cannon was the promoter in the Detroit/Windsor area when I was a kid and first got into wrestling. Used to watch him huckster the shows at Joe Louis and Cobo arenas on Maple Leaf Wrestling (channel 9 CBC) every Sunday morning.
Haystacks never lifted weights but he lifted cows and horses and 2 to 300 lb Haystacks. Haystacks Calhoun as a heel?. I know he didn't stay a heel for long. He always loved the cheers from the fans all over the world.
Me too,good old Channel 62. I remember when Cannon would do the local promo's during the commercial times and lie about popular wrestlers from AWA, NWA and WWF And how they were going to be on his next show,and how to write fan mail to them at WGPR. Then you would tune in and see sailor white and a out of shape guy with a mask on being passed off as mil mascaras
dynamo805 Avruskin was on his way back to the commentary booth after flipping the coin, so I imagine he was still getting set up when Calhoun dropped the knee on Cannon.
@@KaijuEigaMan88 Would watch Superstars with my folks on TV in Sudbury,Ontario Canada. Louis Martinez would come out and save a jobber from the vicious Sailor White. My mom would start cheering for Martinez. Good times.
Ya it was the same for me with Crusher Jerry Blackwell. Unlike these two fat asses though Jerry Blackwell could bump and do a standing drop kick. I just never realized he was such a out of shape slob when I was a kid
Bruce Hauge dude, he would carry calves around and take 100 lb bales of hay and toss them around like they were paperweights. He would have destroyed you, you inbecile.
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When I was ten years old I met Haystacks Calhoun at Maple Leaf Gardens. He towered over me like a building. He shook my hand or rather he took my hand and engulfed it. He was the biggest person I had ever seen and he is still the biggest person I've ever met. It was almost fifty years ago but I remember it like it was yesterday.
I had the same sense of awe meeting Ernie Ladd . Jesus he was bigger than he looked of TV , which is pretty damned big
What I love about this clip is Calhoun was a FACE almost the entirety of his career and Cannon was a HEEL most of his.
Crybaby Cannon
Thank you for uploading. When I was younger I would always watch Superstars of Wrestling. Got to the TV late when this episode was on, so I never saw this part. I tuned in late when Milt Avruskin was doing the solo commentary. He said that George Cannon had been taken to the hospital after Haystack Calhoun came down with a knee instead of a splash. I can't believe that after 36 years I am finally seeing this part of the episode. Thanks so much.
You're kindly welcome! I wish I had the part you describe with Avruskin talking about Cannon going to the hospital. Do you recall what other wrestlers and/or matches you saw on this episode? Please check out some of the other Superstars matches/shows I've posted. Hope they rekindle some great memories for you as this one did!
I don't recall other wrestlers or matches from that episode, but I do recall some of the lead up to that feud. In a post match interview on an earlier episode, Calhoun told Cannon that he only wins matches because he just wrestles the little guys, I think Calhoun said something like you just wrestle the "little bitty guys". Calhoun also argued with Cannon over who was the first of the two to use the Big Splash. Calhoun said he was first, but Cannon responded by saying that when Calhoun first used the move he called it the Pancake, not the Big Splash. I will definitely check out the other videos.
@@KaijuEigaMan88 Really appreciate these. Some of the names I remember are Freddy Blassie, Mil Mascaras, Kenji Shabuya ("I very smart" lol). John Tolos, "Killer" Buddy Austin.
I am sure I am not spelling some of these names right. But nice memories watching these with my dad who was a fan.
I also remember much earlier Crybaby Cannon matches where when he got hit he would just start crying in the middle of the ring. So silly but so much fun. Lol.
I remember watching this on tv as a kid and seeing those 2 guys matches when they toured the province. About 1000 pounds between the 2 of them. Bobo Brazil, , Edward Carpentier, Sailor White and Hartford Love were some of the others on their shows. How the wrestling business has changed over the last 40 years...and not for the better in many ways.
I liked Sailor White
@@rickrick5041 Sailor was intimidating like Abdullah the Butcher and original Sheik. Me and my folks loved watching Superstars of Wrestling in Sudbury,Ontario Canada.
@@wheelman1235 Bobo Brazil v Hans Schmidt was thrilling
This was the first I had ever Seen George Cannon as a Face and Haystacks Calhoun as a Heel VERY INTERESTING
On Maple Leaf Wrestling Crybaby Cannon has always Managed the Kangaroos!
That is the first time I have ever seen haystacks Calhoun as a heel .
@brucesturton8521....Watching this video clip I can see of how fake Pro-Wrestling always was!
@@DamonTsekos the first time I ever watched wrestling, November 1970 , right after it was over my dad told me it was fake.but , the point I am making is haystack was always a baby face till this clip.
@@brucesturton8521....The wrestlers are actors first!..It's all make believe, and the wrestlers have a word for it!...It's called Kayfabe!...I bet in real life George Cannon, and Haystacks Calhoun were the best of friends, the same way Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan were!...I used to love Pro Wrestling!..That was before the Internet! Now because of it everything comes out in the open!...Now I don't waste any money and time on it!...I prefer to watch UFC instead where it is very real.....For now!
It is Canada cannons home. The wrestled in the 50s 60s and 70s with haystacks as face and cannon as heel now they are continuing their rivalry in cannons home country with the roles reversed.
@@jeffboone7959 haystacks was only in superstars of wrestling for a very short time. Cannon was a face only for his promotion.
very cool seeing old Haystacks as the heel...
It looks like Haystacks really gave it to Crybaby pretty good, and gave him more than he bargained for. I never knew Haystacks could dish out that kind of ruthless punishment to a defenseless man! This was a classic beat down!
The way Haystacks was moving there with such speed and grace, I thought it was AJ Styles at first but he just gained a few lbs.
Michael Kaminski Yeah for a moment I thought I was watching 205 Live!
Funny shit. Haystacks was just a donut over 250lbs. LMFAO
Haystacks Calhoun would destroy AJ Styles.
That was the weakest splash in wrestling history
Right on! I was waiting for him to deliver a "Phenomenal Forearm"!
Haystacks with that -4 inch vertical!
I never knew Calhoun was a heel
The guy in the very end with the blond buzz cut looks bad ass who is he? Looks like Swede Hanson
This was a few months before Haystacks hung up the o'l Horseshoe for good he retired that same year 1980 from the WWWF due to his Diabetes and being just worn out after almost 25 yrs in the business😢😢😢
Crybaby Cannon was the promoter in the Detroit/Windsor area when I was a kid and first got into wrestling. Used to watch him huckster the shows at Joe Louis and Cobo arenas on Maple Leaf Wrestling (channel 9 CBC) every Sunday morning.
I saw Superstars in Sudbury, Ontario Canada. Good times.
He looks like he could be Tyrus‘s father.
@@chrisconley8583 oh wow! He totally does! 😅
Stuff like this makes me appreciate big guys like John Tenta, Vader and Yokazuna a lot more. They moved like lightning compared to this guy.
Tenta is criminally underrated.
My faith in humanity is challenged. Haystacks Calhoun a heel!!
Great upload only got read about haystack thanks
George "Crybaby" Cannon got his. Go Haystack Balloons!
what a great match.....
First time I saw calhoun as a heel since the 60,s
Haystacks never lifted weights but he lifted cows and horses and 2 to 300 lb Haystacks. Haystacks Calhoun as a heel?. I know he didn't stay a heel for long. He always loved the cheers from the fans all over the world.
Phenomenal work
Back in the day when completely out of shape wrestlers who really couldn't work can get marquee attention
I feel like I was born in the wrong time.
Oh yeah the complete shits
"I've left a trail of broken bones. Not chicken bones, I mean RIBS! Honey smoked ribs!"😃
The Juan Atomz Universe 😄😄😄😄
Cannon and Haystacks, the original "High Flyers".
What territory / wrestling company is this
Superstars of Wrestling. George Cannon ran this promotion from 1975 to 1984, doing shows in Ontario, Quebec, Newfoundland, Michigan, and Ohio.
@@KaijuEigaMan88 thanks for the info 👍
Did he say "The millions of viewers " ? I watched this shit growing up in Detroit
Me too,good old Channel 62. I remember when Cannon would do the local promo's during the commercial times and lie about popular wrestlers from AWA, NWA and WWF And how they were going to be on his next show,and how to write fan mail to them at WGPR. Then you would tune in and see sailor white and a out of shape guy with a mask on being passed off as mil mascaras
I like this video.
great stuff
Make Crusher Blackwell the referee.
Ya but at least Jerry could drop kick
Wow, Avruskin really missed calling the dastardly knee. Kind of killed the drama there.
dynamo805 Avruskin was on his way back to the commentary booth after flipping the coin, so I imagine he was still getting set up when Calhoun dropped the knee on Cannon.
I remember George cannon in the Detroit Big Time wrestling promotion
Detroit wrestling at Cobo was great.
Haystacks invented the dropkick.
And I'm going to be the pilot on the next shuttle mission!
So athletic😎
Calhoun got paid $85
This had to be at the very end of Haystacks career....
Alot of Stiff Shots delivered here by Calhoun .
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George was actually a Canadian, that's why he was sticking up for the goofy Newfies.
George was born in Montreal, to be even more specific. Superstars ran Newfoundland regularly.
@@KaijuEigaMan88 Would watch Superstars with my folks on TV in Sudbury,Ontario Canada. Louis Martinez would come out and save a jobber from the vicious Sailor White. My mom would start cheering for Martinez. Good times.
Calhoun being dirty...? WTF...??? LOL
They should have had an eating contest. Would have been more exciting
Does it get anymore rinky dink than this??
Now they are the average Walmart shopper
Knee splash!
the splash is so bad, really bad....
I jump into bed harder than that
I did my first splash last week, way better than his, but he had 100 lbs on me...
I certainly hope George started crying.
George "Mallcop" Cannon
3:55... Calhouns ass vs Cannons gut .. lights out !
When I was a kid, I thought Haystacks was such a monster. Watching this now as a 50-something...he was just fat and slow (kinda like me).
Ya it was the same for me with Crusher Jerry Blackwell. Unlike these two fat asses though Jerry Blackwell could bump and do a standing drop kick. I just never realized he was such a out of shape slob when I was a kid
IT
Cannon looks like hes a waiter
Haystack probably could never bench press 150 lbs in his life.
Bruce Hauge dude, he would carry calves around and take 100 lb bales of hay and toss them around like they were paperweights. He would have destroyed you, you inbecile.
Believe he was stronger than that .
the end of carnie wrestling,,too slow,too fake over night this all changed
awful...
Pretty Lame
That was terrible
The drizzlin' sh@ts